Bookslut reports:
The (Jackson, Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger wonders who will carry on the Magnolia State’s literary tradition after the (fairly) recent deaths of Larry Brown, Eudora Welty, Willie Morris and Margaret Walker Alexander. (The article notes that Barry Hannah is “not writing much anymore,” but doesn’t mention his recent hospitalization in Texas for an “undisclosed illness.” Is he OK? Does anybody know?)
Two good questions here. I’m most curious about the second. The first one will figure itself out, as Mississippi is a story-telling land. However, as a native Mississippian, I am perfectly willing to step into those shoes should some rich Mississippian wish to put me up on a nice comfy living stipend so I can devote myself full-time to the craft of fiction writing. ;-)
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