are you sure about that? Literature from the South has been one of America's most successful cultural exports. It's the land of Faulkner, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Walker and many of the greats.
...Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCuller, Robert Penn Warren... the list is massive. I’m not sure the OP realizes how offensive they’re being by implying lower standards. If anything, they set the standard for american literature.
Delaware is considered a southern state by the Census? Weird! It seems to have more in common with the New Jersey and New York than, say, South Carolina. Is it just an arbitrary Mason Dixon thing?
by coincidence, I picked up this book for reading over lunch and it is a compelling story. I got about halfway through before forcing myself to put it down.
during college, Their Eyes were Watching God, by Hurston was required reading for one of my courses. but I never really knew much about her life or personality.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 37.1 ms ] threadNote, I am definitely not a southerner.
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during college, Their Eyes were Watching God, by Hurston was required reading for one of my courses. but I never really knew much about her life or personality.