The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists
"[A] wonderful work. Required for viewers and readers interested in Southern folkways and culture."--Library Journalstarred review"[A] rich collection developed over 40 years. . . . [A] moving and eloquent book."--Publishers Weekly"Compiles decades' worth of deeply personal interviews with many of the South's greatest luminaries. . . . . And thanks to an included CD and DVD, their voices leap off the page and come to life."--Garden and Gun"Ferris' idea of an essential South, layered by a narrative sensibility in music, literature and the visual arts, sings to the better angels of our nature. . . . Yet reading this remarkable book one realizes, too, that a brooding, unsettled nature about the South is still sadly with us."--New Orleans Magazine"A valuable addition to both public and academic libraries for their Southern Culture collections. Overall the book would be of interest to the general reader, as well as the scholar of Southern Studies."--Tennessee Libraries"[A] comprehensive collection of accounts by these foundational southern artists. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."--Choice"[Ferris's] latest book,The Storied South, was published this summer, and includes such well-known artists and thinkers as Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, William Eggleston and Alice Walker. . . .Storiedincludes a DVD and a CD of interviews that Ferris conducted during the past 40 years, as well as his photography."--Brooks Bulletin"The book is a one-of-a-kind trove."--Visual Communication Quarterly"The Storied Southis a book you could read on and on and on."--Flycatcher"Intimate and moving. . . . Undoubtedly a volume that should be included in the personal library of every Southerner or lover of the Southern storytelling tradition. When the final page ofThe Storied Southis turned, readers will truly feel like they have been sitting on the front porch listening to the voices and stories of these legendary Southern icons."--ClickMagazine"[A] treat for lovers of Southern literature."--Wilmington Star News"The Storied Southbring[s] these tales to life. . . . With Ferris as a guide, readers will get a revealing look at the region before air-conditioning and chain businesses, smartphones and corporate monoliths changed it forever."--RaleighNews & Observer"Southern voices heard again."--The Daily Tar Heel"Ferris offers a collection of his interviews with writers and artists he has come to know personally during 40 years of tramping around his native land."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution"Not to be missed. . . . This collection is a triumph of intelligent and provocative conversation."--Jackson Clarion-Ledger