In Deep South, Travel Writer Paul Theroux explores the paradox of America’s Deep South, looking at its rich history and culture, but also why it has some of the nation’s worst schools and unemployment rates.
Theroux interviews mayors, reverends, social workers, farming families, and the very poor to better understand the people who have spent their entire lives in the south, and despite its hardships have never left.
His travels take him through Arkansas and down into parts of Mississippi, spanning four seasons to share the stories and struggles of the people who make up America’s Deep South.
Paul Theroux will be talking about his book, “Deep South,” at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens later TODAY between 2:00-4:00pm.
Guest:
Paul Theroux, travel writer and novelist, whose numerous books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” (Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2006), and his newest, “Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)