Arts
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! - 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 - 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 - Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/ - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK /Instagram: tkwithjs / FB: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/