Xmastime Book Review

Instead of actually being written, was The Ponder Heart spoken over the phone straight to the printer? Wtf?  And yes, I know we're supposed to get moist about how "real" it makes us to read old Southern sayings etc, but camon.  And the only funny bit at all was the line about the family that hoped someone would discover oil in their front yard so they would "fly inside and tell them about it."