. >> year john grisham on the front of your book. >> yes yes a wonderful author does a lot about these courtrooms and counties that i work in everyday and every every year of my career. >> bryan stevenson. "just mercy: a story of justice and redemption" is the name of the book. we won't tell the ending. the narrative about walter

john currence's place on the square. there's the brilliant author tom franklin and his wife, the poet beth ann fennelly. grishamr for espn. fellow writer on the series "treme," chris. novelist ace atkins. poet derek harell is originally from milwaukee. crime novelist billy boyle from brooklyn. downstairs, currence's restaurant city grocery cranks out many delicious things. the man known as big bad chef, aka johnny snack, is sending some of those goodies upstairs as there's nothing professional writers like more than free food. usually, you put five writers in a room, it's an ugly, hell broth of envy, hatred -- >> we all hate tommy. >> yeah, that goes without saying. >> even me. i hate me worst of all. >> around here anyway the writers are really supportive of each other. for writers to argue would be like arguing over a piece of dirt. i mean, what are we fighting about? >> the stakes are too low. >> the stakes are so low. why would you be a jerk about it? >> if mississippi were a country and there were a national hero, dead or alive, by consensus, statewide, who would the statue be of? >> elvis. >> really? it w