Our first conversation of 2024 is with John T. Edge. He's an acclaimed author, the host of TrueSouth on ESPN/SEC Network, Director of the Mississippi Lab at the University of Mississippi, the founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, resident of Oxford, Mississippi and child of Jones County, Georgia.

In this episode John T. takes us back to his childhood in Clinton, Georgia, talks about the infuence his mother and father have had on his life, explores the vicissitudes of his career, shares his fascination with lost worlds and underworlds and Underground Atlanta, gives us a lesson on change, and recounts how Oxford, MS became his true homeplace.

All things John T. Edge:

johntedge.com

TrueSouth on ESPN

The Mississippi Lab

Southern Foodways Alliance

Mentioned in this episode:

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry

My Mother's Catfish Stew by John T. Edge | Oxford American

The Angolite, Prison Acitivist Resource Center

William Price Fox

The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker

White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

Alberto Cruz Art

General Alfred Iverson's Birthplace Historical Marker - Clinton, Jones County, Georgia

Senator Iverson's Speech - January11, 1860

Janisse Ray

King Coal by Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Blair Hobbs - University of Mississippi

Remembering Emmett Till by Dave Tell

Gorilla by Lee Stockdale

Underground Atlanta

Dante's Down the Hatch

Natasha Trethewey

A Place Like Mississippi by W. Ralph Eubanks

Clinnesha Sibley - Story Made Podcast