ZZ Packer's Edition Of Southern Stories Straddles Old And New Dixie →
In her introduction to ”New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2008,” ZZ Packer, co-editor of the collection, calls the American South “a land of contrasts.” “There’s the sweet tea, and the bourbon, and the mint juleps,” she writes. “But there’s also the low-brow Rally’s and Checkers and White Castles.” Indeed, it’s true that Dixie contains multitudes: The South, which includes the Ozarks and the Outer Banks, the Pisgah and the Piedmont, has given us Ralph Stanley and R.E.M., Ludacris and Little Richard.
