anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, what good is america? well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place one state mississippi. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno: right now we re in the middle of downtown jackson. farish street. anthony: it is a street with a lot of history. what did it used to be like back in the day? geno: the street was packed with folks. folks all over, they
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
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 originally from milwaukee. crime novelist billy boyle from brooklyn. downstairs, currence s restaurant city grocery cranks out many delicious things. the man known as big bad chef, aka johnny snack , is sending some of those goodies upstairs as there s nothing professional writers like more than free food.
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 originally from milwaukee. crime novelist billy boyle from brooklyn. downstairs, currence s restaurant city grocery cranks out many delicious things. the man known as big bad chef, aka johnny snack , is sending some of those goodies upstairs as there s nothing professional writers like more than free food. usually you put five writers in a room it s a ugly hell broth
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 originally from milwaukee. crime novelist billy boyle from brooklyn. downstairs, currence s restaurant city grocery cranks out many delicious things. the man known as big bad chef, aka johnny snack , is sending some of those goodies upstairs as there s nothing professional writers like more than free food. usually you put five writers in a room it s a ugly hell broth of envy, hatred.