Literary Jackson indeed! We hadn’t caught our breath from the Kathryn Stockett events before we were hit by another good one. Yesterday evening we had Alan Lange and Tom Dawson, the two authors of Kings of Tort, pay us a visit. In case you didn’t get this book for Christmas, Kings of Tort came out in December last year and is about the Dickie Scruggs/Paul Minor fiasco that embarrassed and stunned Mississippi and the rest of the country in 2007. Read John’s blog about it, written just before it came out.
After simply being around this book so much, it was really nice to hear Dawson and Lange talk about it. These are two men who have completely immersed themselves in this scandal for years now, and what was so pleasant about listening to them speak was witnessing how excited and involved they still get when they talk about it. One thing I realized after last night is that not only is the Scruggs/Minor story itself fascinating, the story of how this book came about – and the wealth of research involved in writing it – is interesting. John’s blog described it as a ‘must-read’ for inquiring Mississippians; he’s right.
Susie
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