A slightly longer version of my Spartanburg Herald-Journal interview with John Lane is up at the Hub City Writers Project webpage. Mostly we’re talking about Best of the Kudzu Telegraph, which was released on September 8th.
Best of the Kudzu Telegraph, released in September by the Hub City Writers Project, gathers 48 of John Lane’s weekly columns for the Spartanburg Journal. His readers will recognize their favorite stories and themes and will surely be surprised by some of the “oddballs,” such as “Old Maps Tell Stories,” “The Battle for Sugar Tit,” and “Venison Tacos.”
In the columns gathered in the book, Lane talks about land use, sustainability, and urban planning. He also covers pawpaws, dead deer, and parting with his beloved old pick-up truck. Folks familiar with his books, such as the recent Circling Home, will recognize Lane’s bold honesty regarding all things local, as well as his deep and abiding love of Lawson’s Fork.
The book contains four dozen of the most enduring of Lane’s columns, yet when Lane and I spoke last week about the Kudzu Telegraph, the conversation quickly went to its origins, nearly ten years ago, as an electronic newsletter. A newsletter that was, as Lane said, “as much a conscious ‘activist’ activity as it was a writing project.”
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