
514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer
The History of Literature
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The Southern Gothic: A Critique of Society Writ Large
I like having him as both the very absent father sort of this main drunk and someone who likes yeah cares but just is too tired to try to fix the problems that are in it. And so I keep him as that sort of character to return to to sort of ask these questions of well why do things have to be the way that they are. Do you see any room for hope? Do yousee any way forward or or any solution or are you in the tradition of diagnosing the problem and exposing that? You know there's symptoms and then there's cures.
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