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Eudora welty interview3/18/2024 ![]() ![]() And I started thinking about how the way we imagine places to be and how they actually appear to us are influenced so strongly by the stories we know about those places, and the people who crafted those stories. ![]() What really sparked the idea was a visit to Eudora Welty’s house, where a number of Welty devotees had reconstructed her back garden according to passages from her letters and fiction. I had always associated the physical place with the work of those Southern literary giants like Wright and Welty. Margaret Eby: I grew up in Alabama immersed in Southern literature-I mean, we were reading Faulkner in middle school-and it took me a while to realize that this wasn’t par for the course. ![]() What inspired this topic, and what inspired you to explore it in this medium? Lauren Friedlander: South Toward Home is an exploration (physically as well as philosophically) of the history of southern writing. With a critical eye and expansive knowledge of literature below the Mason-Dixon line, she set out to explore her heritage in her book South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature. In this exclusive interview, we ask Margaret what she learned, and how it’s changed her perspective. Journalist and critic Margaret Eby is no Southern belle-at least not in the traditional sense. ![]()
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