Moreso, he believes, than if he'd started in a colder climate. He started there because of the weather, but the culture around storytelling in that part of the country helped him get off on the right foot.
His stroke of luck, as he now sees it, was starting in the South. The trip itself was invigorating, and the book's enormous success reset his life completely. He remembers waking up every morning for the entire three months thinking not only I can't believe I'm really doing this, but also I can't believe that it's working, that I can just walk into these places and people just start talking about their lives.īy 1982, the resulting book, Blue Highways, hit the top of the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for 42 weeks.
"What an exciting thing it was," he says, now a wizened 77-year-old man with a full head of gray hair.
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