Wendell pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the katrina hurricane, whic
Now actor and producer Wendell Pierce will talk about his family and their new orleans neighborhood followed by hurricane katrina. His book is, the wind and the reefs. He reefs. He speaks of the 27th annual southern festival of books. Hello, welcome. This is the southern festival of books session on the wind and the reefs with the author Wendell Pierce. We will be ready to begin. Just a bit of housekeeping. First of all welcome to the National Public library and thank you for so much for hosting the southern festival of books and being one of the hosts. I appreciate it. Please know that this festival depends on individual donations, among other sources to remain free to the public. Please consider donating at any level that is comfortable to you. You can donate via the humanities tennessee website, the app, the facebook page, or in person at page, or in person at the headquarters of the festival throughout the weekend. The format of the session will be essentially conversational, mr. P
This is over. applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the
applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the katrina hurric
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis wendell pierce, a successful career means taking on a wide array wide array of diverse characters. He is on the michael j. Fox show. Essedays a ratingsobs producer. He also plays in treme. Its final season on hbo. Before we start our conversation, a look at a scene from treme. I love it when dan comes in on the vocals. They used to do that a lot in the old days. It always cracked me up. Call and response . Yeah, thats right. The guys in back go, we love all. [laughter] says i said a moment ago, it aint so, but as it turns out, this has been a pretty good run for a series that come if you looked at it on paper a few years ago, given the katrina evenue, it might not have gotten off the ground, let alone lasted this long. It is one of those things that you realize that come in a disaster, the greatest thing that you have is the will of the people. A lot of times, people saw katrina is just an event that dealt