I’m working my way through Faulkner’s letters, and you get the occasional gem. In a an August, 1961 letter to his editor, “Hot as hell here, as usual. Now it’s 64 years I have said I’ll never spend another summer in Miss.”
After attending the annual Faulkner conference in July a couple of years ago, when it was 90+ every day, I am glad to know that even natives find the heat a bit much.
Erin
Alan Schmierer