Journalist, writer, and podcaster Wes Ferguson talks to us about what makes a good story—and how in telling others' stories, you often have to reflect on your own.

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Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

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Hilton Als My Pinup

Hilton Als White Girls

Louis Paul Boon My Little War

Joel Ebert and Erik Schelzig Welcome to Capitol Hill: Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics

John R . Erickson Hank the Cowdog

Wes Ferguson The Blanco River

Wes Ferguson Devil Town

Wes Ferguson Running the River

Wes Ferguson Standoff

Wes Ferguson "When Angels in America Came to East Texas"

William T. Harper Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Hunstville, Texas

Elmer Kelton The Time It Never Rained

Tony Kushner Angels in America

Geert Mak In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century

James McBride The Good Lord Bird

Annie van den Oever Life Itself: Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel