. >> the next year i won the william faulkner award for the novel. and i had never met the m. though i had stood next to him at the-- american academy and had never had the guts to walk over and introduce myself because i heard he had been rude to so many people. but then i got all these young southern writer, mr. price heir to faulkner, oh, god, i'm not an heir to anything. i'm a young american writer. >> rose: it was almost like if you googled today no matter how far back they go, if you googles reynolds price and william faulkner you would hear what you just said repeated over and over and over again >> as the years have gone on, the decades have gone on and i have now published 38 books, i hear it less, this reynolds price southern writer -- >> but also because you have ranged far. >> yeah, and people can now, now be sort of praiseful about it. distinguished about it, well, all right. if insist. but i still very much prefer to be just thought of as a good or bad writer and an american writer. >> what made the dodgers sort of a different and a special team? most of you live