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Dixie Rising
New York Times Atlanta correspondent Peter Applebome reads from and discusses his book Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture. He addresses the many attempts at defining the South and Southerners and discusses race and labor history.
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Tagged Culture, George C. Wallace, History, J. B. Stoner, Memory, Race, The South, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
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Modern Southern Literature
Novelist Guy Owen participated in the 1980 NHC summer institute Voyages of Discovery. Owen describes the process of writing and changing real life into fiction by taking a germ and “running it through the Olympics” of his imagination. He challenges the notion that Southern literature is in decline, citing its rich oral tradition and the ability of Southern authors to vividly render a sense of place and the tempo of Southern life. Owen is author of The Ballad of the Flim Flam Man and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Journey for Joedel. At the time of this interview Owen was writer in residence and professor of English at North Carolina State University.