In the late eighties, a Savannahian pulled the visiting journalist John Berendt aside. “As far as Savannah is concerned,” she told him, “being a writer and being from New York is a deadly combination.”
“I understand,” he replied. “But I have no intention of being secretive. I will let everyone know I’m writing a book.”
That 1994 nonfiction work, , which is now in the works, and the current publisher (Vintage Knopf Doubleday) recently released an anniversary edition that includes a new afterword by Berendt, who is now the book’s sole living major character.
