History Repeats

The Southern travelogue constitutes its own subgenre of American lit. One reason, of course, is the sheer volume of writers who’ve documented their rambles through the South—a slew of journalists, plus litterateurs such as Henry Miller, James Agee, V. S. Naipaul, and more recently Paul Theroux. It’s as though writers interpret Shreve McCannon’s famous invocation in Faulkner’s !—“Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they