Write On, Mississippi!
79 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPour yourself a sweet tea, pull up a lawn chair, and turn the page with us. You're listening to Write on, Mississippi. A podcast taking you inside the minds of America’s most treasured wordsmiths. Brought to you through a partnership of the Mississippi Book Festival — the South’s literary lawn party — and Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 5: Patrick deWitt
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBJoin New York Times bestselling author Patrick deWitt as he talks to Matt Sawyer about his newest novel, The Librarianist. The story follows retired librarian Bob Comet. The book is billed as a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert's condition. Patrick deWitt: Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels French Exit (a national bestseller), The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize), and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor an...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 6: Tyriek White
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBWriter, educator, musician, and University of Mississippi MFA graduate from Brooklyn, NY, delves into his debut novel We Are a Haunting. Tyriek White: Tyriek Rashawn White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora. He has received fellowships from Callaloo Writing Workshop, New York State Writers Institute, and Key Wes...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 4: Jamila Minnicks
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction delves into her debut novel, Moonrise Over New Jessup, with Story Made Project podcast host Matt Sawyer. Jamila Minnicks: Jamila Minnicks’ novel Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023) won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. In 2022, she was awarded a Tennessee Williams scholarship for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and she also earned a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. ...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 1: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBAnnette Saunooke Clapsaddle discusses her debut novel, Even As We Breath, with her friend and fellow North Carolinian, Matt Sawyer. The book made Clapsaddle the first member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians the first member to publish a novel. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and resides in Qualla, NC with her husband, Evan and sons Ross and Charlie. She holds degrees from Yale University and the Col...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 3: James McBride
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBListen in as America's storyteller, James McBride, discusses his latest masterpiece, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, with guest host and one of McBride's biggest fans, Matt Sawyer. James McBride: James McBride is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Oprah's Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, the American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and K...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 2: Harrison Scott Key
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBJoin our guest host, Matt Sawyer, creator of the Story Made Project podcast, as he chats with one of America's favorite humorists, Harrison Scott Key, about his newest memoir, How to Stay Married: The Craziest Love Story Ever Told. Hear how Harrison balances humor with gut-wrenching honesty and self-examination. Harrison Scott Key: Harrison Scott Key is the author of three books, including his newest book, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told, as well as The World's Lar...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 8: Michael W. Twitty
November 15, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBSit back, relax, bring your appetite, and listen in on a conversation between our host, Ebony Lumumba, and James Beard award-winning food writer and historian, Michael W. Twitty. In Twitty’s newest, Koshersoul, he takes us on a personal journey through African and Jewish culinary traditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 3: Rinker Buck
November 15, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBJoin book festival board member Chris Goodwin as he chats with Rinker Buck about his latest nonfiction triumph, Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure. Buck gives Goodwin the nuts and bolts of building and maneuvering a historic flatboat down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 6: Juhea Kim
November 15, 2022 06:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBJoin our guest host, Sarah Story, as she talks with Juhea Kim about her debut novel, Beasts of a Little Land, an epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 4: Olivia Clare Friedman
November 15, 2022 06:00 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBOlivia Clare Friedman sits down with Sarah Story to discuss her award-winning debut novel, Here Lies. Listen in as they discuss the book, which explores mourning, memory, and motherhood in a future Louisiana ravaged by climate change. Find hope in the beautifully told tale of grief and loss made bearable by the unexpected creation of a found family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 7: Joshua Nguyen
November 15, 2022 06:00 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBJoin Texas-native poet Joshua Nguyen and guest host Sarah Story as they discuss Nguyen’s award-winning poetry collection, Come Clean. Poems in the collection aim to confront the speaker’s past by physically and mentally, cleaning up. Come Clean unpacks, organizes, and tidies up life’s messy joys and hurtful chaos with intimacy, grace, and vulnerability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 5: Beverly Lowry
November 15, 2022 06:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBCALLING ALL TRUE CRIME LOVERS! Mississippi Delta native and author Beverly Lowry discusses her newest nonfiction work centered on a murder that rocked her Delta community when she was a child. Through rigorous research, one-on-one interviews, and her childhood recollections, Lowry sheds light on a decades-old murder case shrouded in mystery and injustice since that fateful, bloody day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 2: Imani Perry
April 29, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBJoin our host Ebony Lumumba as she talks with author and professor, Imani Perry about her latest book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Perry is the author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation. She is also the author of Breath...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 1: Antoine Wilson
March 08, 2022 18:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBSit back, relax, and listen as Antoine Wilson discusses Mouth to Mouth, his fresh new novel with Ellen Daniels of the Mississippi Book Festival. Antoine Wilson is the author of the novels Panorama City and The Interloper. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, Best New American Voices, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications, and he is a contributing editor of A Public Space. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recipient of a Carol Houck Smith Fictio...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 24: Windows to the Past
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBGripping suspense, extraordinary heroism, and enduring love--set against the high stakes of wartime--resonate in these magnificently timeless stories of survival against all odds. Panelists: Ariel Lawhon is a critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction. She is the author of THE WIFE THE MAID AND THE MISTRESS, FLIGHT OF DREAMS, I WAS ANASTASIA, and the CODE NAME HÉLÈNE. Her books have been translated into numerous languages and have been Library Reads, One ...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 5: Civil Rights
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBPeriod photographs of pivotal moments, first-person stories from history, and the trail of Black America’s fight for freedom and equality present a vivid look at the movement that transformed America. Panelists: DEBORAH D. DOUGLAS is the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and a senior leader with The OpEd Project, leading thought leadership fellowships and programs that include the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, Dartmouth ...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 8: The Gulf South
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 67 MBTake a deep dive into the Gulf Coast with authors whose works illuminate the human impact on the Gulf Coast region's history, ecology, industry, commerce, and culture--from its role in the Revolutionary war to the impact of environmental disasters. Panelists: Chris McLaughlin is founder and executive director of the Animal Rescue Front. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston with a BA in earth sciences, she lives in Massachusetts with two cats. This is her first book. Dr. C...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 16: Myths and Consequences
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBNavigate the history of the Lost Cause myth, the raising and removal of its most visible symbols, and the pathway toward solidarity and racial justice with a panel of authors steeped in the struggle. Panelists: Howard Hunter is a native of New Orleans and a history teacher 38 years. He has published articles on New Orleans and the Civil War for both academic and general audiences. He is past president of the Louisiana Historical Society. Tearing Down the Lost Cause with co-author James Gil...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 11: KidNote with Nic Stone
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 55 MBFor the 2021 KidNote event, Nic discusses her new book, Clean Getaway with Tonya Murphy of the Mississippi Book Festival Nic Stone is an Atlanta native and a Spelman College graduate. After working extensively in teen mentoring and living in Israel for several years, she returned to the United States to write full-time. Nic’s debut novel for young adults, Dear Martin, was a New York Times bestseller and a William C. Morris Award finalist. She is also the author of the teen titles Odd One Ou...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 18: Personal Reflections
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBOften funny and always profound, these authors plumb the connections made and the mysteries that abound in stories examining landscapes, life, and survival. Panelists: Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the New York Times best-selling author of WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS, finalist for the Kirkus Prize in non-fiction, and recently named the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. She is also the author of four books of poetry, and is poetry editor of SIER...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 4: Book Club Picks
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBFrom escapist thrills to stories of self-discovery and solace, these authors discuss their most recent can’t-put-it-down books sure to keep your Book Club talking about compelling characters in evocative settings. Panelists: With almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages, Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 28 novels, including the popular Charleston-set Tradd Street mystery series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Nig...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 9: Human and Nature
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBFrom mountaintop to seashore to scientific possibilities, these authors tuck into rich history, daring frontiers, and the ways we humans embrace, interact with, and impact our home planet. Panelists: Cynthia Barnett is the author of three previous books, including Rain, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and named a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. She lives with her family in Gainesville, Florida, where she is also Environmental Journalis...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 3: All About Hub City Press
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBHear all about the Southern indie publisher, Hub City Press, and their larger-than-life authors. Panelists: Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, award-winning journalist, and activist. She writes a political column for ZORA magazine and teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Reinhardt University. Her recent essays and articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Newsday, The Nation, Longreads, The Georgia Review, Guernica, Al Jazeera, and The Paris Review. She lives with her fami...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 22: Southern Writers
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBTalented Southern authors discuss standout characters that compel readers to come along on exciting journeys that seek to tackle questions of self-determination, life’s potential, and our duty to each other. Panelists: Gin Phillips is the author of six novels, ranging from historical fiction to literary thriller to middle grade. Her work has been sold in 29 countries. Gin's debut novel, The Well and the Mine, won the 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Her recent novel, Fierce Kingdom, was...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 7: Drawing on Imagination
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 76.8 MBExplore the diverse and vivid landscape of children’s literature with author/illustrators whose captivating works nurture a lifelong love of reading. Panelists: Don Tate is an award-winning author, and the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children. He is also one of the founding hosts of the blog The Brown Bookshelf - a blog designed to push awareness of the myriad of African American voices writing for young readers, with book reviews, author and illustrator intervi...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 6: Debut
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBWith compelling protagonists confronting their worlds head-on, these bold new voices present beloved stories that crackle with razor-sharp observations and thrill with tension. Panelists: DAWNIE WALTON is a writer, editor, and author of the novel The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. She earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (2018) and holds a journalism degree from Florida A&M University (1997). Formerly an editor at Essence and Entertainment Weekly, she has received fellowships in f...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 20: Resonant Verse
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBAs contemporary as they come, these poets explore current landscapes, tangled legacies, and the debts we owe through language that digs deep, holds fast, and can’t soon be forgotten. Panelists: Adam Clay was born and raised in Mississippi. He is the author of four book of poems. His most recent collection, To Make Room for the Sea, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Boston Revi...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 17: Out in Focus
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBScholarly research, poignant memoir, and portraits of life follow the threads of gay culture in the American South, for enlightening takes on celebrated literature, drag clubs, and personal and family experiences. Panelists: Storytelling is the heart and soul of Elizabeth McCain's life. Originally from Mississippi, she is the author of a compelling memoir, A Lesbian Belle Tells OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love, an expansion of her award-winning one-woman play. Elizabet...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 23: UPM 50th Anniversary
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBKey stakeholders delve into the decades-long history of the only non-profit publisher in the state, with a focus on its storied commitment to publishing a wide range of scholarly books that are culturally important not only to the state, but to the world at large. Panelists: Ann J. Abadie is former associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 12: Meet Me in the Middle
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBPanelists: Alda P. Dobbs is the author of the upcoming novel Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna. She was born in a small town in northern Mexico but moved to San Antonio, Texas as a child. Alda studied physics and worked as an engineer before pursuing her love of storytelling. She's as passionate about connecting children to their past, their communities, different cultures and nature as she is about writing. Alda lives with her husband and two children outside Houston, Texas. Carrie is the aut...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 14: Mosquito Supper Club
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBMelissa M. Martin grew up on the Louisiana coast and has lived in New Orleans for 20 years. After graduating from Loyola University in New Orleans, she worked as an adult literacy teacher until she evacuated to Northern California during Hurricane Katrina. While living there, she worked at some of the top Napa Valley vineyards and restaurants, and this is where she honed her self-taught culinary skills to a professional level. Martin returned to New Orleans three years later and opened Satsu...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 25: Young Adult
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MBThree YA authors from Mississippi create memorable young characters who tackle weighty topics--from cult recruitment and teen parenthood to the social struggles of living with Tourette’s--in clever, humorous, and heartfelt ways. Panelists: Angie Thomas was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. A former teen rapper, she holds a BFA in creative writing from Belhaven University. Her award-winning, acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion pi...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 2: A Lively Legacy
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBSpirited stories and storied characters are interwoven in the Southern fabric, as are top-notch authors to flesh out its most entertaining and intriguing threads. Panelists: Jim Crockett is Professor Emeritus of Accountancy at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), and an Adjunct Professor of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi. He earned the BBA and MBA degrees from the University of Mississippi and the DBA from Mississippi State University. Dr. Crockett has served on the ...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 24: Mystery Revealed
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBLost souls and intersecting destinies — steeped in arty New Orleans, gritty Brooklyn and the Kentucky backwoods — drive compelling tales from a trio of acclaimed Oxford writers. Panelists: Chris Offutt is the author of the novels The Killing Hills, Country Dark, and The Good Brother, the short-story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, and three memoirs: The Same River Twice, No Heroes, and My Father, the Pornographer. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 19: Race Against Time
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 65.2 MBLearn more about the dogged pursuit of the killers behind four of the civil rights movement’s most infamous crimes, decades after the fact, and hear firsthand from a family member who felt those losses the keenest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 10: In Conversation with Kai Bird
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBThe Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History sits down with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist who has written a number of acclaimed biographies including his most recent, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist. He is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for American Prometheus: The T...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 13: Memoir
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBPanelists: Allison Moorer is a singer/songwriter, producer, and author who has released ten critically acclaimed albums. Her first memoir, Blood, was released in October 2019 to high praise and received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. She has been nominated for Academy, Grammy, Americana Music Association, and Academy of Country Music Awards. Allison holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School; her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Ame...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 1: When Evil Lived In Laurel
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBDig into the background and contemporary relevance of this compelling book of the murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, and the heroic intrigue that led to justice against the KKK, with the veteran journalist/ author, the FBI informant’s son and wife, and the judge who was county prosecutor at the time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 21: Revision with Kiese Laymon
October 12, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 74.1 MBListen in as the influencer behind the popular "Bookstagram" account @ablackmanreading talks to one of literature's most profound voices about the importance and power of revision. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese Laymon, Ottilie Schillig Professor in English and Creative Writing and the University of Mississippi, is the author of the novel Long Division, the memoir Heavy, and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Host: Jerid P. Woods, also...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3, Chapter 13: Tiffany McDaniel
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBTune in for a fun and sometimes emotional conversation between Hillary Taylor of Lemuria Bookstore, Ellen Daniels and Tiffany McDaniel. They discuss McDaniel's new, sophomore novel, BETTY, familial connections, and changes in the publishing world. Tiffany McDaniel is a novelist, poet, and visual artist born and raised in Ohio. She is the author of The Summer That Melted Everything and BETTY. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3, Chapter 15: Martha Hall Foose and Richard Grant
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBPull up a chair to the fun table as two friends, Richard Grant and Martha Hall Foose, join Ellen Daniels in a conversation about Mississippi, Southern food, and wild dinner parties. Richard Grant is an award-winning author, journalist, and television host. He currently writes for Smithsonian magazine, The New York Times, Al Jazeera America, the Telegraph (UK), and several other publications. He grew up in London, England, and now lives in Jackson, Mississippi. His latest book is Dispatches ...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 3, Chapter 14: Cassandra King Conroy and Mathew Guinn
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBJoin these two Pat Conroy loving, Southern novelists for a podcast on WRITE ON, MISSISSIPPI! as they discuss Cassandra's new memoir, TELL ME A STORY. Cassandra King Conroy is an award-winning author of five novels, a book of nonfiction, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and essays. She has taught creative writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked as a human interest reporter. King’s first novel, Making Waves has been through numerous printings ...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 12: John F. Marszalek III
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBJoin Mississippian John F. Marszalek III and New Orleans transplant, Robert "Bobby" W. Fieseler as they discuss John's new book, COMING OUT OF THE MAGNOLIA CLOSET: SAME SEX COUPLES IN MISSISSIPPI and Queer culture in the South. John F. Marszalek III is a National Certified Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor in Mississippi. He has been a counselor educator for over 20 years and is currently clinical faculty of the online clinical mental health counseling program at Southern New Ha...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 16: Tim Fielder, John Jennings and Donna-lyn Washington
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBJoin three giants in the world of Afrofuturist comics in this compelling conversation between two Mississippi natives, Tim Fielder and John Jennings, along with University Press of MIssissippi contributing writer, Donna-lyn Washington. Tim Fielder is an Illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has a lifelong love of Visual Afrofutuism, Pulp entertainment, and action films. He holds other Afrofuturists such...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 4: Dr. Nancy Bristow
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBDr. Nancy Bristow joins C. Liegh McInnis in conversation about her new book, STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF RACISM Nancy K. Bristow has taught at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, for thirty years, where she is a Distinguished Professor of History, serves on the Leadership Team of the Race and Pedagogy Institute, and helped found the African American Studies Program. An award-winning teacher, she is the author of three books, most recently American Pandemic: Lost Worlds of the 1...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3, Chapter 3: Michael Farris Smith
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBAuthor, Michael Farris Smith, sits down to talk with his buddy, PJ Lee, about his newest award-winning novel, BLACKWOOD. Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of Blackwood, The Fighter, Desperation Road, and Rivers. His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, Southern Living, Book Riot, and numerous others, and have been named Indie Next List, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has been a finalist for the Southern Book Prize,...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 6: Angie Thomas and Nic Stone
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBAuthors Angie Thomas & Nic Stone share a conversation with Tonja Murphy about life, writing & navigating new norms in the midst of a global pandemic. Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still resides in Jackson, Mississippi as indicated by her accent. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine with a picture included. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop. She can also sti...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 5: 75th Anniversary of Richard Wright’s BLACK BOY
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBC. Liegh McInnis, Kiese Laymon, & Charlie Braxton join in conversation to discuss Richard Wright's BLACK BOY on the 75th anniversary of its publication Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi Season 3, Chapter 7: Page to Screen
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBMississippi Film Office Director, Nina Parikh, leads a conversation between author, Michael Farris Smith, and filmmakers, Graham & Parker Phillips to discuss adapting Smith's book, THE FIGHTER, to film. Graham and Parker Phillips are brother writer/directors based out of New York and Los Angeles. Parker studied literature at Bucknell University while Graham studied U.S. History at Princeton where he wrote his thesis on indigenous marginalization and resistance in the United States. Graham...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 8: Natasha Trethewey
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBFormer US Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, talks with award-winning author, Kiese Laymon about her new memoir, MEMORIAL DRIVE. PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LEMURIA BOOKSTORE OF JACKSON, MS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.