By James Scott
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In our first episode recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in the summer of 2022, Alexander Chee (How to Write an Autobiographical Novel) talks to James about his career, being the most photographed author in history, the late Randall Kenan, and Courtney Love. Plus legendary editor and founder and President of Words Without Borders, Alane Mason.
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In our fourth and final episode recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in the summer of 2021, Elena Passarello (Animals Strike Curious Poses) tells James about sleeping in Elvis's teenage bedroom, getting advice from long-haul truckers, and having screams sent to her. Plus the legendary Mary Flinn of Blackbird.
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The third summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2021) continues with M.O. Walsh (The Big Door Prize), who gives a writing tip James has used ever since, then chats about writing a novel you like, being under the influence of John Prine, and writing one of the greatest cocktail scenes ever. Plus, independent editor and member of the collective 5E Editors, Liz Van Hoose.
Sewanee Writers' Conference 2022 Applications due March 15!
Buy M.O. Walsh's books.
Work with Liz Van Hoose or 5E Editors.
Music courtesy of Bea Troxel.
Produced/ Mixed by Ryan Shea.
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The third summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2021) opens with the brilliance of Katie Kitamura (Intimacies, A Separation), who talks to James about pushing back on expectations, writing things you don't think you can, having your best reader in your own house, and the ghosts of edits past. Plus, the also brilliant author (The Office of Historical Corrections) and The Sewanee Review Editor-at-Large Danielle Evans.
Sewanee Writers' Conference 2022 Applications due March 15!
Subscribe to The Sewanee Review.
Buy Katie and Danielle's books from independent booksellers.
Music courtesy of Bea Troxel.
Produced/ Mixed by Ryan Shea.
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The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference continues with playwright Rachel Bonds, who tells James about finding her voice in a one-act, using jealousy as a job coach, being on the writing treadmill, and recognizing the struggles of those close to us. Plus, actor and Performing Prose co-founder Sean McIntyre.
http://www.sewaneewriters.org/ 2020 Applications due March 15!
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Rachel Bonds
Rachel and James discuss:
Olivier Sultan (agent)
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
Lisa D'Amour
Barack Obama
James Agee
George Saunders
Jennifer Egan
Kevin Wilson
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Sean McIntyre: https://www.performingprose.com/
Sean and James discuss:
THE SOPRANOS
Drew Barrymore
Middlebury College
Steve Yarbrough
Jim Shepard
ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare
THE SIMPSONS
LES MISERABLES music by Claude-Monet Schonberg
"Master of the House"
Emily Nemens
Tim O'Brien
SEINFELD
BREAKING BAD
THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA by Edward Albee
Dan O'Brien
Marilyn Nelson
SLINGS AND ARROWS
Keanu Reeves
The Stratford Festival
Performing Prose
Emily Shain
Anne Ray
Sewanee Writers' Conference-
Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/
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The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference continues with Tim O'Brien, who tells James about winning the National Book Award, writing THE THINGS THEY CARRIED while on a break from another book, not leaving a sentence until it's finished, being a father, knowing death, and recognizing the maybeness of it all. Plus, Missouri Review editor Speer Morgan.
http://www.sewaneewriters.org/ 2020 Applications due March 15!
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Tim O'Brien
Buy Tim's books: Buy Tim O'Brien's Books From Independent Booksellers
Tim and James discuss:
Sewanee Writers' Conference
Dan O'Brien
Christine Schutt
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER by John Cheever
Lizzie Borden
Jack the Ripper
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
THE BIBLE
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR by Herman Melville
Wyatt Prunty
Emily Nemens
Ernest Hemingway
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Speer Morgan: https://www.missourireview.com/
Speer and James discuss:
Middlebury College
The New England Review
Greg Michaelson
Jack Kerouac
Mark Twain
Tennessee Williams
Christine Schutt
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Kris Somerville's Curio Cabinet
Mike McClaskey
Dan O'Brien
"Fields of Empire" by Joan Silber
Daniel Woodrell
Susan Vreeland
Joanna Scott
Raymond Carver
Robert Olen Butler
Naguib Mahfouz
Gregory Rabassa
Philip K. Dick
Ursula Le Guin
Russell Banks
PBS
Henry Green
Robert Bly
Stephen Dunn
TR Hummer
Dave Smith
Annie Proulx
Edmund White
Ernest Gaines
Larry Brown
John Updike
Margaret Walker
Peter Matthiessen
Richard Ford
"Awakening to Jake" by Jillian Weiss
Henry James
Edith Wharton
CHERNOBYL
"Snow" by Kermit Frazier
A FAITHFUL BUT MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL BARBARITIES LATELY COMMITTED by Jason Brown
"Those Deep Elm Brown's Ferry Blues" by William Gay
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Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/
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The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference begins with James speaking with Marilyn Nelson, who has written poetry in many forms and for many audiences. Marilyn tells James about her fears of being pigeonholed as well as her love of musicality, embodying voices, and finding a way forward. Plus, Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers.
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Marilyn Nelson: https://marilyn-nelson.com/
Buy Marilyn's books: Shop your local indie bookstore for Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn and James discuss:
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Igor Stravinsky
Maurice Manning
Wyatt Prunty
Childcraft Books
Sara Teasdale
Gwendolyn Brooks
Linda Ronstadt "Songs for My Father"
Norton's Anthology of Children's Literature
Stephen Roxburgh
Front Street Publishing
Augusta Savage
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Michael Wiegers: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/authors/michael-wiegers/
Copper Canyon Press: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/
Michael and James discuss:
The New York Times
Goodreads
Amazon
Michiko Kakutani
Ocean Vuong
RAILSPLITTER by Maurice Manning
Melissa Stein
Coffee House Press
W.S. Merwin
Robert Graves
Alan Brilliant
Unicorn Press
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Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/
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Kevin Wilson's fifth book, the novel NOTHING TO SEE HERE, is a perfect combination of everything that made his previous work so singular: the humor and edge of THE FAMILY FANG, the intensity of his short fiction, and the heart and earnestness of PERFECT LITTLE WORLD. He and James talk depicting basketball, writing being fun and versatile, keeping it short, and lacking a radar for weirdness. Plus, Ecco executive editor Zachary Wagman.
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Kevin Wilson: https://www.wilsonkevin.com/
Buy NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Buy NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Kevin's work mentioned: "Blowing up on the Spot", PERFECT LITTLE WORLD, TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE FAMILY FANG, Buzzfeed essay: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevinwilson/i-cant-save-my-son-from-the-anxiety-ive-passed-on-to-him.
Kevin and James discuss:
PLOUGHSHARES
Laura van den Berg
Lee Boudreaux
Harry Potter
The Southern Voices Festival
"A to B" from A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan
Caki Wilkinson
Latina Davis
Kim Woodley
Grundy County
Franklin County
Kansas State
University of Florida
Patrick Ewing
Hakeem Olajuwon
Kevin McHale
THE DART LEAGUE KING by Keith Lee Morris
"Boys Town" by Jim Shepard
Harvard University
THE NEW YORKER
Calvin Trillin
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by Shirley Jackson
A MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by Carson McCullers
MRS. CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls
GOODBYE, VITAMIN by Rachel Khong
TREASURE ISLAND!!! by Sara Levine
BAD MARIE by Marcy Dermansky
THE LONGSHOT by Katie Kitamura
TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson
Christine Schutt
Steven Millhauser
Larry Bird
Johnny Storm, "The Human Torch"
Julie Barer
Ecco
Greensboro Review
Nicole Kidman
Keith Urban
Christopher Walken
Ryan Call
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Zachary Wagman: @zackwagman
Zack and James discuss:
THE FAMILY FANG
BABY, YOU'RE GONNA BE MINE
PERFECT LITTLE WORLD
Saturday Night Live
ALA
The Lead Read
The Today Show
Vintage
Crown
Dennis Lehane
Dan Halpern
Hogarth
Knopf
New England Patriots
Gillian Flynn
Pulitzer Prize
Nobel Prize
YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha
COLD STORAGE by David Koepp
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Calvin Hennick jokingly calls his memoir, ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO, "every thought I've ever had," and the book touches on fatherhood, manhood, race, family, alcohol, baseball, and countless other topics, all considered on a road trip to his childhood hometown with his young son. He talks to James about having the memoir roundly rejected until it won the Pushcart Press Editor's Award, walking around naked in front of the reader, and not solving all of the world's problems. Plus, the legendary Bill Henderson of Pushcart Press.
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Calvin Hennick: https://twitter.com/calvinhennick?lang=en
Buy ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO: Buy ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO
Calvin and James discuss:
The Chunky Monkeys
THE BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE
Grub Street
Boston Red Sox
Adam Jones
Baltimore Orioles
Curt Schilling
Fenway Park
GET OUT dir by Jordan Peele
Cooperstown, NY
Baseball Hall of Fame
PLEASANTVILLE dir by Gary Ross
Jackie Robinson
Millicent Bennett
Grand Central Publishing
Pushcart Editor's Prize
Bill Henderson
APOCALYPSE NOW dir by Francis Ford Coppola
BUSINESS INSIDER
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Chip Cheek
Whitney Scharer
Jenn DeLeon
THE BODY PAPERS by Grace Talusan
Franz Kafka
James Joyce
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Bill Henderson: http://pushcartprize.com/
Buy THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY: Buy the PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY
Bill and James discuss:
THE KID THAT COULD
THE PUBLISH IT YOURSELF HANDBOOK by Bill Henderson
The Pushcart Prize
Anais Nin
Buckminster Fuller
Ralph Ellison
Joyce Carol Oates
Doubleday
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mattel Toys
Random House
WW Norton & Co.
ESQUIRE
Central Park
ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO by Calvin Hennick
Little, Brown
Millicent Bennett
POETS & WRITERS
Cooperstown
Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox
WASHINGTON POST
YOU ARE NOT A GADGET by Jaron Lanier
GARDEN STATE by Rick Moody
THE TALE OF THE RING: A KADDISH: A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF THE HOLOCAUST by Frank Stiffel
A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER: THE GREAT HAMPTONS HURRICANE OF 1938 by Genie Chipps Henderson
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The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.