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
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. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com these are the specialists we re proud to call our own. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price. is as easy as dates, deals, done! simply enter your destination and dates. and see all th
writer: we all hate tommy. writer 2: no, that goes without saying. tom: even me, i hate me the worst of all. jack pendarvis: around here anyway, the writers are really supportive of each other. for writers to argue would be like arguing over a piece of dirt. i mean, what are we fighting about? the stakes are so low, why would you be a jerk about it. anthony: if mississippi were a country and there were a national hero, uh, dead or 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 feelin
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.
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