The Great American Road Trip

Destination: Mississippi

Author: William Faulkner

THE CORN SHUCKER’S COUNTRY

A Guest Post by Paul William Kaser

To understand the world you must first understand a place like Mississippi. William Faulkner

Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha (the name is borrowed from a real stream in Layfette County, Mississippi), is a fictional county that may be more real to millions of readers than any place they have actually visited.

Yankee travelers hoping to rediscover, or redeem, William Faulkner’s South may miss the whole point if they look only at his handwriting on the wall of Rowan Oak house, or the Nobel Prize enshrined in the J. D. Williams Library at Ol’ Miss, or the Sartoris-like statue of Great- grandpa William C. Falkner (sic) in Ripley Cemetery, or the fine collection of Square Books in Oxford. Though they can learn much in these places, the essential truth of the Faulkner’s eloquent creation must be heard in the living voices of Faulkner’s neighbors.

Everything comes; the people, the place, the story, and you just act like the fella feeding the corn shucker. — Ltr to Stephen Longstreet

Since I was a Yankee devourer of Faulkner’s tales, like the macabre A Rose for Emily, the brutal As I Lay Dying and Barn Burning, the hilarious Spotted Horses and many others, when I first visited Oxford and Old Miss three decades ago, my mind was haunted by those rambling, elegant sentences that rolled along like caravans of cotton wagons on meandering Southern roads. I thought I had the rhythm and full understanding of the place, but I didn’t get close to the truth until I went there and listened to the subdued voices of the people who had personally known the writer or had grown up with those who did.

He was a quiet hunter. an Oxford neighbor

Faulkner knew deeply that it little matters whether a foreign government decides to give you the greatest literary prize in the world, presented by the King no less, if you are not respected by the folks back in your own Yoknapatawpha County. He knew who he was because he knew so intimately the place from which he had emerged and which could never really leave.

When a friend was asked about his memories of the world-famed writer, he answered, “He was a quiet hunter.” That is what mattered in that time and place, and it must have mattered greatly to Faulkner to be remembered in that way.

My wife and I took our boys, then five and seven years and appropriately restless with all the chatter about the past, to a local restaurant owned by a woman who had been acquainted with the writer. She told us, “I thought he was okay. Lived up there with some freeloading relatives and wrote a lot.”

“What did you think when he won the Nobel Prize?” I asked.

“Then we guessed he was probably a pretty fair writer. Anyway I think he was okay as a neighbor. He let my kids play around the old house [Rowan Oak], and he never yelled at them.” With an understanding smile, she glanced at our kids, who were trying to help themselves to the offerings of the pie case.

What finally counts, then, as Faulkner revealed in so many of his stories, is not gaining the adoration of the greater world but winning the simple respect of your neighbors.

Nevertheless, “Bill” Faulkner, who both loved and chided the South, chided especially in regards to its racial history, did not always win the unqualified praise of his fellow Southerners. Despite this, he once said that in a war between the U.S. and his state, he would, like his ancestors, fight for his state. I told a student-guide from Ole Miss at Rowan Oak house that this was hard for a lot of people to understand. “It wouldn’t be hard to understand if you were born and raised in Mississippi,” he answered unapologetically –perhaps a little scornfully.

I don’t think anyone did more for this particular region. He showed us how to make literature from these materials. Robert Penn Warren

But did William Faulkner make Yoknapatawpha County or did it make him? The answer lies in the living voices of memory from Mississippi today. It’s worth a listen.

Paul Kaser

Paul Kaser lectures about literature and film (or movies to his less pretension audiences) after retiring from a long and distinguished career as a college teacher in California. Not a little of his love of Faulkner shows in his novel How Jerem Came Home, which is well worth looking up at an on-line used-book store. It pays tribute to a county in Ohio. Although he tries to disguise it as West Virginia, everybody from Killbuck knows the truth.

If you have any questions about Faulkner, you’ll have to address them to Paul, since I gave up wrestling with Bill Faulkner long ago. It was swell of Paul to drop by and raise the standards of writing here a A Traveler’s Library, and I am very grateful.

And don’t forget to check Music Road to see what travelin’ music Kerry Dexter has on tap for our road trip to Mississippi.

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Destination: England

Book: Lady Vernon and her Daughter, by Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Today we will be lured to England, with the reminder that today is the birthday of Miss Jane Austen.

What would Jane think? say? do? has much occupied the minds of a mother and daughter, who, when not searching for the perfect husband (comely, wealthy, and amusing) for the latter, have been enlarging upon a short piece of fiction left unfinished by Miss Austen.

They base the faux Jane Austen novel,Lady Vernon and Her Daughter: A Novel of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, on a short and rather unsatisfactory novel by Austen called Lady Susan.

Jane Rubino has written a series of mysteries set in New Jersey and also fleshed out a Sherlock Holmes collection of tales merely mentioned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in Knight Errant. So I began by asking if her idea of riffing on Jane Austen came from her experience with duplicating Conan Doyle’s style.

Authors Jane Rubino and Her Daughter, Caitlen

Jane: No. It really came out of the mystery series set in New Jesey. Austen is  the last name of my detective—a rabid Austen fanatic—and she has a daughter named Jane Austen.

I was going to write historical fiction using the characters in the story (Lady Susan).  I invited Cait and we talked about it together and started to write a few chapters. But then we thought we wouldn’t do justice to it to do it as history. We then started writing in the style of Austen. It started more as a historical mystery. (They originally focused on the suspicious death of Susan’s husband, but eventually downplayed that.)

ATL:  When did you start reading her novels?

Caitlen: Actually, a little too young to appreciate it. I really got into it in college. I took an intensive Austen seminar. (But) I first read Pride and Prejudice when I was 10 or 11. You don’t appreciate the nuance at that age, but I was reading way above my level.

ATL: Do the characters resemble your mother- daughter relationship in any way?

Caitlen: I think they do in that we get along, and I was shy when I was younger.

Jane: Every mother does have the anxiety about finding the right husband to live up to their standards. In the original she (Lady Susan Vernon) is not very maternal (very cool). We adapted the story and brought it more into Jane Austen’s genre. The focus is on the need to marry well.

ATL: The original is totally composed of letters. Your novel contains letters, but is a standard novel. Did you use the letters ‘as is’ from Lady Susan in Lady Vernon and Her Daughter?

Jane:  We used some letters as is. We used some where we changed the writer. For instance I remember we changed from Lady Susan to Eliza.

Caitlen: We switched from letters sometimes.  When we couldn’t use them as letters, we changed the lines to dialogue or exposition.

ATL: What  literature might have ever  inspired you to travel?

Jane: To be frank, I do not have a passport. I have traveled to the Caribbean and to Canada and across the country—it is a beautiful country. I love South Florida, the Carolinas, and coastal Georgia. When I saw (the movie) “Enchanted in April,” it made me want to see (Italy) in person, but I was almost afraid to go because it wouldn’t be as beautiful (as it was in the movie).

Caitlen: I read Austen or Bronte and I think I would love to go to England. I like to read food and wine books. Bacchus and Me: Wine country in Oregon.

We parted company at this point and I retired to the library to read Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, (which was sent to me by the publisher for review). I can highly recommend it to the lover of Austen and to the traveler to England. The writing is worthy of Jane Austen, with sly humor on every page and as many quotable lines as Miss Austen herself might have penned. And as a side light, their web site is equally amusing, Janetility.

You can see a wonderful book trailer for Lady Vernon and her Daughter at Amazon.

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Destination: France

Books: As They Were and Long Ago In France by M. F. K. Fisher

I could list many more books by Fisher above, but these two just happen to be on hand at the moment.

One summer a long time ago we were spending some lazy time on the beach in California and I wandered down a little street in some lovely seaside town and stumbled upon a wonderful book store. Not knowing then that I would be writing about it now, I did not bother to write down its name, but it was one of those wonderful multi-roomed cottages filled with a jumble of books and a pretty little garden of unruly zinnias and roses  in front and out back.

There I discovered a shelf of books about food and living in France and in California,  by a writer I had never heard of before. I bought two or three of the books for reading on the beach and Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher(1908-1992) became one of my favorite writers.  I love food. I love to prepare it, to eat it, and to read about it. So does Fisher, but her sense of food is so much more educated and refined than mine will ever be that I will never stop learning from her.

Not only that, but her writing is inspiring, as well. [amazonify]0394713486::text:::: As They Were [/amazonify] (1985) contains a collection of essays and articles that she published throughout her career, and she tied them together with introductions telling a bit about her life. I love them all, but one stands out. In, “I Was Really Very Hungry,” she is walking in northern Burgundy, and stops in mid day at the country restaurant of a famous chef, empty except for the serving woman. “…who was frightenly fanatical about food, like a medieval woman possessed by the devil.”

Course after course comes out, lovingly described by the waitress as it is served, until  ” ‘You may feel you have eaten too much.’ (the waitress said)  I nodded idiotic agreement. ‘But this pastry is like feathers…it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! And why?’….’Because Monsieur Paul did not even open the flour bin until he saw you coming!’”

In all of her work, she draws characters with precise recall of dialogue and with sharp observation and apt metaphor. It helps to understand how she developed such skill  to read about her beginnings as an expert on food and writing.

In[amazonify]0671755145::text:::: Long Ago In France: The Years in Dijon [/amazonify](1991), Fisher was young. It was 1929 and she was 21, newly married, and studying to be an artist. While her husband attended graduate school in Dijon, she went to art classes.  But always she kept a journal and she learned by observing and experimenting not only to speak French, but to appreciate wine and good food.

After a year in a boarding house, she and her husband moved into their own apartment. There she began to learn to cook and shop for food. “butter here, sausage there, bananas someplace again, and rice and sugar and coffee in still other places.”

“We ate well, too.  It was the first real day-to-day meal-after-meal cooking I had ever done, and it was only a little less complicated than performing an appendectomy on a life raft…it was fun.”

She decided writing was effortless and fun compared to painting, and published her first book on food Serve It Forth in 1937. Besides the book on Dijon, she wrote about living in Province– Arles, Avignon, and Marseille both before and after  World War II. And if you are traveling on the coast of California, Fisher can paint pictures of that land for you as well.

Click on the photograph to go to the Flickr source and get the bonus of a recipe for Pain d’Epice of Dijon. And remember that you can always get more articles on France by looking at the page tab above ↑ that says “By Country” or by typing “France” in the search box over there →.

And it will be France on Friday at A Traveler’s Library. Last week it was Hemingway in Paris.

Is there a food writer that makes you want to go somewhere? Please share in our comment section.

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Greek Bell Ringer on Siphnos, Greece

Destination: Greece

A Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou

This is a new soft-cover book, only read by me, no marks. A novel that might well be a memoir of the childhood of the son of a very important political family in Greece and how the ups and downs of politics affects the family’s everyday life.  Good details of Greek culture in this poetically written book.  Discussed here very recently– on July 29.

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Destinations: Spain and France

Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Happy Birthday Ernie! Ernest Hemingway was born 110 years ago on July 21. It seems appropriate to celebrate by talking about his first break-through novel,The Sun Also Rises which turns out to be a pretty good travel book.

From dissipated ennui in Paris to dissipated blood sport in Spain, The Sun Also Rises follows a group of world-weary drunks from Paris to Pamplona.  Excuse me if I sound disrespectful to the life lived by this particular group of ex-pats, but is is very difficult to imagine how the venerated members of the Lost Generation ever got any writing and painting done, awash in liquor in numberless bars. (See more plus more photos, or leave comments on the next page)

I thought that I had read this book before, but if I did read it in my college days, it slipped out of my memory, so I approached it recently with a new eye. As usual when I talk about books here, I did not do any research on what I am supposed to think about the book. My criteria for A Traveler’s Library is simple. Does it make me want to go somewhere?

First, Hemingway’s craftsmanship in the Sun Also Rises is magnificent.  I don’t have to tell you that, since a college professor already told you some time ago.  Second, I can’t wait to get to Paris and follow in Jake Barne’s footsteps–even if I don’t care to drink myself into a stupor every night or play a game of musical men like the impossibly beautiful boy-magnet Lady Brett. (Jake, of course, is the newspaper reporter stand-in for E.H.)

Third, I stand in awe of the way that Hemingway makes me SEE the countryside of southern France and northern Spain. Particularly since the prose uses line drawings rather than relying on lush adjectival brushstrokes.  His is language to study.

This book serves the traveler well.  From cultural differences:

“You can never tell if a Spanish waiter will thank you.  Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in.  No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason.” AND “They were all French and Belgians and paid close attention to their meal, but they were having a good time.”

Paris bridge

Or snapshots of places:

Paris–”Crossing the Seine I saw a string of barges being towed empty down the current, riding high, the bargemen at the sweeps as they came toward the bridge. The river looked nice.  It was always pleasant crossing bridges in Paris.”

Bayonne–”Cohn made some remark about it being a very good example of something or other.  I forget what.  It seemed like a nice cathedral, nice and dim, like Spanish churches.”

I found page after page of these pure and simple descriptions of place that made me recall the Spanish countryside and yearn to see Paris.  When Ken and I were in Spain we avoided the bull ring. I never went to the bull fights held in nearby Nogales when I first moved to Tucson.

People said that you must see a bullfight to understand Spain. And I believed that came from Ernest Hemingway. But that is not entirely his point of view.

Before I read the book, I thought he emphasized the bull fight to the exclusion of everything else, but looking at the book, I see that pastoral scenes, and particularly the religous nature of Spain and the intensity of the fiesta shares the spotlight.

Finally, I had that tingle of recognition that you get when you have shared an experience with a famous novelist–or at least a character in a novel.  Jake/Ernie and I both/all ate suckling pig at the ancient Botin restaurant in Madrid.

Botin Restaurant, Madrid

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Book cover by “Grave-Digger”;Paris Bridge by “jgrimm”; Botin by Tym Altman, photos from Flickr under Creative Commons license.

More about Spain: Driving Over Lemons, Don Quixote, The AlhambraMore about France:Paris in the Moon, A Sweet Life in Paris, Victor Hugo

Have you seen a bullfight? In your opinion, how important is bullfighting to the understanding of Spain? Let’s talk.  (And have you subscribed by e-mail or RSS feed yet so that we can continue the conversation?)

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ABE (American Book Exchange) stocks all those out-of-print, used, and collector’s editions books that are hard to find elsewhere. So this is a fun place to browse. However, they also have one of the pithiest and most entertaining blogs I have seen anywhere. Most expensive books, most surprising, updates on book awards– it is all here.

Bookstores tells you where you can find bookstores abroad to feed your reading habit while you are traveling. This is a recent addition to my blogroll, after I landed on it while exploring another blog. A wonderful recent post talks about leading book fairs in Europe. I’m a little afraid of visiting a place that offers 7000 publishers in one place, as Frankfurt does. I might have a total reading addict meltdown.

Writers and Editors Pat McNees provides a home on the Internet where writers and editors can connect. This site has links to anything you can think of that has to do with books and publishing.

Where do YOU like to get news about book publishing?  Please share your information in the comments section. We’re listening.

And if you are looking for more good stuff to read at A Traveler’s Library, here’s a good place to start: 10 Posts from First 100.

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VMB in Kastro, Sifnos Island, Greece

Yesterday A Traveler’s Library hit one of those landmark days, and I was not even here to celebrate. (I’m in New Orleans ensconced in my favorite hotel, Hotel Monteleone.)

Ta-Da–100 Posts!

Somehow, it seems appropriate, though, that I had a guest post on India here yesterday, because it is symbolic of the ways this blog has introduced me to people, places and books to read for travel.  I might not have met Sue Dickman, yesterday’s guest poster,  had it not been for the 30-day challenge started by Michelle Rafter.

I certainly would not have had much to say about India, since I have not been there myself.  But by using guest experts, A Traveler’s Library roams beyond the  destinations that I have traveled to personally. We have had guests posts on New England, Croatia, Mumbai, and now India again.

And I met the nice folks at Wandering Educators, who invited me to be the Traveler’s Library Editor. I wrote their earlier this month about popular posts from April at A Traveler’s Library.

In the first 100 posts, we have traveled to an amazing 53 different places! I hope you’ll join me as we travel to more places and learn about more great books in the 2nd hundred posts.

TEN random selections from the First Hundred:

• Post Number One: 3 Civilizations, 4 Museums and the Morality of Collecting. A book with an important message. And you can join my favorite cause to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, if you agree.
• Post Number Three: 4 Thrillers to Inaugurate Your D. C. Tour Don’t wait for the next inauguration to go to Washington, D.C., read Baldacci.
• Post Number Nine: Secrets of the Alhambra. A favorite destination and a great book.
• Post Number Twenty: Most Romantic Destination. My contribution to Valentine’s Day.
• Post Number Twenty-Nine:Victor Hugo and Paris. My brother, who is always right, recommended The Hunchback of Notre Dame as a guidebook for Paris.
  
• Post Number Thirty: Crete and History. Another favorite, and I love the books because I found them in Crete.
• Post Number Forty: Nice Movie to See, But Do I Want To Go There? This post about the movie Slumdog Millionaire received the most viewers and the most comments.
• Post Number Forty-One: The Don’t Even Go There Book. I think this post got lost in the hoopla about Slumdog Millionaire, but The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is one of the best I have read in years.
• Post Number Fifty: Listening a Book While You Travel This one struck a nerve with travelers who like audio books.
• Post Number Fifty-Eight: 5 Road Trip Books and The List I love road trips, and although I am wary of “best” lists, gave in this once because the 5 best American road trip books seem pretty obvious.
  

Onward toward that First Year celebration  January 10, 2010!

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Roman Forum evening shadows

Destination: Rome

Books: The Masters of Rome Series by Collen McCullough

It seems to me that is essential to have some understanding of ancient Rome if you are going to travel to today’s Rome. All those piles of rock and bits of arches in the forum, with the magnificent hulk of the Coliseum watching over it all look a lot less confusing if you know something about the daily life of the Romans at the pinnacle of the Roman Empire.

I imagine that I see togaed figures reclining on benches in the baths, or scurrying around from shop to shop trying to strike a good bargain so they can afford all those splendid mosaics in the courtyard of the summer place down at Herculaeum.

Colleen McCullough’s book are just the time ticket you need to get a look at Roman life among the wealthy, and a few hints about the life of other people in the Roman Empire also.  Like every period of history, when I imagine myself in a far distant time, I pick a good stratum of society. Wouldn’t you love to have lived in Renaissance Italy? Well, as a noble, or at least high merchant class, not as a peasant. With my love of Greece, I daydream about living in Athens in the 5th century B.C. However, not as a slave, of course. Although some scholars claim that all women were treated pretty much as slaves, others say the mothers and managers of households were revered.  And in the Roman Empire, I am the wife of a Senator (at least–if not a Caesar.) And as in Greece, the female role of courtesan sounds pretty cushy.

Back to the point. McCullough wrote seven books based on life in Rome.  The First Man in Rome started the series, and while I enjoyed it, I found it had almost too much detail. There are Roman experts who quibble with her history, although for a novelist, she did a mighty fine pile of research, in my opinion.

So dramatic was ancient Rome that many fiction books exist based on the real history. A web page devoted to such books,  Fictional Rome, contains a page on Colleen McCullough. If you love Rome, or love ancient history, you’ll be trapped and find it difficult to emerge.  Try to get out by tomorrow when we talk about the movie Angels and Demons, which looks at ecclesiastical Rome rather than ancient Rome, but provides a heck of a travelogue along the way.

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We have  spent this week  at A Traveler’s Library focused on Italy. Do you like several days of focus on one country? Or would you rather mix things up and have a different destination each day? Let me know, because I’m planning a celebration of the opening of the Greek’s New Acropolis Museum in June. One day or several?

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The Coliseum, Rome

Destination: Italy

Book: Italy out of Hand, A Capricious Tour by Barbara Hodgson

We are about to spend a whole week in Italy. Virtual Italy that is–through books.

Why?  Because Americans love to go to Italy? Because plenty of  literature exists to introduce us to Italy? Because several book s on Italy sit on my library shelves?  Well, all of the above and one more.  At the end of this week, the predictably block-buster movie, Angels and Demons opens. I read the book long enough ago, that I have forgotten many of the details. I felt it was insubstantial, error-ridden and found it easy to solve the puzzle. But that does not stop me from being enthusiastic about the movie. I kind of like “shallow” in my movies.

Once you have seen the glorious locations in the city of Rome, you will cancel plans to visit Aunt Susie in Columbus, Ohio, and instead book the first plane to Italy. (Unless, of course you are one of my many Twitter buddies who have the good fortune to already BE in Italy.)

We start with the book the dog ate.  Really, the resident pooch loved Italy Out of Hand so much that he chewed up the cover and the corners of some pages. Being a dog of impeccable taste, he picked Florence.  However the words inside the book remain intact. And what words.

It is too bad that he ate the cover, because this book falls into that rarely published category of really attractively packaged words. Gold embossed words on the cover, lush with pictures in sepia, color or black and white.  Author Barbara Hodgson dwells on details–some serious, some quite mad–just like the country.  Her attention to detail is such that even the books typeface brings up a little story about a long-forgotten Italian.

Hodgson says “Exploring minutiae is a means of confronting a country that is too intricate and too inexplicable to tackle head on.” I’m sure that any travel writer who has tried capturing Italy, or even a part of it, is nodding in agreement.

Although I’m generally very methodical in my front to back reading of a book, this book invites diversions. Since it is arranged geographically, I delved into Florence, Venice and Rome before I went there three years ago and for days all my sentences started with “Did you know…..” So don’t get me started. Just go read. Then travel.

And I sincerely hope your dog does not get ahold of your book.

I have written previously about books for the traveler’s library about Italy, Rome and Venice.

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Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete

Book Shelves

the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog.

Vatican Swiss Guard

• Then in May, we’ll (virtually) travel to Rome when the movie Angels and Demons premiers on the 15th. Will Rome reject the hoopla because the Vatican doesn’t care for the story, or will tourism soar?

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  Hotel Monteleone Entrance, photo comp. of Monteleone

  Next, I take a flight to New Orleans for the Wine and Food Festival at the Monteleone Hotel the 20-23 of May and  I will talk about some more books that belong in the Traveler’s Library for New Orleans. I may revisit the bookstores of New Orleans.

• Now, you see why I keep telling you that you should sign up for a subscription via RSS or e-mail. You don’t want to miss any of these fun discussions, and all the ones in between, do you?

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