Daniel Krotz

“From state to state, county to county, I breezed along, and this progress was a way of understanding how lucky I was, because the confinement that Southerners feel, their keen awareness of themselves as stereotypes—provincials and yokels, in literature, in life—is something palpable. No wonder, given the obliqueness of Southern fiction (and one way to know a place is through its writing)—the evasions, the jokes, the showy literary metaphors. No wonder the grotesque preponderance of the gothic and the freaks—the reality was too brutal to state baldly, unbearably so.”
― Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads