Thinks Steve in the title story, as he himself skips church.) Yet these are not Faulkner's history-haunted revenants, and if they live in a temporary world of Big Macs and ''Battlestar Galactica,'' they do
(''It's surprising how many people skip church nowadays,'' Most of them are Baptists, and they take the old strictures seriously, even though they're hardly able to live by them. ''Midnight Magic'' is a selection of 17 stories drawn from ''Shiloh and Other Stories,'' the 1982 debutĬollection that made her a bright and sudden star, and its 1989 successor, ''Love Life.'' The book's characters live in the brave new world of strip malls and franchised food that is the New - or, rather, Yet this, perhaps, says less about the South than it does about Mason's conception of her characters.
Work that although she provides detailed and precise replies to Shreve's first two questions she has almost nothing to tell us about the other two. She doesn't present it as a place that needs explaining, and it is both the great strength and the great limitation of her Or have they? Bobbie Ann Mason takes her native Kentucky for granted. ''What's it like there? What do they do there? Why do they live there? Why do they live at all?'' Nearly all Southern writers since Faulkner's great Dixie Limited screamed down the tracks of American literature Y, May 13, 1991)Įll about the South,'' the Canadian Shreve McCannon says to the Mississippi-born Quentin Compson in Faulkner's ''Absalom, Absalom!'' Audio Feature: Bobbie Ann Mason Reads the Story 'With Jazz' (92nd St.The characters in Bobbie Ann Mason's stories have little desire to escape their tatty, throwaway world.
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