| − | own experiences — childhood, teen-age growing pains, and encounters as a practicing journalist, with all of his foibles, embarrassments, self doubts, and fantasizing — evoke a nostalgia with which everyone who grew up in a small town can identify. ... He paints a vivid picture of the North Louisiana landscape — sunshine and rain, changing seasons, fishing holes, and woodlands — places where all have been and to which all wish to return.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/history/publications/fragments%20long%20desc.htm|author=Wiley W. Hilburn, Jr.|title=''Fragments''|publisher=latech.edu|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref></blockquote> | + | own experiences — childhood, teen-age growing pains, and encounters as a practicing journalist, with all of his foibles, embarrassments, self doubts, and fantasizing — evoke a nostalgia with which everyone who grew up in a small town can identify. ... He paints a vivid picture of the North Louisiana landscape — sunshine and rain, changing seasons, fishing holes, and woodlands — places where all have been and to which all wish to return.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/history/publications/fragments%20long%20desc.htm|author=Wiley W. Hilburn, Jr.|title=''Fragments''|publisher=latech.edu|accessdate=January 18, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref></blockquote> |