The third in a series of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in the summer of 2018 finds James sitting down with Randall Kenan, who talks about the books that made him feel less alone, the art of writing about food, and the legacy of James Baldwin. Plus, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, editor at Ecotone Magazine.
Randall Kenan
Randall and James discuss:
Margot Livesey
Richard Bausch
Jill McCorkle
Tony Earley
Steve Yarbrough
Wyatt Prunty
Maurice Manning
Zora Neale Hurston
Charles Chestnut
Latin American Boom
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carlos Fuentes
Mario Vargas Llosa
Isabelle Allende
UNC- Chapel Hill
Amos Tutuola
Wole Soyinka
William Faulkner
Bennett Cerf
Donald Klopfer
Christine Schutt
Little Richard
Studs Terkel
V.S. Naipaul
THE LIVING IS EASY by Dorothy West
Jackie Kennedy
THE WEDDING by Dorothy West
Dan O’Brien
C-SPAN’S BOOKNOTES with Brian Lamb
SOUTHERN FOOD by John Egerton
Southern Foodways Alliance
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
Edna Lewis
William Styron
Molly O’Neill
Mark Twain
MFK Fisher
Urban Waite
JAMES BALDWIN: A BIOGRAPHY by David Leeming
THE NATION
THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin
NO NAME IN THE STREET by James Baldwin
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
ANOTHER COUNTRY by James Baldwin
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Anna Lena and James discuss:
David Gessner
UNC- Wilmington
AWP
TIN HOUSE
AMERICAN SCIENTIST
David Schoonmaker Dawn Silvia
Emerson College
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Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS