HOW DO YOU ENGAGE WITH SOUTHERN Gothic? Especially if, as in the case of Alix E Harrow, the very term takes makes you think of Toni Morrison, the Nobel-winning novelist whose Beloved drew on one of America’s richest literary traditions to explore the psychological effects of slavery, to devastating effect.
“What are you even doing?” Harrow asks rhetorically down the line from her home. “How can you play in that sandbox?” Perhaps you do so because it’s time and you suddenly have no choice. Two years ago,
