Write On, Mississippi!

Feb 11 2025 83 ep. 41 mins 3
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Pour 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 7, Chapter 6 : Darden North

Feb 11 2025 31 mins  
Join Dr. Darden North as he sits down with Royal Allis, Executive Director of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, to talk about his career as a medical doctor and author. Darden's latest book Party Favors follows a young orthopedic surgeon on the Mississippi Gulf Coast who, desperate to save his failing practice, turns to selling leftover narcotics and even hooking new patients on opi

Write On, Mississippi: Season 7, Chapter 5: Joseph Earl Thomas

Feb 04 2025 42 mins  
Listen to Joesph Earl Thomas talk with host Matt Sawyer about his award-winning book, God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Joseph Earl Thomas - Joseph Earl Thomas is an American writer and educator known for his memoir "Sink", which was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His work has appeared in publicati

Write On, Mississippi: Season 7, Chapter 4: Julia Phillips

Jan 28 2025 46 mins  
Listen as author Julia Philips becomes fast friends with host Matt Sawyer as they talk about her latest best-selling book, Bear.Julia Philips: Julia Philips is the author of the bestselling novel Bear and Disappearing Earth, a finalist for the National Book Award, and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. A 2024 Guggenheim fel

Write On, Mississippi: Season 7, Chapter 3: Crystal Wilkinson

Jan 21 2025 45 mins  
Join Crystal Wilkinson as she sits with Ebony Lumumba to discuss her national best-selling book, Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks. Crystal Wilkinson: Crystal Wilkinson is an acclaimed American author, poet, and educator known for her poignant and lyrical explorations of identity, family, and rural Black life in App

Write On, Mississippi: Season 7, Chapter 2: Richard Grant

Jan 14 2025 33 mins  
Join Richard Grant as he talks with Matt Sawyer about his book, A Race to the Bottom of Crazy. In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant blends memoir, research, and reporting to explore what makes Arizona both perplexing and undeniably captivating.Richard Grant: Richard Grant is an author, journalist, and television host. He currently writes for the Smithsonian magazine, the New Yor

Write On, Mississippi: Season 7, Chapter 1: Kate Medley

Jan 07 2025 39 mins  
Join Kate Medley as she talks with Matt Sawyer about her coffee-table book of photographs, Thank You Please Come Again. The book has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others. It was named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR and won the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters prize.Kate Medley: Kate Medley is a North Carolina-based vi

Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 5: Patrick deWitt

Sep 13 2023 31 mins  
Join 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

Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 6: Tyriek White

Sep 13 2023 34 mins  
Writer, 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

Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 4: Jamila Minnicks

Sep 13 2023 31 mins  
Winner 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

Write On, Mississippi: Season 6, Chapter 1: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Sep 13 2023 30 mins  
Annette 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 Indi