Greg Iles ☮️
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#1 NYT Bestselling Author. Penn Cage #7 coming May 2024! Iles’s novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries.
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In 2015 John Grisham & I enlisted Morgan Freeman, Archie Manning, Jesmyn Ward, Jimmy Buffett & more MS natives to remove Confederate banner from the MS flag. But MS flag STILL honors the war to preserve slavery. True equality will never exist under our present flag. Change NOW.
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All my life I've wondered why my native Mississippi was near the top of states receiving the most federal aid, yet progress against poverty seemed non-existent. I think at last the answer is coming clear: it's greed. It's evil.
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Mississippi has been last in everything good for too damn long. We all know it, and I ain’t proud of it. If this was football, we’d have fired the coach years ago. Vote for
@BrandonPresley
and start us in the right direction! MS can be great if enough good folks pull together.
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Sing Hallelujah! Mississippi legislators just voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state flag!
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I just typed THE END on my newest novel CEMETERY ROAD. Experiencing simultaneous elation and exhaustion. Also drinking a bigass gin-n-tonic! (Bigass presents a dilemma: to hyphenate or not?) I’ll have another big-ass drink in a minute and ponder the dilemma... 🍾🥂
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Sadly,
@nelsondemille
died yesterday. This generous writer blurbed my first book back in '93, was so kind & cool when we met later on. A Vietnam vet, his war novel WORD OF HONOR transcended genre, had a stunning twist ending, and should absolutely be made into a streaming series.
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9 years ago today I was driving this car. Sorry to be repetitive, but every year I thank the universe that I'm still conscious and part of it. This year passed in the blink of an eye, but every day mattered. Every day. Stay safe everybody.
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Claiming a 2001 rerendum on the Mississippi flag is culturally valid is like Americans in 1950 voting on something, and claiming that would be valid for 1969. That was two different Americas. So are 2001 and 2020.
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This beats the hell out of making bestseller lists. There’s no feeling like pleasing someone I respect as much as SK.
CEMETERY ROAD, by Greg Iles: Pure reading pleasure. This guy knows the deep south as well or better than any other novelist.
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First actual copy of Cemetery Road! Valentine present from Morrow.
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Why does the South make it so hard? First Alabama gave us Tommy Tuberville, who thought he should run the DOD. Then Louisiana gave us Mike Johnson, who claims he's Moses. Why do I feel like some Mississippi politician is saying, "Hold my beer, Bubba. Imma show 'em how it's done."
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Cleaned up my workspace tonight prior to writing. Two weeks left to finish the conclusion to Penn and Tom's story. Ten years in the making. Whew. Shattering ending. Yet not all decided...
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Watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for 1st time in years. Sentimental? Yeah. But it’s about the best of America. Anybody who thinks old man Potter’s ruthless greed is the path to greatness can suck it. I’m with Jimmy Stewart. And he flew B24s over Germany in WW2. That’s a man.
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When furious Trumpers still tell me to stick to writing, not politics, I think of this 2016 cartoon. A trenchant analysis of the Trumper psychology. Either simple or profound--I can't decide. And if this makes u angry, ask yourself why.
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I'm praying Zelensky has good security people misleading the world about his location. Russian Spetsnaz have got to be hunting him around the clock. He's got to stay free and speaking for his people...
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When you die and more than one state claims you, you prob'ly done good. 2 great Mississippi boys here, one gone now. "Mother Mother Ocean, after all the years I've found, my occupational hazard bein' my occupation's just not around..." RIP Jimmy Buffett. So sorry, Coral Reefers.
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Chadwick Boseman and Julia Reed gone the same day. That is one crappy day. I’m sitting down to a night of writing about Mississippi in 1861, thinking of both of them—gone too soon.
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@cusslerOFFICIAL
@thecreativepenn
@GregIles
I met Clive Cussler at Bouchercon after the pub of my first novel. He was warm, gracious, and larger than life. He gave me good advice and made me feel welcome in an industry I was new to. RIP Clive, a real gentleman who knew how to live.
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I just felt a rare but deep blast of Jimmy Stewart optimism. Come November, the majority of Americans are going to look back on all this spineless kowtowing to a bum & all the low-rent corruption of once-hallowed institutions & say FUCK THIS. We're flushing y'all down the toilet!
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When a draft dodger spends his time attacking a dead combat vet, by God, that’s enough. I don’t know how Republicans stand silent in the face of that. Fear, I guess. Where is the America I grew up in?
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Hey guys, I hate to bother anyone, but Mississippi Blood just made the semifinal cut for Best Books of the Year. Please vote for it (and fellow MS writers
@jesmimi
and
@angiecthomas
!) at the link below. Thanks! Greg
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My chemo nurse, Heather, teasing me on launch day for “Southern Man” that she saw “Mr. Grisham” on CBS this morning!
I told her Mr. Grisham gave me a great blurb this time, so no hard feelings. Also, Lester interviewed me on “Footprints of God,” and he was cool.
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To all my readers: thank you! "Cemetery Road" will debut at
#2
on the New York Times bestseller list, just behind the wonderful "Where the Crawdads Sing," and just above "Daisy Jones and the Six," which I'm reading now and digging as a musician. Competitive list, varied and fun.
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When I was an 8th-grade football player, some 9th graders chased me thru the halls w scissors to try to cut my "hippie" hair. (Let's just say they didn't want it bad enough. Blows exchanged.) That black kid in TX deserves to go to class w his dreads. Screw the school board.
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Way down Cemetery Road in Natchez, headed for Anna’s Bottom. Magical. Writers, you need to know where the dirt roads go.
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Thanks to
@johngrisham
who called Southern Man "a first-rate political thriller. . . an unflinching look at the frightening rise of fascism and Trumpism." It's on sale now. Check it out!
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From 1947-1991 we fought & won the Cold War. The sacrifices & commitment were enormous, the global costs incalculable.
These gutless wimps are now pissing that victory away, to please a bum who serves a KGB-trained killer. There's no GOP. Only these clowns & Vance who knowsbetter
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PS That is my 17th novel. If you told me I would do that when I started at age 29, I’d never have believed it. Gotta maintain some perspective!
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Time for asymmetrical warfare, Jack.
Indict Ginni Thomas.
The Supreme Court will poop its collective drawers. They will eat each other alive behind closed doors.
They asked for it.
Give 'em what they asked for.
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Today's the day! Southern Man, the new thriller featuring Penn Cage, is on sale wherever you buy your books. Hardcover, ebook, digital audio.
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Every good author understands that sacrifice is the essence of heroism. Thankfully every President but one understood that. Yesterday Trump revealed that either (1) he doesn't (2) worse, he does & ridicules the idea. Incomprehensible he was ever commander in chief. Never again.
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In 1973 Jim Croce (age 30) died in a plane crash 103 miles from my house. 4 years later, Ronnie van Zant (age 29) died when Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed 33 miles from my house. Sometimes I listen to "Operator" or "Tuesday's Gone" and think about what was lost. A hell of a lot.
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There are no smaller minds in America than those of state GOP legislators who believe they have the right to force their fellow Americans to live by their provincial attitudes. Who see no separation between church and state, and who ignore science. More corrupt yes--smaller, no.
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Just a little over a month until my new Penn Cage novel Southern Man goes on sale May 28th. To tide y’all over until pub day, here’s a giveaway on Goodreads – good luck!
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Good news! The second trade review for Southern Man also carries a ⭐, this time from
@ALA_Booklist
. “Astonishingly good… Politically charged and written in rich, visually evocative prose, this is Iles at his reader-thrilling best.” Learn more:
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Symbols have more power than we admit. Though we still have far to travel, a shadow of the past has been swept from the skies over Mississippi, and the light of hope shines for all on our road. We face forward at last. To all those who left... think about coming home.
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In a spiritual and moral sense, the resistance fighters of Ukraine are more American than Marjorie Taylor Greene will ever be.
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The first novel in my Natchez Burning Trilogy is on sale in ebook for the whole month of January for just $1.99. And it includes a sneak peek of my new novel Southern Man, coming out May 28th! Get caught up on Penn Cage before it comes out. Download now:
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Starred, boxed review for my new book from Publishers Weekly! Happy to see this. 🎉🎉🥂
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Honored to find my Natchez Burning trilogy on
@CrimeReads
list of series that defined the decade—with the other selected writers but also the honorable mentions. Great writers all, and some who inspired me early on.
The CrimeReads staff has assembled what we feel are the ten fiction series that defined the 2010s. Thoughts?
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Mississippi's welfare grift relied on the most well-meaning whites. We bought the stereotype that even w massive $$ help, the black poor simply couldn't help themselves. So we never looked 2 close. But they never got the damn money. Racism was the mechanism for the SOBs-n-Charge.
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Book-banners are book-burners in training. Book-burners are Nazis in training. And Mississippi has more than its share. Book-banners are cowards who fear truth. They do not have the intellectual tools for honest debate. They live in fear and anger.
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Tracy Chapman at the Grammys... a light in the dark. A full metal band with a wall of stacked Marshalls couldn't hit a crowd any harder or reach any deeper. (Not even if their amps go to eleven.)
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8 years ago today I was driving this car. Today I’m riding to my 2nd booksigning for my 17th novel, and I have a one-year-old son. Thankful for all my kids and to be alive. And for my…
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Religious fundamentalism—and the arrogant, selfish, often violent compulsion to force it upon others—is the most destructive force in human history.
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Makes me smile to know Dr. Anthony Fauci is smarter & more accomplished than 99.9999% of the MAGA’s, Trumpers, and Republicans who wasted hours insulting and threatening him. I hope he’s lying on a beach somewhere now (or working in a lab) if he wants. Chill, Tony.
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Look at this Advance Reader’s Edition! May 28th will be here before we know it.
#southernman
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We’ve been at war since March, and the casualties are staggering. A small percentage have served in the trenches. Docs, nurses, grocery workers, cleaners, truck drivers, and more—we owe them all, those frontline troops, more than we can repay. Never forget that. And try anyway.
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We lost several huge oaks in the Delta storm last night. Thankfully none hit the house. But it still sucks. Power out all over the county.
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Turned in Book 3 of the trilogy. Having a nice f'ing break in my home studio. Music is life...
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Tour's over! Headed back 2 Natchez! Thx 2 all who came out to visit and who made Mississippi Blood no. 1! More2come!
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My publisher's giving away 100 advance copies of my new novel "Cemetery Road." Late announcement--2 days left--my bad! Go to link to enter. Must be 18 and American (sorry Canadian fans! and all other international readers).
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You don’t reason with a cornered rat-boss. You don’t psychoanalyze him. You scare the rats behind him into eating him alive.
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Can you believe it? Just 3 weeks until my new thriller Southern Man is in bookstores everywhere. Preordering is always a great way to have it in hand the day it goes on sale. I’m not touring this year, so if you want a signed book…
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Super-fun day today rehearsing in Steve’s garage!
Gettin' the band back together. Left to right: Ridley Pearson, Greg Iles, me, and Dave Barry.
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@AlanBaxter
@peterstraubnyc
Koko, Mystery, and The Throat are sui generis. Taken together, they may be the greatest trilogy ever written in crime fiction. But they also transcend the genre in some indefinable way. Once read, they never leave you. Never.
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My son Elliot says Happy Pub Day, Dad, by I’m gonna read somebody else’s book.
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Saying "Abortion should be left to the states" as though you're somehow being tolerant or giving women options is like saying in 1965: "Education should be left to the states." Had they, the Deep South would still be fully segregated in education. (and better, you silently say?)
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Just signed books at Reed’s, Tupelo, MS. Elvis’s mama worked for the Reeds, and Elvis wore their overalls! Headed to Oxford for tonight’s gig!
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Rehearsing for last night’s gig at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Steve standing where Prince played Purple Rain. I’m faking slide on Tom Petty...
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Publisher gearing up! Still months to release, but excitement building.
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My dad always tried to get me to read Michael Shaara’s “The Killer Angels.” I never did while he was alive, but yesterday that changed. It stunned me. A phenomenal piece of psychological writing. Can’t recommend highly enough. I so wish I’d shared it with Dad. He knew good work.
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As a member of the Natchez mayor’s task force, I will be tweeting or retweeting info useful to the vulnerable citizens of Natchez, MS. To my readers, please forgive the Covid-19 or local info posts. And stay safe. PS REREADING favorite books is a great pastime!
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Thanks Molly! The third book is the best of the three. You find out the truth about Tom and Viola!
First book was so good I found myself reading in the drive-thru of a Dunkin’ Donuts like some crazy woman who just had to know. Hallelujah, today I finished the second in the series. Am now possessed with going out to get the third.
@GregIles
— you got me.
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Great to see CEMETERY ROAD on this list of the most eagerly awaited books of 2019! Gearing up for publicity and book tour...
A look ahead at the best and most eagerly awaited books of 2019, featuring new fiction from
@alisongaylin
,
@LauraMLippman
, Ellroy, Kerr, and nonfiction crime from
@praddenkeefe
,
@ev_rat
, and more.
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Bless the nurses and healthcare workers of Mississippi. They are fighting a second-front war that should never have broken out. Exhausted and understaffed, they fight on.
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Sheltering since 3-9, but living in the country makes it bearable. Once a day we visit the cows & horses. (Doritos on Elliot’s hands—key element of the Iles’ post-apocalyptic stockpile). Apologies if you’re stuck in an apt or city! Stay safe.
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Relieved that even Mike Johnson in the end realized that if we want to call ourselves a superpower, and honor the sacrifices of our forefathers, then we must ignore our minority of fools and show the world that America remains the arsenal of democracy. Potential foes, think hard.
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From the time I was a boy, the conformists who followed the rules and mouthed the beliefs they were told to--who never questioned any of it, or gave up in the face of ambiguity--but who tried to bully or ridicule those of us who did question--I knew in my gut they were dangerous.
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I just saw American citizens on TV who believe that Donald Trump is still President, that he never stopped being President. Is it REALLY possible that millions of Americans are this mentally impaired? If so... God help us. If you are among these... seek mental help.
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Staggering that millions of Americans still support the traitorous cowards who attacked these cops defending the capitol and the constitution. If you’re one of them, just get off my Twitter. Don’t even bother replying.
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Uvalde dealt a blow to the myth of the tough Texas lawman from which it will never recover. Children & teachers braver than the cops sent to save them. If spineless NRA pimps like Abbott, McConnell, & Cruz don’t allow reasonable change, we must CRUSH them. Show them what tough is
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The more I watch the Supreme Court, the more I think they're like two people having an affair. They have this shared delusion of invisibility, as if no one can detect their blatant corruption (while everyone does). But--maybe it's simply the megalomania of infinite tenure...
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I’m in the New York Times Book Review’s “By the Book” feature today. Check it out here.
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I sang Sam Stone & Hello In There to a lot of drunks in a lot of bars. And more times than not they shut up and sat there till a tear came into their eyes. A writer who can touch people like that is as good as anybody who ever lived. Anybody. This is a sad day.
@JohnPrineMusic
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2 weeks is nothing, they pass in the blink of an eye. It still feels like too long to wait, though. Am I right?
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The Sunday School bullies of Alabama aren't pro-life. They're pro-power. Over women. Over families. Once again they lift Mississippi up one notch on quality of life. But it makes me nervous.
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Mississippi Blood named one of the Best Books of the Year in Canada. Thanks to those Canadians I’ve met so far, and I hope I meet the rest of you someday!
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I love football. I played in two state championships in high school. But let us work to make Mississippi a state where it doesn’t take pressure from football stars & donors to make some of our “leaders” do the right thing.
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Strangely creepy that Robert Kennedy, a great man who, had he lived, might have put America on a far better track than the one we lived through in the 70s, 80s, etc, produced a son who, by running third-party in 2024, might destroy American democracy by returning Trump to office.
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Preorder today for SOUTHERN MAN! Not a bad Christmas gift in my opinion.
#gregiles
#southernman
#penncage
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Independent booksellers across the country are supporting me and my new book, Southern Man, by carrying signed copies. Preorder your signed copy (the only way to get an autographed hardcover) from one of these great indies.
On sale 5/28!
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Got new nerd ride 4
Earthbound leg of upcoming book tour today! Also finishing final edit of "Mississippi Blood."
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Mississippi Blood nominated for one of Best Books of the Year. Vote today! Angie Thomas in diff category for THUG. Go Mississippi writers!
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Grab this ebook bundle for
#NatchezBurning
Trilogy to catch up before
#SouthernMan
comes out May 28!
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The deeper you go into
#BlackSails
, the better it gets. Writing superior, classic acting by Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Toby Schmitz, et al--and 3 powerful female roles, each working a different form of power. Plus "Master and Commander"-level sea battles. Bravo!
@BlackSailsCast
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Father of outgoing Natchez mayor Darryl Grennell helped save John Lewis from the KKK by racing down backroads as a member of the secret “Black Dot Club.” Only three of those heroes left alive now.
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A feature on my good friend Tate Taylor, the director who is doing so much to help Natchez and Church Hill, Mississippi thrive. He and partner John Norris have more positive energy than anyone you've met in a long time.
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