The Interconnectness of Discontiguous Things
I watched the film The Pianist over the weekend. Being about Poland and the Second World War and all, it reminded me of Sophie's Choice.
Which, I suppose because of the Southern and local history I had been reading, reminded me about William Styron. He's a Southerner, yet an expat who's lived in Connecticut for forty years. I got curious about him, and I surfed and clicked and Googled here and there, until I found this.
It's excellant. Read it all. It reveals a lot, including why Styron, a native of the American South, felt like writing a book about a Polish woman during the war.