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About being right or wrong, he said any sane, sober southerner knows that it s wrong. it s about wanting to change or not. but people don t want to give up power. fear is still alive and well in mississippi. i think racism is one of those great things in the world that you ll never solve and that s why faulkner wrote about it. anthony: writers, as i know from looking in my own dark heart, are generally terrible people. put ten of them together and it s like putting your head in a bag full of snakes. i meet a bunch of them above in city grocery, john currence s place on the square. there s the brilliant author tom franklin and his wife, the poet beth ann fennelly. grisham writer-in-residence, megan abbott. pendarvis, you know. poet chiyuma elliott. wright thompson is a senior writer for espn. fellow writer on the series treme, chris offutt. novelist ace atkins. poet derek harriell is ....
I ve been here only a week. my sentences, they re starting to change already. cause it s not just a physical, a rhythm to the speech, but the way i m organizing my thoughts is starting to change. some of the oxford writers from last night managed to make it out of bed. heads pounding no doubt, filled with the shame and self-loathing surely familiar for writers. but like such greats of the past as malcolm lowry, f. scott fitzgerald, and charles bukowski, they too have learned that more alcohol first thing will often make you feel better about the world. particularly if accompanied by freshly baked cornbread, biscuits, pulled pork off that whole hog, sweet jerk chicken, and brisket. hell, i feel better already. man: the mississippi that i ve received is not the mississippi that i ve had in my head. i was surprised on how sold i was off the bat. if you wanna write, you come to oxford. anthony: do you think that s true? well, apparently yes. jack pendarvis: like that line in barton ....
Alive, by consensus, statewide, who would who would the statue be of? wright thompson: elvis. anthony: really? wouldn t be b.b. king? wright thompson: it should be. it should be b.b. king. anthony: i mean chris offutt: yeah. but it would be elvis. anthony: but it would be elvis. wright thompson: well, i mean, mississippi is the joke is that it s not a state, it s a club. that it s so small that everybody knows everybody. ace atkins: in the middle of mississippi, oxford is an oasis of thought, and art, and literature, and feeling, and sentiment and everything. they call this place the velvet ditch. anthony: why the velvet ditch? jack pendarvis: i guess you just roll in and it s pretty frigging comfortable, and you don t care much about getting out. right? right? am i right? anthony: well, no one here seems too bitter about that. wright thompson: it s a place that needs help but it s a really great place. we re never leaving. ....
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The award-winning debut short story collection from Assistant Teaching Professor of English Maegan Poland, PhD, features wildly imaginative and beautifully detailed stories. In this interview, Poland discusses her interests and influences, among other things. ....