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My Imaginary Home
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
On Monday I did a little thing in Cullman, Alabama. This is where my father is from and where I spent parts of summers, where I shoplifted from Nancy Pilot's drugstore (she knew all along) and stole french fries off the plates of unsuspecting customers at my grandparent's famous restaurant, The All Steak. What makes this particularly relevant and, even to me, weirdly so, is that Cullman has figured prominently in much of my fiction. The fictional town of Ashland, Alabama is actually modeled on Cullman.
Just a couple of weeks ago a wonderful new magazine called Thicket asked me for something, and I thought it would be fun to draw the map of the town I see in my head when I write my stories, the town that Cullman never really was except in my mind. The town I regularly empty of people and then repopulate with the characters I need for the next story. This map is going to be in Thicket, but it's not coming out for a couple of months.
Here's a preview.
posted by Daniel Wallace at 9:10 PM
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