Celebrate Southern identity through the eyes of contemporary creators of literature, music, film and TV | dHNfcG82RFFtbVk3UGs
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00:02 - Story is the means through which people
00:05 and places achieve immortality.
00:07 - The series captures all different genres of storytellers.
00:15 People like Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Jericho Brown.
00:18 - Poems are always after your subconscious
00:20 or your unconscious.
00:21 - Mary Steenburgen.
00:22 - I loved being a trainman's daughter.
00:25 I was proud of it.
00:26 - And Billy Bob Thornton.
00:27 - The South is made for writers.
00:30 The ultimate beauty in writing is something
00:32 that makes you expand as a soul or a person.
00:36 - Our culture is still being informed.
00:39 It's still ongoing.
00:40 We don't have a settled history.
00:42 William Faulkner said,
00:45 "The Southern reveals a compulsion to explain."
00:48 - I think what surprised me the most
00:50 is how much the South is changing
00:52 and how rapidly it was changing,
00:54 even during the production of this.
00:56 - A lot of the culture that's been there
00:58 for a very long time is disappearing fast.
01:00 Much of what we want to remember,
01:03 much of what we need to know gets erased.
01:06 - Story is a thing that we carry with us each and every day.
01:09 - The literary canon has kept us out.
01:12 Our stories deserve to be heard.
01:14 - Our culture is still open for interpretation
01:17 and explanation and exploration.
01:19 I think that's what makes storytelling
01:21 so vital in the South.
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