Wednesday, August 08, 2007

DSL August Read: Gwen's Pick


Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South by Roy Blount, Jr.

It won my heart on page 198: "My goal in life is to make some tiny headway toward lifting from Southerners some tiny bit of the burden of having to prove that we are being tongue in cheek. For Southerners, the price of irony is eternal vigilance."