{"id":19122,"date":"2014-11-20T17:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2015-11-10T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:20:09","slug":"the-influence-of-larry-brown-mississippi-writer-july-9-1951-november-24-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-influence-of-larry-brown-mississippi-writer-july-9-1951-november-24-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The Influence of Larry Brown, Mississippi Writer (July 9, 1951 &#8211; November 24, 2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brown_Larry.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"546\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19127\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brown_Larry.jpg?resize=600%2C546\" alt=\"Brown_Larry\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brown_Larry.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brown_Larry.jpg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\u201cAround the time I started to get serious about writing, a friend gave me a copy of <em>Big Bad Love<\/em> and everything changed. The stories were\u00a0effortlessly honest, muscular and lean; quick and devastatingly beautiful\u2014thoroughbreds, all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/J-Tinney-porch-steps-color_whiteborder.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"771\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/J-Tinney-porch-steps-color_whiteborder.jpg?resize=600%2C771\" alt=\"J-Tinney-porch-steps-color_whiteborder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/J-Tinney-porch-steps-color_whiteborder.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/J-Tinney-porch-steps-color_whiteborder.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Equally compelling was his biography\u2014a\u00a0guy who had no formal training in writing. He decided to be a writer and taught\u00a0himself. Larry Brown made me feel like it was possible, like he had just handed me a driver\u2019s license. The day after he died, someone sent me a note saying they were sorry because\u00a0they\u00a0knew how much\u00a0Mr. Brown\u00a0meant to me.\u00a0I didn\u2019t know he had died. It broke my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 22pt;\">\u00a0\u201cOn my book shelf, which is in no [deliberate] order, there\u2019s a\u00a0Bible and then there is Larry Brown who is followed by Faulkner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u2013 Jason Tinney, author, blues harp player; <em>Ripple Meets the Deep <\/em>(CityLit Press, 2014), <\/strong><em>excerpted by <strong>Rafael Alvarez<\/strong>, contributor to <\/em>The Local Voice<em> and author, <\/em>Tales From the Holy Land<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LarryBrownCourthouse_andquote.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19123\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LarryBrownCourthouse_andquote.jpg?resize=640%2C357\" alt=\"LarryBrownCourthouse_andquote\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LarryBrownCourthouse_andquote.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LarryBrownCourthouse_andquote.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAround the time I started to get serious about writing, a friend gave me a copy of Big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":19130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-history","category-local-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LarryBrown_FEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}