susan newman, rebecca walston for this wonderful event. thank you for being with us. we are now going to have a reception. if you are exhausted now is time for a glass of wine. we are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction of corbeil q. like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or twitter us at twitter.com/booktv. >> next in knoxville, authors fred brown and jeanne mcdonald talk about their book john grisham 18. >> the title of your book is "growing up southern: how the south shapes its writers" and my first question is how does the south shape its writers? >> we ask that question to the 13 writers that we interviewed and what makes a southern writer? what is a southern writer? it is different from the a writer out west or in the east or something like that. they classified themselves as writers, they view themselves as southern writers because they live in the south but they are americans never the less. the very americans, very southern. place is a big thing to southern writers. place, home, the west may

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