Shelby Foote — MPB Books

the first writer that I know of in Greenville was miscarriage turn was a school principal there and will Percy was a protege of her he's the first established writer from Greenville miss Kari was a writer but will pursue the first truly established writer and it's the presence of will Percy I think that it counts for the literary of progress in Greenville if will Percy had been born and Clarksdale or Greenwood it's entirely possible to Clarksdale or Greenwood would have been literary places it's not that he ran a school of any kind or had a coterie of followers or anything like that it was by example there's a man that who had written two or three books of poetry you knew that it was possible to write a book of portrait not theoretically but actually if somebody lived in that town had done it so you believed you could do it too and you could Greenville the joke was if more people writing books in Gremlin are reading them but rain will produced at least 12 published authors between the years of say 1935 and 1955 that's a lot of writers from one little term and it was it was a sort of tradition I can tell you that the Union Army and the Union Navy did everything they could to pound it to pieces with the stuff they threw in here at civilians they talked about Saddam Hussein and his terrorist tactics you want to see terrorist tactics you live in Vicksburg in May in June of 1863 you see terrorist tactics he was shooting at men women and dogs children was a fairly shameful performance but it's perfectly natural for time it's what they did but Vicksburg is interesting to contrast was Natchez and that first upstream excursion by Farragut and Butler when they got the Natchez they trained the guns on the town said do you surrender after fire just a couple of shots they said my god we surrender don't shoot our beautiful please don't throw that stuff at us so they surrendered but Lamaze children took George and Natchez without any trouble who told a couple of stray shots they came on up to Vicksburg made exactly the same to my hand and Vicksburg response was Mississippians don't know how to surrender if you think you can teach us how come try it so a year or so later they they they taught us how to surrender but it took an awful lot of doing

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Length: 2min 43sec (163 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 25 2019