The lonely neighbors of William Faulkner
Nov 6 · 5 min read

Whatever you think of Mississippi, it’s probably not accurate. Not even that famous quote by William Faulkner is accurate: He supposedly once said, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”
I read that on an embroidered pillow a few years ago, when I was, very briefly, just for a weekend, the writer in residence at an old Colonial revival mansion in…

