An excerpt from the M.C. Taylor-penned bio:William and I bonded early in our relationship over Barry Hannah, a hellraising writer from Mississippi who practically reinvented the way that words could be assembled on a page. Like Hannah, William Tyler knows the Southas a crucible of American histories and cultures, an entity capable of expansive beauty and incomprehensible violence, often in the same beatas his native place, the place that holds him and that he runs from. In the music of William T...