Mark Powell pulls double duty to talk about both writing (as the author of four novels, most recently, THE SHELTERING) and MFA programs (he helped start the program at Stetson University). They chat about Mark's circuitous route to writing from his childhood in South Carolina to his time in divinity school to his slow realization that he needed to write about his own life.

Mark and James discuss:

The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Sports Illustrated

LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry

John Grisham

Eudora Welty

Flannery O'Connor

William Faulkner

Cormac McCarthy

The New Yorker

NPR

The Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel

James Dickey

Janette Turner Hospital

Ron Rash

Les Murray

Seamus Heaney

William Butler Yeats

THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE by Pat Conroy

Story River Books

Carson McCullers

William Gay

Don DeLillo

RESUSCITATION OF A HANGED MAN by Denis Johnson

Noam Chomsky

PLAYERS by Don DeLillo

Howard Zinn

"Beverly Home" by Denis Johnson

Chantel Acevedo

Patricia Engel

Edwidge Danticat

Francisco Goldman

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