Innholdsfortegnelse for April/May 2022 i Garden & Gun

EDITOR’S LETTER Fifteen Years of G&G REMEMBERING WHERE WE’VE BEEN—AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WHERE WE’RE HEADED Maggie Braucher Cameron Wilder In 2007, a magazine with a bold name and a captivating cover image of Pat Conroy standing in a garden fountain arrived in a smattering of mailboxes around the South. The brainchild of Pierre Manigault, John Wilson, and Rebecca Wesson Darwin, Garden & Gun quickly gained a loyal following thanks to its lush photography, literary bent, sophisticated design, and unique mix of coverage—from style to sporting pursuits. It wasn’t the first magazine to put these qualities into play, but it was the first to bring them all to bear on the South. For a native Savannahian sitting in a New York City office building at the time, the…

STAT SHEET G&G by the Numbers FIFTEEN YEARS OF FACTS AND FIGURES 4 Pies have appeared on the cover (cherry, pecan, raspberry, and sweet potato) 2,671 Times the word bourbonappears on the website. Other popular food words include oyster (1,943 times), biscuit (1,571), bacon (1,002), and pimento cheese(367) Signed, Sealed, Delivered G&Greaders receive their subscriptions as far from the South as: Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland 90 Issues published, which included readers’ favorite stories: everything by Julia Reed (we miss her too); Rick Bragg’s essays; “the one about the shotgun called Bo Whoop”; Latria Graham’s “A Dream Uprooted”; and “Wendell Berry’s Wild Spirit.” One…

CONTRIBUTORS Chase Quinn WRITER Ryan Belk “I was amazed at their ability to listen. Each of them had so many things to teach the other” —Chase Quinn on the conversation he recorded between two outdoorsmen (p. 123) Borrowing a pair of binoculars and braving winter’s cold, the South Carolina writer Chase Quinn trekked up I-26 from his home in Charleston to Congaree National Park to spot birds alongside the wildlife biologist J. Drew Lanham and the budding ornithologist Isaiah Scott. Quinn, who has written about the Florida Highwaymen artists for G&G and on race, the arts, and culture for the Guardian and Vanity Fair, captured the outdoorsmen’s conversation for “Southern Futures” (p. 123). As they discussed books, history, and what it means to be Black birders a generation apart,…

Social Chatter GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND WE ASKED... What’s your handiest kitchen gadget? In our Talk of the South newsletter, readers told us about the utensils and gizmos they can’t live without. My Grand-Mama’s twelve-inch Lodge skillet has given me many fried chickens and perfect-crust cornbreads, and once even smacked an intruder on the head. Henriette H. My trusty corkscrew. Mike M. My Braun coffee bean grinder is over thirty-five years old and still going strong. Wish I could say the same for myself. Bob K. My mother’s butcher knife she used for cutting, chopping, weeding, and troweling. Anne P. My martini shaker has never let me down. Rhonda F. My crab cracker, which can double as a rolling pin, and my biscuit cutter, which can also make cookies. Elizabeth A.…

MUSIC Take a Ride with Big Velvet TEXAN PAUL CAUTHEN LETS IT ALL FLY ON COUNTRY COMING DOWN By Matt Hendrickson Jody Domingue Paul Cauthen is speeding down I-20 toward his home in Tyler, Texas, after a recent recording session in Dallas. A self-confessed car guy, he and his father have been buying and selling cars (and motorcycles and boats and pretty much anything else with an engine) since he was a kid. His ride today is a Mercedes-Benz C 300 4MATIC turbo coupe that he bought used for a steal. “It’s a machine, dude,” he says, cackling. Back in Tyler, he keeps a storage building filled with vehicles ranging from a Range Rover to a Dodge Ramcharger—and he’s on the hunt for a growling Chevelle SS. Cauthen is one…

Fact and Fiction Worthy reads from G&Gcontributors “I hope I will be proud that even though I could never find the answer to ‘How will everything turn out?’ I still went to bed at night and woke up the next morning and filled a dish with fresh water for a turtle,” writes Mary Laura Philpott in Bomb Shelter (Atria Books), her hilarious new memoir. Frank, the eastern box turtle that wanders her Nashville yard, offers stability while Philpott’s family navigates both the small catastrophes and the big stuff of life. On the fiction side, Taylor Brown took a true tidbit about William Faulkner—his 1934 Mardi Gras with two daredevils—and threaded it into a captivating novel, Wingwalkers (St. Martin’s Press), about a couple who performs aerial stunts across Depression-era rural America.…

DRINKS Glass Menagerie A TOPFLIGHT COLLECTION OF DRINKING VESSELS PAYS OFF BY THE SIP By Wayne Curtis Food and prop styling by Charlotte Autry PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHNNY AUTRY You’re a person of the world, but you’re not snooty. You can enjoy a well-made cocktail served in just about anything. Silver-plated julep cup? Sure. That plastic go cup saved from your niece’s wedding? Fine. It doesn’t matter, really. Except, well, I regret to report that it actually does matter. The vessel you choose to use will change the taste of the liquid in it. Don’t take my word for it—ask science. Studies have shown that the size and the shape of a wineglass can highlight some aromas and inhibit others. Other research suggests that a thin rim on a beer glass…

HOMEPLACE On Top of the World LAUDED DESIGNER BETSY BROWN FEATHERS HER OWN NEST ON A NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN By Caroline Sanders PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIE WILLIAMS The house didn’t look like much on the internet—just a 1960s kit home, comprising four identical rooms. But Betsy Brown was getting desperate. For years, she had been searching for a place in Saluda, North Carolina, to no avail. The cabin seemed charming enough from the tiny photos online. And Brown, an award-winning interior designer based in Birmingham, felt confident in her ability to make any dwelling livable, so she made an offer sight unseen. The location was the main draw. Brown’s oldest daughter, Sara Bell, had moved to Western North Carolina for college, fallen in love, and stayed, opening a kayaking and outdoor…

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ENCORE® AZALEA Miracle Blooms A DAZZLING HYBRID, THE ENCORE AZALEA THRIVES NO MATTER THE WEATHER—OR SEASON In October 2020, celebrated garden designer Linda Vater watched from her window as a once-in-a-lifetime ice storm hit her Oklahoma City neighborhood, sending the limbs of her front yard’s century-old oak tree crashing to the ground. Some were more than two feet in diameter and destroyed the azalea plants underneath—blooms she had been carefully cultivating for years. The oak tree had provided copious amounts of shade, but now that it was shorn, the amount of sunlight had increased dramatically. So, when it came time to replant, she chose Encore azaleas, a hybrid of traditional spring-blooming azaleas and a rare Taiwanese summer-blooming variety that grows to a more manageable size than its…

A CONSERVATION BLUEPRINT .09 RED WOLF RENAISSANCE THE NORTH CAROLINA ZOO’S MISSION TO SAVE THE ENDANGERED CANID RENEWS HOPE FOR NATIVE SPECIES North Carolina Zoo This is what I like to see,” says Chris Lasher, of the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, as he surveys a seemingly empty wooded enclosure that holds four red wolves that have scattered from sight, disturbed by our presence. “They’re being red wolves.” As the coordinator of the Species Survival Plan, which cares for 230 red wolves across forty-nine partner organizations, Lasher works to ensure that captive red wolves stay as untamed and unacclimated to humans as possible. The ultimate goal: reintroduction into the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, in the swampy forests of northeastern North Carolina. Red wolves—lithe, red-hued, golden-eyed, and shy—are…

THE VIEW FINDERS .11/.12 J.Drew Lanham & Isaiah Sco TWO BIRDERS LOOK BEYOND WHAT THE BINOCULARS REVEAL —Chase Quinn PHOTOGRAPH BY GATELY WILLIAMS The country has been in the grip of a freeze, and South Carolina has not been spared. To avoid black ice, J. Drew Lanham, a writer, poet, and wildlife biologist, has advised Isaiah Scott to arrive at Congaree National Park in the warmer afternoon to bird-watch. Lanham, a son of Edgefield, South Carolina, is meeting Scott for the first time. Scott has traveled up from Savannah to meet his mentor-from-afar; the eighteen-year-old enrolled last fall as a freshman at Cornell University, majoring in environment and sustainability and working with the Lab of Ornithology there, inspired in part by Lanham’s work. ¶ In latter years, Lanham, the author…

A Good Dog Gone Saying goodbye to Pritchard If you’ve read these pages over the past decade or so, you’ve read about Pritchard, my family’s Boykin spaniel. Sadly, we lost her to cancer this past December, just shy of her thirteenth birthday. On her final afternoon, we gathered around and told her the reasons we loved her. The kids made cards and lined her favorite toys around her bed. (A few days later, on Christmas Eve, they stuffed Pritch’s stocking with more notes and a message for Santa: “Take this stocking to Pup Pup. She’s in heaven.”) I’m thankful for the outpouring of support, including the books that a few friends and colleagues sent to help our kids better navigate loss (Goodbye, Brecken; Sammy in the Sky; and Dog Heaven).…

A G&G ORIGINAL Maggie Brett Kennedy From left: Zoltan Katona/Shutterstock.com; Markus Mainka/Adobe Stock; Caleb Chancey “Those first few issues were put together on my tiny home computer,” says Photography and Visuals Director Maggie Brett Kennedy, one of G&G’s first editorial hires. Beginning with a shoot in 2006, when her “crazy English springer spaniel ‘modeled,’ and almost ended up gator bait in the Santee Delta,” Kennedy says she learned that “there’s no instruction manual” for a job where every day is an adventure. She’s forever inspired by the “guts and passion in everyone who writes, photographs, designs, or works on anything for Garden & Gun.”…

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CONSTELLATION BRANDS A Bourbon Brotherhood NELSON’S GREEN BRIER DISTILLERY CARRIES ITS NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGACY FORWARD WITH THE LAUNCH OF AN ALL-NEW BRAND Most people drive right past roadside historical markers. But the Nelson brothers aren’t most people. When their father, Bill Nelson, took his then college-age sons, Andy and Charlie, on a road trip to Greenbrier, Tennessee, back in 2006, the three spotted an auspicious sign: nelson’s greenbrier distillery: the largest producer in robertson county of sour mash whiskey and fruit brandy until 1909. Aware that a long-lost relative named Charles Nelson had been involved in some sort of pre-Prohibition-era whiskey making, the Nelson brothers were thrilled with the serendipitous stop, not only to find proof of their spirited kin, but to see his enterprise deserving of a…

INTERVIEW Kicking Back with Norman Reedus THE ACTOR REFLECTS ON HIS STARRING ROLE IN ONE OF THE PAST DECADE’S MOST ICONIC TV SERIES By Justin Heckert PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM FISCUS Styling by Fatiyha Johnson/The Spin Style Agency There are memorable protagonists in postapocalyptic fiction, but few have the legacy or longevity of Daryl Dixon. After eleven seasons of AMC’s The Walking Dead, the character, with his crossbow and eagle eye, has become a hero in one of the most popular TV shows in history, brought to life with Norman Reedus’s effective glower and soft-spoken care. The Florida-born actor, fifty-three, now splits his time between New York City and Palmetto, Georgia, near where the series was filmed. Also a photographer and a motorcycle enthusiast, Reedus has his own AMC series about…

ASK G&G Q/A Deutsch Treat GERMAN TEXANS, DERBY PREP, AND DIRTY POLITICIANS By Guy Martin ILLUSTRATION BY BRITT SPENCER If beef is king of the grill in Texas, what’s with all the bratwurst at their barbecue joints? Willkommen nach Deutschland, baby! Those baffling brats have serious Central European roots in the Lone Star State. The early British, French, and Spanish colonizers of the South’s Atlantic and Gulf regions get more love in song and story than do the later, nineteenth-century waves of Texasdeutschen to Texas. But in the state’s south-central region lies the German belt, including Austin, Fredericksburg, and Weimar, extending down to Galveston. In 1990, some 17 percent of Texans claimed German descent; today they remain the state’s largest ethnic group with direct European ancestry. By the 1840s, the Texasdeutschen…

ANATOMY OF A CLASSIC Brunch Brigade A FIELD PEA CHOWCHOW BRINGS THE HEAT TO CHEF GREG COLLIER’S CATFISH AND GRITS By Kim Severson Food and prop styling by Charlotte Autry PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHNNY AUTRY Southern food can be hyper-regional. Cooks season collards differently in Mississippi than they do in Tennessee. Barbecue styles shift from one side of a state to another. And then there are grits, which are often a matter of individual tastes. The chef Greg Collier and his wife, Subrina, who own the lauded Leah & Louise in Charlotte and this spring will open a reboot of their popular breakfast restaurant, Uptown Yolk, both grew up in Memphis. He ate the savory grits his grandmother served with country ham; she lived in a household where sugar was an…

SOUTHERN STYLE Exceptionally Gifted FIND A MEMORABLE WEDDING PRESENT WITH THE HELP OF THESE THREE SOUTHERN SHOPS By Haskell Harris PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALICE GAO The TABLE TOPPER PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALICE GAO THE AVENUE Houston, Texas Expert hostess Lyndsey Zorichbrings her knack for setting memorable tables to the Avenue, her Houston shop and online collection of artisan-driven home goods. onlyontheavenue.com NAPKINS The tiny tumbling florals on these D’Ascoli cotton napkins bring a bit of the garden to the party ($36 each). VASE Add flowers to this sculptural ceramic design by Virginia Sin, or leave it empty as an objet d’art ($268). BOWL Salads will seem even tastier when served in this hand-carved mango wood piece ($88). FLATWARE SET Change up the knife-fork-spoon routine with bamboo-handled utensils ($34 for a set). TABLECLOTH…

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BARNSLEY RESORT + CARTERSVILLE-BARTOW CVB A North Georgia Gem AT THE HISTORIC BARNSLEY RESORT AND IN THE NEARBY CITY OF CARTERSVILLE, LIFE’S SIMPLEST PLEASURES ARE WITHIN REACH Nestled in the rolling hills of North Georgia, just one hour from Atlanta, lies Barnsley Resort, a 3,000-acre former estate that marries heritage, natural beauty, and world-class outdoor activities. Originally built in the 1840sbyBritish shipping magnate Godfrey Barnsley as a home for his Savannah-born wife, Julia, the resort was designed in a unique walking village layout where guests can choose accommodations in the fifty-five-room inn or one of the luxurious stand-alone cottages—some of which are even pet-friendly. For a perfect introduction to the resort, guests are invited to climb aboard a complimentary bicycle and cruise around the verdant grounds, or…

THE NEW NASHVILLE SOUND .01 Brittney Spencer THE ON-FIRE SINGER-SONGWRITER IS PUSHING COUNTRY MUSIC TO THE NEXT VERSE —Matt Hendrickson It’s a balmy, blustery winter night in East Nashville, the kind of weather that makes locals jittery following the deadly tornado outbreak of March 2020. But inside the Basement East, rebuilt after those storms demolished it, the backstage dressing room is jammed as Brittney Spencer, resplendent in a floor-length leather jacket and white cowboy boots, basks in the glow of her first-ever headlining show in her adopted hometown. A who’s who of Black Nashville country artists, including Jimmie Allen, Blanco Brown, Reyna Roberts, and Tony Evans Jr., whoop it up as flashbulbs pop. ¶ With respect to then music critic Jon Landau’s words when he discovered Bruce Springsteen, I have…

THE NEXT BISCUIT .13 ROLES DE CANELATO COVET THIS LOUISVILLE PANADERÍA’S ETHEREAL PASTRIES WILL HAVE YOU RETHINKING BREAKFAST Six days a week at seven in the morning, the future of Southern baking emerges from a convection oven in Louisville and goes on display in a six-slot pastry case that looks like a grade-school gym cubby. Sold from a walk-up window, the rol de canela con lechecilla from La Pana, a Mexican American bakery in Logan Street Market, translates from the Spanish as a cinnamon roll with cream. Speckled with pecans, baked until russet and crisp, slit along the side while still warm, piped with chilled vanilla custard, and dusted with cinnamon and powdered sugar, it translates on the tongue as an improvement on a beloved sugar-and-joy delivery vehicle that previously…

WEEKENDS Savannah’s Staying Power WHETHER YOU’RE AFTER ANTIQUES, MODERN SOUTHERN ART, OR WRECKFISH HEADCHEESE, GEORGIA’S RIVERFRONT GEM HONORS THE OLD AND MAKES WAY FOR THE NEW By Alexandra Marvar PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHIA CHONG Bits of plaster crumble from the ceiling of Alex Raskin Antiques, covering a nineteenth-century mahogany table in a sheet of dust. The floors whine and creak as we make our way through the first of the mansion’s four haphazard, jam-packed levels. My husband, Hartford, and I have been house shopping inconclusively in his hometown of Savannah since our wedding here three years ago. Now we’re getting ahead of ourselves, browsing furniture. We regard a massive, worn cotton factor’s desk tucked in a back room. “I hope no one ever buys that,” Raskin says. “Because I have no…

15TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL LET’S CELEBRATE Garden & Gun through the Years THE INSIDE SCOOP FROM READERS, FACT-CHECKERS, AND A STAFFER WHO’S BEEN HERE SINCE THE BEGINNING To mark our anniversary, we asked readers to share their favorite articles, recipes, and covers, and many described their magazine rituals. Whether they wait by the mailbox for the latest issue, pick it up in line at the grocery store, or grab a copy at the airport, they have a happy routine for what comes next: a cup of coffee or a cold drink, a favorite seat, and some time to themselves. In Daphne, Alabama, Steve Goodrich says he turns the pages while “sitting in my leather recliner with a glass of pinot noir by the fireplace on those few days we…

WE ASKED… How do you describe Garden & Gun to people who’ve never heard of it? The short and sweet version. Garden & Gun is like if you had a Southern relative whom you loved deeply tell you stories every couple of months. —Josh C. Even if you’re a cat person, you’ll love the Good Dog stories. —Van H. Full-spectrum Southern.—Jere B. Garden: We entertain on porches, decks, and patios, and in backyards. Gun: The sporting South. Fly fishing, clays, and wing shooting.—Jim S. Reading it is like getting a hug from the South.—Jane M. Just send them a gift subscription. —Robert S.…

LETTERS “The February/ March issue of Garden & Gun feels like it’s peering right into the soul of my household” DEEP ROOTS I love all things trees, and Latria Graham’s story about some of the South’s oldest trees (This Land, February/March 2022) really moved me. We’re proud of our Angel Oak in South Carolina, but it’s hard to imagine her being a mere babe compared with Lady Liberty in Florida. Trees are the sentinels of nature and deserve to be listened to. I hope Graham’s story inspires folks to stop and do just that. Karen Bickley Blythewood, South Carolina As a Southerner by birth now living in the North, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate Garden & Gun. When the issue arrives, I set…

SPORTING SCENE Lasting Impression A SOUTH CAROLINA CARVER IS BRINGING NEW LIFE TO TURKEY DECOYS By T. Edward Nickens PHOTOGRAPH BY JACQUELINE STOFSICK The hunt starts long before turkey season on a private tract of deep forest near the headwaters of the Congaree River. South Carolina decoy maker Tom Boozer is in search of the largest Atlantic white cedars he can find. “I’m real selective,” he says, in his distinctive slow-and-low drawl. “I’ve been cutting these trees for forty-five years, so I know what to look for. And I look for a tree at least twenty-two inches wide. It takes a big piece of wood to make a wild turkey decoy.” That’s right: a wild turkey decoy. Boozer, known for his exquisite hollow body decoys and museum dioramas, is one…

BOOKS Practical Magic A NEW STORY COLLECTION REVELS IN THE MESSINESS OF LIFE By Jonathan Miles Readers of contemporary fiction may recognize an increasingly familiar protagonist type: the blank (or at least semi-blank) slate. They’re lead characters about whom their authors reveal very little, as though meting out their personas with tweezers. Think of the narrator of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts: an unnamed woman in an unnamed city with an unspecified career and little in the way of human attachments. Or the dislocated and unnamed narrator of Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies; the effaced narrator of Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy; or even, at the far end of the spectrum, the narrator of Mississippi-born Catherine Lacey’s Pew, shorn of gender, race, age, voice, and personal history. They’re the character equivalents of certain E.E. Cummings…

FORK in the ROAD Cortados and ’Cue HOW DUSTY MILLER TRANSFORMED HIS FATHER’S DEER-PROCESSING BUSINESS INTO A HOTBED OF SMOKY FLAVOR BY JOHN T. EDGE PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATT TAYLOR-GROSS Illustration by Michael Spitz From the street, the flat roof on the corner building looks like a black iron lid floated over a gray brick pit. Smoke plumes upward, dissolving into the cobalt-blue Texas Hill Country sky. Viewed through roll-up doors, church groups drink coffee and thumb Bibles tagged with sticky notes. High school soccer coaches eat house-made sausages wrapped in comal-blistered tortillas. Instead of pulling up at a drive-through window, commuters line the curb at Miller’s Smokehouse in Belton, a courthouse-square town sixty miles north of Austin on I-35. Carhops with walkie-talkies clipped to their vests take orders with iPads.…

IN THE GARDEN Follies of Fancy A TRIO OF GARDEN BUILDINGS CELEBRATE FORM, FUNCTION, AND A LITTLE BIT OF FUNK By CJ Lotz PHOTOGRAPH BY KATHRYN McCRARY Production/photo editor: Natalie Gialluca In the United Kingdom, land of castle ruins, watchtowers, and country gardens, there’s such a reverence for eighteenth-century follies—whimsical and sometimes charmingly pointless edifices—that an organization called the Folly Fellowship was formed “to protect, preserve, and promote follies, grottoes, and garden buildings.” In the American South, land of homegrown vegetables, pleasure gardens, and cocktail hours, follies have also enchanted landscapers for generations. “The earliest American follies were follies of fashion, copies of English country garden structures,” says Gwyn Headley, an architectural historian and the Fellowship’s cofounder. “You see, in Britain, we usually divide them into follies of fashionand follies…

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KIAWAH RIVER A Charleston Countryside Abode AMID KIAWAH RIVER’S SEA ISLANDS LANDSCAPE, RIVERFRONT LIVING TAKES ON NEW MEANING ““It’s low-key, relaxing, and comfortable,” Randy says of his second home” For the past ten years, Megan and Randy Hendricks have loved visiting the Lowcountry. Randy’s job in waste management first brought him on business trips to Savannah and Charleston, but when winters back home in Pennsylvania took their toll, the couple decided to explore a part-time move down South. “We stumbled upon Kiawah River, and we liked what we saw,” Megan remembers. “The property is beautiful, we love the community and people, but most of all, we love the wildlife we get to see every day while walking on the paths by the river.” Kiawah River offers two…

THE NEAT TRUTH .02 BOURBON’S NEXT GOLDEN AGE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, ITS BEST DAYS ARE AHEAD Squire Fox/AUGUST If you’re pacing your consumption of bourbon—especially if your doctor advises you to do so—we suggest you plan for ramping up your intake in, say, a decade. Because by that time, the range and abundance of sipping whiskeys will almost certainly be extraordinary. Yes, even more so than now. Whiskey is a curious product. What comes out of the still today may not go into a bottle for eight or ten or twelve years. It needs time in a barrel to lose its callow impudence and become an amber statesman. Which also means that makers need to predict demand that far out. Distillers, alas, have a spotty track record as prognosticators.…

A Second Shot MANY CONSIDER PERMIT TO BE THE PINNACLE OF FLY FISHING. BUT IT TOOK HITTING ROCK Nathaniel Linville BOTTOM BEFORE COULD TRULY BEGIN HIS QUEST TO BECOME ONE OF THE BEST PERMIT FISHERMEN ALIVE BY Monte Burke PHOTOGRAPHS BY William Hereford THE BEGINNING OF THE END COMES ONE SULTRY NIGHT IN KEY WEST. An evening like so many here, Nathaniel Linville thinks, even as he wonders if he’ll be around to ever witness another. Linville has just used the last of his cocaine. It’s only a temporary fix, though, something to stave off the crushing, terrifying pain of withdrawal from his other addiction, heroin. ¶ He walks out of his apartment—its floor covered with newspapers, a month’s worth of dirty clothes, and scattered piles of needles—and into the…