![]() ![]() Reading White’s stories is like sitting on my grandmother’s front porch again in the summertime, listening to the grown-ups spin out one story after another, evening after evening. And now, too, I have White’s book, Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living (Addison-Wesley, $17.95, 230 pages), which brings together more than 50 of her short radio commentaries and magazine articles. I know these things because I have heard Bailey White, a first-grade schoolteacher who lives with her mama in south Georgia, talking about them on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. ![]() She would be the short old lady with the walking stick, mismatched safety pins holding her glasses together and very definite opinions on matters as diverse as the life cycle of the solitary wasp, the merits of Midnight Cowboy and how to teach a taxidermist to make pickles. Actually, I think I could pick “Mama” out in a crowd. I would like to meet Bailey White’s mother. ![]()
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