![]() ![]() You can talk to somebody for 60 seconds and you may be hearing about a divorce." In the South, anything can be upfront immediately. "Politeness, for a stranger coming in to find a conversation, can be difficult. "They're polite," he says of Northerners. Moreso, he believes, than if he'd started in a colder climate. He started there because of the weather, but the culture around storytelling in that part of the country helped him get off on the right foot. ![]() His stroke of luck, as he now sees it, was starting in the South. ![]() The trip itself was invigorating, and the book's enormous success reset his life completely. He remembers waking up every morning for the entire three months thinking not only I can't believe I'm really doing this, but also I can't believe that it's working, that I can just walk into these places and people just start talking about their lives.īy 1982, the resulting book, Blue Highways, hit the top of the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for 42 weeks. "What an exciting thing it was," he says, now a wizened 77-year-old man with a full head of gray hair. ![]()
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