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.
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Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 9: Wayetu Moore
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBWayétu Moore joins Dr. Ebony Lumumba in conversation about her new memoir, THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN Wayétu Moore is the author of the novel She Would Be King, named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly, and BuzzFeed. She is the founder of One Moore Book, a nonprofit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented readers. Her writing can be found in the Paris Review, Guernica, and the Atlantic, among other...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3, Chapter 10: Brittney Morris
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBBrittney Morris is the author of SLAY. She is also the founder and former president of the Boston University Creative Writing Club. She holds a BA in economics. Brittney spends her spare time playing video games, slaying at DDR, and enjoying the Seattle rain from her apartment. She lives with her husband Steven, who would rather enjoy the rain from a campsite in the woods because he hasn’t played enough horror games. You can find her online at AuthorBrittneyMorris.com, on Twitter and Instagra...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 11: Roy DeBerry
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBA native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, Roy is the Executive Director and one of the founders of the Hill Country Project. He was active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, first as a Freedom School student (whose teacher was Hill Country co-founder Aviva Futorian) and then as a general organizer. Roy earned his bachelor's degree in Sociology at Brandeis University in 1970. Continuing his education at Brandeis, he went on to earn a Masters and later a Doctorate in Political Science. H...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3, Chapter 3: Ron Rash
August 14, 2020 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBRon Rash shares a conversation with Ellen Daniels about his newest short story collection, IN THE VALLEY. Presented in partnership with Lemuria Bookstore of Jackson, MS. RON RASH is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them ...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 3, Chapter 2: Uncomfortable
June 26, 2020 20:12 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBIn Episode 2 of “Uncomfortable”, Holly Lange and Dr. Ebony Lumumba discuss more in depth a few books discussed in Episode 1. Some of the titles discussed are Toni Morrison’s PLAYING IN THE DARK, Michelle Alexander’s THE NEW JIM CROW, Ibram X. Kendi’s STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, Angie Thomas’s THE HATE U GIVE, and MORE! Tune in for more of the conversation on books dealing with racism, anti-racism and how we can create a positive change though reading. See acast.com/privacy for privacy an...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 2: Uncomfortable
June 26, 2020 20:12 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBIn Episode 2 of “Uncomfortable”, Holly Lange and Dr. Ebony Lumumba discuss more in depth a few books discussed in Episode 1. Some of the titles discussed are Toni Morrison’s PLAYING IN THE DARK, Michelle Alexander’s THE NEW JIM CROW, Ibram X. Kendi’s STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, Angie Thomas’s THE HATE U GIVE, and MORE! Tune in for more of the conversation on books dealing with racism, anti-racism and how we can create a positive change though reading. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 3, Chapter 1: Uncomfortable
June 19, 2020 14:54 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB“Uncomfortable,” a podcast discussing racism and anti-racism through books, articles and various sources for all ages. Several contemporary authors featured on the reading list discussed in Episode 1 will appear in future conversations. Holly Lange, Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival, visits with Dr. Ebony Lumumba, First Lady of Jackson, Tougaloo College Associate Professor of English, and Festival Board member, about racism, anti-racism and how we can create positive chang...
Write On, Mississippi: Season 3. Chapter 1: Uncomfortable
June 19, 2020 14:54 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB“Uncomfortable,” a podcast discussing racism and anti-racism through books, articles and various sources for all ages. Several contemporary authors featured on the reading list discussed in Episode 1 will appear in future conversations. Holly Lange, Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival, visits with Dr. Ebony Lumumba, First Lady of Jackson, Tougaloo College Associate Professor of English, and Festival Board member, about racism, anti-racism and how we can create positive chang...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 2, Chapter 6: Shaun Hamill
September 30, 2019 11:50 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBA native of Arlington, Texas, Shaun Hamill holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in the dark woods of Alabama with his wife, his in-laws, and his dog. A Cosmology of Monsters is his first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 2, Chapter 5: Richard Ford
September 23, 2019 13:22 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBRichard Ford is the author of the Bascombe novels, which include The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day--the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award--The Lay of the Land, and New York Times bestseller Let Me Be Frank with You. His other works include bestselling novel Canada and the short story collections Rock Springsand A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories and most recently his only work of non-fiction, Between Them: Remem...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 2, Chapter 4: Chanelle Benz
September 16, 2019 21:16 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBChanelle Benz has published short stories in Guernica, Granta.com, Electric Literature, The American Reader, Fence, and The Cupboard, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collection The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead was published in 2017 by Ecco. It was named a Best Book of 2017 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of Electric Literature’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. She currently ...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 2, Chapter 3: Mesha Maren
September 09, 2019 13:38 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBMesha Maren is the author of the novel Sugar Run (Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Crazyhorse, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Sou’wester, Hobart, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, an Appalachian Writing Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University, and fellowships from the ...
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 2, Chapter 2: Juliet Grames
September 02, 2019 21:07 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBJuliet Grames is SVP and Associate Publisher at Soho Press, where she also curates the Soho Crime imprint of critically acclaimed international and multicultural crime fiction. She has been a book editor for fourteen years, the last nine of which have been at Soho. She is also the author of the novel The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi SEASON 2, Chapter 1: Glory Edim
August 26, 2019 21:05 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBGlory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a Brooklyn-based book club and online community that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. In fall 2017, she organized the first-ever Well-Read Black Girl Literary Festival. She has worked as a creative strategist for over ten years at startups and cultural institutions, including Kickstarter, The Webby Awards and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received the 2017 Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times B...
Write On, Mississippi Chapter 15: Lisa Howorth
August 12, 2019 18:04 - 28 minutes - 26 MBLisa Howorth was born and grew up in Washington, D.C., where her new novel is set in 1959. She is the author of the 2014 novel, FLYING SHOES, and she has written for the Oxford American and Garden & Gun. Howorth taught art history at the University of Mississippi, receiving the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996, and a MacDowell Fellowship in 2007. In Oxford in 1979, she and her husband founded Square Books, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in September, 2019. Host...
Write On, Mississippi Chapter 14: Mary Miller
July 18, 2019 16:49 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBMary Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World and Always Happy Hour, as well as the novels The Last Days of California and Biloxi. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, the Oxford American, New Stories from the South, Norton's Seagull Book of Stories, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, and many others. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John and Renée Grisham Write...
Write On, Mississippi Chapter 13: Mamta Chaudhry
June 28, 2019 19:05 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBMamta Chaudhry's fiction, poetry, and feature articles have been published in the Miami Review, The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Writer's Digest, and The Rotarian, among others. She lives with her husband in Coral Gables, Florida, and they spend part of each year in India and France. Haunting Paris is her first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi Chapter 12: S. J. Rozan
June 24, 2019 21:13 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBS. J. Rozan, a native New Yorker, is the author of sixteen novels and six dozen short stories. Her work has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story. She’s also the recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon and the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 11: Julia Phillips
June 03, 2019 17:43 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBJulia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth, is a Fulbright fellow whose writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Moscow Times. She lives in Brooklyn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 10: Casey Cep
May 13, 2019 20:37 - 32 minutes - 11.3 MBCasey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among many other publications. Her first book, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, will be published by Knopf in May of 2019. A proud graduate of the Talbot County Public Schools, she has an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Hosted on Acast. See ...
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 9: Helen Ellis
April 30, 2019 14:54 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBSouthern ladies have a code: If you don’t have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way. Join author Helen Ellis, a New Yorker who clings to her Alabama accent like mayonnaise to white bread, as she tells you the unvarnished truth about what you think Southern ladies mean and what they really mean when they say things like, “Bless your heart,” and “He ain’t right,” and “You don’t need to get me anything!” Subscribe and take an unforgettable journey into the inner sanctu...
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 8: Ron Nixon
March 05, 2019 20:13 - 30 minutes - 25.4 MBRon Nixon of Lauderdale, Mississippi, is The New York Times’s homeland security correspondent. He is based in the Washington bureau, where he covers border and aviation security, immigration, cybercrime and cyber security, transnational crime, and violent extremism. Mr. Nixon is the author of “Selling Apartheid: Apartheid South Africa’s Global Propaganda War” (Jacana Media, June 2015). He serves as the visiting associate for Journalism and Media Studies at The University of the Witwatersran...
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 7: Marshall Ramsey
March 05, 2019 20:09 - 28 minutes - 22.4 MBMarshall Ramsey is a two-time Pulitzer Finalist (2002 and 2006). His editorial cartoons are nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate and have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today and The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger. He is the author several successful books including three cartoon collections, two short story collections (Fried Chicken and Wine and Chainsaws and Casseroles) and the delightful children’s book Banjo’s Dream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 6: Kiese Laymon
March 05, 2019 20:07 - 29 minutes - 25 MBKiese Laymon is an American writer, editor and a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. Laymon is the author of three full-length books: a novel, Long Division, and two memoirs, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Heavy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 5: Jesmyn Ward
March 05, 2019 20:05 - 32 minutes - 23.2 MBJesmyn Ward is an American novelist and an associate professor of English at Tulane University. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel, Salvage the Bones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 4: Robert St. John & Wyatt Waters
March 05, 2019 20:04 - 27 minutes - 25 MBRobert St. John is the author of ten books, including three previous collaborations with watercolorist Wyatt Waters. His 11th book, A Mississippi Palate, another collaboration with Waters was released November 1st. Their book, An Italian Palate, was written in Europe while St. John, his wife, and his two children traveled through 17 countries on two continents for six months. He and Waters lead group tours to Italy twice a year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 3: Salman Rushdie
March 05, 2019 19:35 - 25 minutes - 18.7 MBSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Easte...
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 2: Jon Meacham & Julia Reed
March 05, 2019 19:33 - 34 minutes - 26.1 MBJon Meacham is a renowned presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, contributing editor at TIME, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Julia Reed is a contributing editor at Vogue and Newsweek, where she writes the magazine's Food and Drink column. She is author of Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena and The House on First Street, My New Orleans Story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write On, Mississippi! Chapter 1: Angie Thomas
March 04, 2019 22:06 - 24 minutes - 18 MBAngie Thomas is an American author who was born, raised and continues to live in Jackson, Mississippi. She wrote the young adult novel The Hate U Give and is set to release her second novel, On the Come Up in 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.