A Word on Words; 2611; Lee Smith

remember hello i am done segal once again welcome to word on words and i ask you welcome least miss those south ferry riders will americans really great storyteller walton welcome lee thank you i'm glad that they have great to have a good talk about news of the spirit which is the title story of several rapping sometimes larry actually funny short stories short stories with you know since the short stories may be coming back they're coming out now lies love them and it's really mad favorite or man thank the people who don't like and seldom realized that you have to imagine so much more than you actually put on the prize is like a whole ice mark and the short story is just this little pop art that's been speaking up and they're sort of a wonderfully demeaning form and why at a novelist or a figure but i can't

let the stores alive and well i think knowing and having read after you for saving grace or history of the devil's rain in your ira as mr om i think in one of these stores no one thinks that therefore it's hard ass would've imagined the novel white wrote an engine a lot more than you read on the pride and that it's really hard to pick one part of their lives or what part of the whole story you need the short story that's going to be committed to that are in our party news version of a less of your book is the poster girl and her firm only it's the title story of some ice because it's backed by a great story and i feel very close to a means a lot to

maybe cats i'm just a personal reason which is that you have people are always talking about southern writers as other writers are always played a world famous the crazy when i was four now well i mean right now as of the spirit is about that you know it's a band it's a funny story out but it's not that way now a family where their ears a child who has a serious bipolar problem is there is no illness and that the effect on the whole family and i've tried to have it be also follow find gangs are now kind of things that you know this has been out there for years and as valentine is really write a story about it and will have

not writing so i'm going to make it i don't i would be a good title story because somebody once said it may i take your man george barrett has a wonderful wider he was talking about the matter of fiction in east is said the us is it would you know fiction it's always about the inner life it's not so much what happens it's how much it matters to somebody he said fiction is in good fiction should always bring this news of the spirit in ways was afraid i rather than twenty five years ago and have always won and he's somewhere a magnet that i don't armed of that particular story and just that night at the time of the collection te the desmond invaded the scene is about the inner life and the story of the day just to power with different about just what's inside the government that how it gets that and then what's on the cover of a sometimes awful dreadful

often quarters say amy mom i wanted this time over the publisher wanted that time before it was more marketable and i looked at that news of the spirit i thought well that's not love paul you're only two years on the spiritual but but then i looked at the cover and undecided strike marketing technique to us from the soul level please leon talley it's funny you know i don't really i don't imagine a reader when i'm writing and just why any permits they open and riding along always hear some sort of human voice they mandated telling the story that just writing for myself and so i don't know anything about marketing i'm always kind of astonished and this time i said i just thought it was a soundman that and audio fiction that that i was trying to

get paint or and i when i wanted as the title and as that out now and not said a family that may it may well if they read the story and if they assumed and i wrote for a story we jump the last hour ago the title story and they think it might be the one that would reach out grab a maid does reach out and grab and john is this arrangement it will end when you know i went on amazon and a payment on camera with calming he said the house that runs all deny all anyway the party though dressed like teenagers saying well the thing i

like about they are writing is that so often so i mean i my respect for our president but it turns twenty one to share the one for a video it uses the neighbor and they all ran an so you're saying that the group wants to share and i mean i know exactly what users than any couple of big movie star keith ellison that's our when he says he wants to share i mean you know again i'm sure the president here the people rainbow is was you know it's really hard for mayday pac and that that would ban certain irony though it up and well a heroine in this whole area when she comes to the point i think with johnny so unreal so

andrews know where i don't think we don't know but my decision than ever here and i answer out that that's my answer it and that this was it for the novel a lot of them could they novels and i had trouble up and i had that image of the stories in this work ethic puzzle things at the fed it can happen you keep i mean what is your favorite only one of those stories in a new are they stories teenage on are traveling to merman because they are about the inner life of the airline's

most often in this collection of women and the other riders or thereabouts telling stories and done a lot of work in the bomb oral history and it's gotten so instead of a man who tells stories and at what time and their lives and men have a story out years depending upon we're talking ted animated the storyteller and all sad that its allies are storytellers elements better night's me and south island wonder what that means a lot to me and here is the babar stories other stories are graphs want torn between booing norfolk and i think that well leyland in and we're waiting with a wonderful story though she's constantly interrupted and the story that the citizens and i thought is as a punchline or is it a punchline for several know in other years it was like to read a list of other bubble story

first i mean one of the stories is really calm and now the girl who's the kind of girl i was when i went off to college and wanted to become a writer i wanted to become a writer because they wear a cape harry weinger yeah naturally while that and so reduce abuse that this notion and that these are some injustice or they tell or will write what you know because from this little commentary on at the end of the world and when an ally

she needed to go through life thumbing out together through college that's right and that that i didn't hear in that story she makes up her brother and he has lots more success with the madam rather than with their attempts to fix it apparently she had literary yeah the michigan michigan demonstrated that she taught latin kept trying to write this glamorous minds and i think it's our that the real item between art and life which is a hard line shiite young writer has to figure out it's frightening known them in baba had some parenting experiences and my family so i do think that in an animal in our lives rawlings got drunk fell down the face from frozen pavements ever ever ever layered glass to reveal that would always enter into she really sort of

made up the wonderful experiences or the car was stolen and when to stop it and stop coming to pay a visit to her and a mini interview with the time heroic he was at dartmouth and then she'd find out what your girlfriend who's going to dartmouth and tj he had killed more than five thousand wineries in fact i've met and don't you think that my husband held me when he wins and collins united states i'm doing great the boys i know that you know you take your room at home with

me but you gotta get recovered some way that made it out of these medicines that are like well the nfl that's the film of my favorite and i won that storytelling is about it's about and it's about a woman who comes home to either clean up and sort of deal with everything after her father's death and the housekeeper is telling me story about her own daughter lulu where they were everyone was wearing wooden as the techies living in the world and it never cannot look at the people in each other with him afterwards and it also has to rethink the lion's anatomy a word she comes around to talking about the illnesses that are unknown would become popular and everybody nobody

knew it was intolerable this is a wonderful essay that wonderful character that that thing is just telling a story to a very renowned all officially who is tremendously i dropped in tehran also terrified of this kind of passion you know in a region now gone and fought way it it's a tragedy because you know they're sorting through everything with twenty years yet unable to align for all your boyfriend just it's drunk tom you know they're going to know in america particularly in the south and in the north in the tampa repelling so much alike and so many wise thats right

hybrid divisive and did things they'll want them as they age and their young writing status that are slathered with different he has a real tradition of park they're good doctors you know and i come from families where people fail pop a lot of great tradition and i think that's still very southern anyone can say you know come and when the other ears look alikes with david pierce done and i'll probably start to their promise that pretty well will do you want to discourage them and many of many professor michael these days at the launch campaigns expressed great concern about what's happening to american letters of world literature well our storytelling tradition but the writing tradition we

have that big overall that's really turn around think where we are having a generation now who is really groupon palpitations to the extent that it's very hard for them to get attention you know to a long sustained narrative but to listen to a narration as opposed to seeing now in its bomb growing up in families where books are not without an ma many families where books are not read something where the same instrument in a line of their statements in some of my creative writing classes about it get the few that really aren't real writers and they want to you know really want to raid want to write stories want to listen to stories and tell stories and silence and there's no one that was just talking about are not quite though one of the male undergraduate ballet or kids who work are all people in baghdad we're already interested in

writing and being writers and i think they're still coming along that it worries may have been getting more and more good writers and fewer and fewer readers someone who was someone literally not long ago maybe as the first were encouraged when i heard that maybe let the computer which requires an ability to communicate in the written word name for all the years not just by congress and others that the well may bring about the phenomenal of that is that when a wonderful it can happen that the nile i think the kind of writing i mean people are right people are riding are actually now than they have for years because they're riding back or email simon and they're actually writing more communicating ordering phone than i am

it's instantaneous battle it's not a degree of no reflective vest that has a very different where india and different for the other hand is used this generation's method of communication the extent that email is it and it is increasingly it has taken place at that replace a verbal communication the telephone and i know i mean if the supposedly start writing anything it's a bedouin riding on it as i once years about our plans to do that have been declared and it's a global and i mean i couldn't read write and what it was was the driver's manual what's the right agree to this unless let's go back to look for mitt romney because they're there

is another story in there that's that's somewhat offbeat it comes to my mind and it came to my mind is really talking about the boat alone on the books and here you've created this sort of this setting in which there are a group of three women definitely use of part of the vocal doesn't talk about well that's really that a lot the gallant mr cranston and your writing great talent there were letters they stated that in this case it was a senior citizen great not a literacy group every time and so when i arrived was a line like that are a symbol around around title in their cafeteria being presided over primary and dictatorial that woman in a sort of lavender helmet hair daily is that you're like a price that mayo and said mayor insisted we are there

syd barrett we knew and wanted it having read their bird chirping merrily little more grace well meanwhile another war over here opens and this little woman in a kind of light at anthems that shane in that configuration well it's not quite a book what is going on why one main route the finger at it since then just an odd letter and made her i'm never signed and never got to find out what it was an

accent or how does that not to do it you know we never questioned that writing is something and policy and which is in response to the question why do you write she said i believe are right because i want to have more than one wife which is wonderful and math working in this kind of this kind of situation that i just keep a man saying with women and wondering what's her only now that so stanley her voice sort of came to be in and begin the right but that story but that's a great privilege you know to be able to have more than one wife one of the park's that they are idling and as a wonderful tony right here i'm not only allowed in alright i'll rise little town where the main

enemies lay out type that they and the backyard there and and i don't wanna know anything after i was slyly say about it and they can run faster and yeah i want to re of ours how will i can get paid for rating but i'll just repeat it holiday they retire i just want to re that with the right now one i mean i one of a sly wanna wanna be deliberate say those words that mark bear a caravan of them here in weld men were about rewriting do you have to write like i think it is that a very painful are strapped and then every ride a whole wine and i just want to say ah that's nancy france with the computer if they write about it and about what that story is really a man i want to go back and grapes and

finance out at a certain point i complain ideas or a final plan i'm very anti national network you are descended you draw on very heavily early life experiences and in the fiction that that you write at building what groups do you have on how close to reality family in a certain way they should never comes out of thin air you know it comes out of its allies family comes out of things we really are things we learn are experiences that we hand over really why truly autobiographical fiction i have a family and sensitive at any characters out of step into a story the tears we will live bachmann does that come to us with the beginning millennium and oftentimes we have trouble making sense of iran will live there and that its decay i thought i'd start you know from a polite but an hour i'll change it or ram a man

careful about that because i never want to play he's anything that might extend anybody else or be a recognizable other real character or anything like that so i just like that some women and preserve it by putting its own that means a lot of neighbors are happening in the story but then i really really new time and that makes it even a shy eighteen probably didn't give our review stories i only carry along and so i go back and look you are writing in to voice is one the first person on the other partner third and one as i and the other is the shooter is

an hour i wonder why you and how you should use research was going i don't know that it's easier of course to write in the first person and his art why now if you can hear them all of them have a vivid really hits you then it because you know as soon as we hear semi source they can do as we automatically know on amazon why we know a lot about him despite their diction and their word choice we know all kinds of things about their education level in their background and so he again you have a sort of a but for that the latter i think he's first person but sometimes armed it if i get by cause so i made to go and he did i need to present things in the story that that first person narrator could not know you know it said they'll have to counter that power person flat out different different why why we're going

gets to that that it is a difficult far dr the first person and have the person tell about themselves and the way to go about that there is that they didn't know how it matters that i look in the mirror now this man's land that manages the reality now nineteen oh nine now its time are there stories in this collection i think he enjoyed or a very close third person close to one person or first person because they really are