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Xan Brooks is a journalist at Yahoo News UK. He specializes in arts and entertainment, with a focus on film and cinema, covering topics such as movies, books, and notable figures like Idris Elba and Quentin Tarantino.

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Every year the Falmouth English and Creative Writing course host a new writer-in-residence, and this year we have writer and film critic Xan Brooks.

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Every year the Falmouth English and Creative Writing course host a new writer-in-residence, and this year we have writer and film critic Xan Brooks.

The Best Historical Fiction Set in the American South

How did you become interested in historical fiction set in the American South?

I went to university in the United States. I wasn’t in the South; I was in Massachusetts, but I got very into Southern literature while I lived there. In my late teens and early twenties I was obsessed with the place, the literature, and the music as well. I read masses over that period of time, and periodically I revisit it.

I’ve also travelled in the South—to the Carolinas, Mississippi, New Orleans—as a tourist, but smart enough to at least realise the extent of my ignorance. I was a liberal white kid from England thinking, ‘Wow, everything here is about slavery, this terrible dark history’, which is of course true, but but it’s more complicated than that. The South is a mess, a minefield, but it’s like a concertina file. There’s all this history bunched right up together, huggle-muggle, tightly folded, past and present.

The paradox is that,

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But that's what makes it such an effective literary setting, says Xan Brooks—author of The Catchers, a story of Blues music and exploitation that unfolds in the Mississippi Delta.

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	Xan Brooks is a journalist at Yahoo News UK. He specializes in arts and entertainment, with a focus on film and cinema, covering topics such as movies, books, and notable figures like Idris Elba and Quentin Tarantino.
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But that's what makes it such an effective literary setting, says Xan Brooks—author of The Catchers, a story of Blues music and exploitation that unfolds in the Mississippi Delta.

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Xan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster, and at the end of his term as Falmouth University’s Writer in Residence.

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Now, as a monumental BFI retrospective kicks off, can their stricken pilots and posh ballerinas speak to our divided era?