Still working through these but I do love Ms. Welty. She’s strange and violent and her Southern sensibility resonates for me. These stories have a slightly old-fashioned feel—there’s a bit more of that psychological telling than we like in our more contemporary stories, but oh, she makes me laugh out loud sometimes. “Why I Live At the P.O.” is a story I could read a hundred times in a row and probably not get sick of. She’s just funny, and she’s funny with a brilliant double-edged characterization that is straight out of small towns as I have personally experienced them.