On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:10:44 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
wrote:

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>"blake murphy" > wrote in message
.. .
>>>> On Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:33:57a, Christine Dabney told us...
>>>>
>>>> > Heya folks,
>>>> >
>>>> > I am up late at night again, reading food blogs. And I just found
>>>> > this essay...
>>>> >
>>>> > This is an undiscovered til now essay by the late great Edna
>>>> > Lewis...sent to Gourmet Magazine and just published. This really
>>>> > resonates with me, and I post the link here for all you other
>>>> > southerners and would-be southerners...
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000...southern_lewis
>>>> >
>>>> > Christine
>>>> >
>>
>> not exactly on topic, but i would enthusiastically recommend to any
>> student of the south the writings of florence king:
>>
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Failed-Southern-Lady-Florence/dp/0312050631/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201120640&sr= 8-4>
>>
>> or for an omnibus, 'the florence king reader':
>>
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Florence-King-Reader/dp/0312143370/ref=pd_bbs_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201120640&sr=8-7>
>>
>> very, very funny lady, though she qualifies as a right-winger. an
>> excellent prose stylist as well. a quote: 'no matter which sex i
>> slept with, i never smoked in the street.'
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
>
>I haven't heard anyone mention her name in years. I read her first few
>books, and I believe she used to have an article at the end of a magazine.
>I know that I did like her years ago and DH and I had some good laughs out
>of her writings. I can't remember much about her politics; just mores.
>
>Dee Dee
>

she wrote the 'misanthrope's corner' column for many years in the
*national review*, william f. buckley's magazine.

unlike most political polemicists of any stripe, she was pretty funny.

your pal,
blake