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info. It's the bitterter Southerner Podcast from Georgia Public Broadcasting and the magazine I

edit The Bitter Southerner. I'm Chuck Reese and this is our final episode of season one and we're going to finish our first

trip around the podcasting sun with an ode to one of the South's greatest exports to the world, it's riding.

The written word is the foundation, the proverbial solid rock of the bitter southerner.

It's the blood in our veins, the oil in our engine, and one could argue that it's also the blood and the oil of the

entire south and we have certainly learned that our audience feels that way over the five years that we've been in business.

So I recently asked our subscribers, we call them bitter southerner family members, to talk

about their favorite southern riders.

And I was pleased to see that their tastes reflected the diversity of our region

with Jesmond Ward and Alice Walker and Zora Neil Hurston landing in the top 10 with the likes of

Flannery O'Connor William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Our readers also know

that the powerful hold our region maintains, even on the people who left it,

still shapes the way we live our lives.

Here's Jesmon Ward, one of the South's greatest living writers and a National Book Award winner.

Back in 2014, she talked with Georgia Public Broadcasting,

Celeste Hedley, about exactly that.

You know, in many ways, ways you know it's heartbreaking to read what happened to you and your family and what you went through and yet you've chosen to raise your daughter.

It's still in the South?

Why?

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