New York Times best-selling author Richard Grant appeared on the podcast back in September when he was in town for the Mississippi Book Festival. The scribe of Dispatches from Pluto was promoting his new book, A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Dispatches from Arizona. He talked about facing gunmen in the Sierra Madre, Natchez history, why he moved from Mississippi, the Apaches, and some of the more colorful parts of Arizona history. Enjoy the episode.
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9 comments:
I really enjoyed Dispatches from Pluto. I hope that the new book is as accurate a depiction of AZ as Dispatches from Pluto is of the Delta.
LOVED Dispatches from Pluto. LOVED The Deepest South of All. Can't wait to read this one next.
I wonder if he encountered any rednecks in Arizona--
As a native Arizonan, this was so incredibly enjoyable to me.
The George Warren story in the Arizona state seal: just wow; I did not know that (and Arizona history is a hobby of mine).
Southeastern Arizona is so different from Phoenix or the mountains of northern Arizona. Tucson is half Mexico (not an insult; although as a Sun Devil, I do not mind Tucson insults).
The minerals and gems for sale in the Tucson area are out of this world. Bisbee, referenced in the George Warren story, is worth the trip if you can ever get there. The Copper Queen Mine tour is very, very cool.
It would not take much for this 'writer' to more accurately describe AZ than he did the MS Delta. After all, he did live in the western-most sliver of Holmes County flatland for a couple of months.
Why, did you happen to be there at the time?
I really enjoyed Dispatches from Pluto; but found the Deepest South of All to have a very slanted view due to his getting in the fight between the two Garden Clubs and based his entire view from the kitchen (and maybe other parts of the residence) of the leader of one. Could have done as great a job on Deepest South as he did with Pluto if he had chosen to meet folks on both sides of that divide; but he didn't.
I met Richard at a pig roast prior to Dispatches From Pluto being published. I was perplexed why a Brit like him and his wife had moved from NYC to, of all places, an isolated house nestled between Bee Lake and the Yazoo River in Holmes County. Then the book came out and I was amazed to see he had gained as much insight into the Delta in a relatively short time as most people, like me, who grew up there. Dispatches From Pluto should be in every Mississippian’s reading queue.’
Was the writer smoking during the interview? It sounded that way. I had to stop listening, halfway-through. ...will NOT be reading the book.
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