From "cottonmouths coiled in the trunks of cypresses and live oaks, Spanish moss hanging so low my grandfather probably had to brush it away from his young face" to "changing my body from soft to ...

Is he holding the ghost dog in this picture ... "The thing about being an actor is that you cherry-pick emotions from your real life and then channel them into playing roles," he explains.

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, By Andre Dubus III, W.W. Norton & Company, 274 pages From "cottonmouths coiled in the trunks of cypresses and live oaks, Spanish moss hanging so low my grandfather ...