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Most of our writing, interestingly enough, about the Golden Isles is by journeyman, journey people. The traveler who doesn't stay. We don't have actually a huge literature of people who were born here, wrote about it and died here. And I think that's interesting because I've always said I've always believed that a place births its own writers to tell its stories. I really believe that.

And I think there's a reason that so many cool writers like Eudora Welty and William Faulkner came out of Mississippi. But it does lead me to wonder a little bit about the Georgia coast, about what got what got stifled that we don't really have that. You know, we have people like you, Anthony, who write a book, who come in and write a book, and that's incredibly useful and helpful.

But what about, where are our writers? Who. I mean, Eugenia Price comes the closest. And she has 19 books. Many of them… After 1961, she was writing solely about the Georgia coast. And it's all fiction, but she's not symbolizing the material, like the South is so often symbolized as burning crosses and Spanish moss and mint juleps and magnolias.

She really is not making hay out of the exoticness of the place but really just setting her characters and her conflicts in the place. But yeah, that's the question, is why hasn't this place birthed its own writers to tell the stories?

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Janisse Ray on the Georgia coast not having its own established literature

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