John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed talk about their new book, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. In this book they combine precision, humor, and Confederate pride to explain America’s most intriguing but misunderstood region to the rest of the country. In a collection of verbal snapshots — a rich, irreverent, and idiosyncratic catalog of all things Southern — one reviewer says that they have produced 300 pages of prose as smooth and mellow as if it had been filtered through charcoal. No sunbelt sojourner should leave home without it.
