and awesome, as well as staff writer for a game-changing animated series adventure time all works of which i am a huge fan. so he wrote right right on the wall. bill griffith: he just wrote on it. anthony: it s it s his man cave. bill griffith: yeah, it s his it s his version. he said that houses in mississippi who have a family business have one room dedicated to the family business and this family s business is writing. anthony: from as early as 1919 through the 60s, faulkner wrote extensively about the post-civil war south. he was the first author to do so at a time when most writers were writing about anything but. bill griffith: he always said that he wrote about a south torn between itself. torn between the old ways, the old traditional ways, and modern development. he said he was gonna break the antebellum code. anthony: right. bill griffith: and he did. anthony: but bill griffith: he did, and yet he had those hobbies and interests that were de
interests that were definitely of a gentry class and a gentry nature. jack pendarvis: his portrait and his horse bill griffith: there s a great example. anthony: yeah. bill griffith: in his in his riding habit. that s a great example. you do get to a certain level of success, and all of a sudden, this seems like a good idea. and it s never a good idea at that age. anthony: at any age, really. bill griffith: exactly. anthony: was he politically active at all? i mean, there was a lot going on. bill griffith: he s a middle-of-the-road democrat. that s what he said. he said you have to bring black education up with white education. and since the state of mississippi will not invest in black education, it s up to its citizens to do so. he said that segregation wasn t 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.
adventure time all works of which i am a huge fan. so he wrote right right on the wall. bill griffith: he just wrote on it. anthony: it s it s his man cave. bill griffith: yeah, it s his it s his version. he said that houses in mississippi who have a family business have one room dedicated to the family business and this family s business is writing. anthony: from as early as 1919 through the 60s, faulkner wrote extensively about the post-civil war south. he was the first author to do so at a time when most writers were writing about anything but. bill griffith: he always said that he wrote about a south torn between itself. torn between the old ways, the old traditional ways, and modern development. he said he was gonna break the antebellum code. anthony: right. bill griffith: and he did. anthony: but bill griffith: he did, and yet he had those hobbies and interests that were definitely of a gentry class and a gentry nature. jack pendarvis: his portr
he always said that he wrote about a south torn between itself, torn between the old ways, the old traditional ways and modern development. he said he was going to break the antebellum code. right. and he did. he did. but? he did. and yet, he had those hobbies and interests that were definitely of a gentry class and a gentry nature. his portrait on his horse there s a great example. and his writing habit. that s a great example. you do get to a certain level of success, and all of a sudden, this seems like a good idea, and it s never a good idea at that age. at any age. exactly. was he politically active at all? i mean, there was a lot going on. he was a middle of the road democrat. that s what he said. he said you have to bring black education up with white education, and since the state of mississippi will not invest in black education, it s up to its citizens to do so. he said that segregation wasn t about being right or wrong. he said any sane, sober souther
to the family business and this family s business is writing. anthony: from as early as 1919 through the 60s, faulkner wrote extensively about the post-civil war south. he was the first author to do so at a time when most writers were writing about anything but. bill griffith: he always said that he wrote about a south torn between itself. torn between the old ways, the old traditional ways, and modern development. he said he was gonna break the antebellum code. anthony: right. bill griffith: and he did. anthony: but bill griffith: he did, and yet he had those hobbies and interests that were definitely of a gentry class and a gentry nature. jack pendarvis: his portrait and his horse bill griffith: there s a great example. anthony: yeah. bill griffith: in his in his riding habit. that s a great example. you do get to a certain level of success, and all of a sudden, this seems like a good idea. and it s never a good idea at that age. anthony: at any age, re