"Being raised in rural Mississippi can come with its traumas, but it also gave me a unique specificity and sensory experience that informs so much of how I see and interact with the world."
This was such a pleasure to read, start to finish. I particularly love your descriptions of the natural world: "Right now, home is writing and drinking coffee at 4:30 in the morning as the robins, cardinals, mockingbirds, chickadees, and mourning doves make a racket in our backyard and this neck of the world shakes itself awake." And "Can still hear the horse apples drop from the bodock tree like the thundering fists of an angry, evangelical god against the tin roofs of homemade bird coops" - yes!
Nice read. As someone who "can be a bit of a misanthrope" myself and lives much of my life like the back of a Prince album cover, it will be interesting to see how much of Busby's misanthropic self or perspective manifests in Bodock.
This was such a pleasure to read, start to finish. I particularly love your descriptions of the natural world: "Right now, home is writing and drinking coffee at 4:30 in the morning as the robins, cardinals, mockingbirds, chickadees, and mourning doves make a racket in our backyard and this neck of the world shakes itself awake." And "Can still hear the horse apples drop from the bodock tree like the thundering fists of an angry, evangelical god against the tin roofs of homemade bird coops" - yes!
Nice read. As someone who "can be a bit of a misanthrope" myself and lives much of my life like the back of a Prince album cover, it will be interesting to see how much of Busby's misanthropic self or perspective manifests in Bodock.