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Benjamin franklin walter isaacson5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() An easygoing guy, but there were things roiling underneath. From his face you could tell he had known despair, but his eyes still smiled. And I realized, Oh, you can be a writer when you grow up.’ It was like being an engineer or a doctor or a fisherman, or anything else you could be in Louisiana. And then, The Moviegoer came out, when I was about nine years old. And we used to say to Ann, his daughter, What does your dad do? He’s always at home drinking bourbon and eating hog’s head cheese. ![]() Percy, but he wasn’t a practicing doctor. As a boy, I grew up trying to figure out what Uncle Walker did, because he was a doctor. ![]() ISAACSON: I had a friend of the family, an uncle of a friend, Walker Percy, who played a part in this. HUMANITIES: When did you first become interested in current events, history, and writing? Even with all of the frictions that diversity causes, as it certainly did in the early 1960s in New Orleans, it led also to friendships and creativity. It’s where jazz came from, all the different influences, likewise, with the food or the literature of New Orleans. ![]() Earlier in the century, Louis Armstrong had grown up in pretty much the same neighborhood. And one thing I learned was this: The diversity of a city, like New Orleans, helps add to its creativity. WALTER ISAACSON: Growing up in the Central City and Broadmoor areas of New Orleans was particularly interesting because you had a racial and economic diversity. HUMANITIES: You were born in New Orleans and grew up there in the 1950s and ‘60s. ![]()
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