Comments on: When Will You Be Available For Me to Pick Up My Hat? http://www.edrants.com/when-will-you-be-available-for-me-to-pick-up-my-hat/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Links and Things « Enter the Octopus http://www.edrants.com/when-will-you-be-available-for-me-to-pick-up-my-hat/comment-page-1/#comment-254175 Links and Things « Enter the Octopus Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:17:07 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=11212#comment-254175 [...] Great book excerpt on “Literary teas” [...] [...] Great book excerpt on “Literary teas” [...]

]]> By: Tim W. Brown http://www.edrants.com/when-will-you-be-available-for-me-to-pick-up-my-hat/comment-page-1/#comment-254168 Tim W. Brown Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:07:48 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=11212#comment-254168 I found today’s post about the Literary Tea hilarious. Thanks for sharing. You mentioned a forthcoming book based on WPA writers’ pieces about the country’s diet. A number of these pieces have in fact been collected. I recently read such a book by Pat Willard that appears to cover the same ground as Kurlansky’s. http://www.amazon.com/America-Eats-Supper-Socials-Chitlin/dp/1596916230/ As you may know, I’m working on a novel set in the 1930s and doing much research on the era. Indeed, one of the two protagonists is a WPA worker collecting folk music in the South. And, contra Kurlansky’s subtitle, there was a national highway system in place by the 1930s – US 61 was already a fabled thoroughfare due to Mississippi blues music and US 66 was the route many Okies took to California. Numerous diners and proto-fast-food joints lined these highways. Not sure what Kurlansky’s book brings to the, uh, table other than bestseller cache. I found today’s post about the Literary Tea hilarious. Thanks for sharing.

You mentioned a forthcoming book based on WPA writers’ pieces about the country’s diet. A number of these pieces have in fact been collected. I recently read such a book by Pat Willard that appears to cover the same ground as Kurlansky’s.

http://www.amazon.com/America-Eats-Supper-Socials-Chitlin/dp/1596916230/

As you may know, I’m working on a novel set in the 1930s and doing much research on the era. Indeed, one of the two protagonists is a WPA worker collecting folk music in the South. And, contra Kurlansky’s subtitle, there was a national highway system in place by the 1930s – US 61 was already a fabled thoroughfare due to Mississippi blues music and US 66 was the route many Okies took to California. Numerous diners and proto-fast-food joints lined these highways.

Not sure what Kurlansky’s book brings to the, uh, table other than bestseller cache.

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