Do You Know The Way To San Jose?: A Southern Writer and a Town ...

So 25 years later, on a cold February morning, I found myself standing in the lobby of a hotel with tables of books and the local hoi palloi all in anticipatory fervor over the expected catered lunch and an hour or two of readings by a few literary ... The drinking age was a year younger in NY than it was in CT. And then you white kids would drive home drunk and get yourselves killed on the Merritt Parkway. ” I nodded and put his book down in front of him to sign for me. ...