Crazy from the Heat

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking?</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;'><br></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;'><br></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>Indeed for both writers and readers geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings consciously or subconsciously to create their imaginative worlds just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring locales be it Hemingway</span><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>’</span><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>s Havana Faulkner</span><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>’</span><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>s Yoknapatawpha County or McMurtry</span><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>’</span><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>s Lonesome Dove.</span></p>