Over the course of eleven books, including his latest novel, THE UNMADE WORLD, Steve Yarbrough has established himself as a master of language and place. But James knows him as the leader of the greatest workshop ever. They discuss that class at Sewanee, as well as being a Southern writer with a British aesthetic, structuring novels based on the football calendar, and getting poked in the stomach. Plus, Annie Hartnett on being more productive.
Steve Yarbrough
Steve and James discuss:
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Jill McCorkle
Johnny Carson
IN THE SHADOW OF 10,000 HILLS by Jennifer Haupt
THE GIRL FROM BLIND RIVER by Gale Massey
Bill Parcells
Jimmy Johnson
University of Arkansas
William Harrison
John Clellon Holmes
James Whitehead
Bill Belichick
Graham Greene
Emerson College
Pamela Painter
Margot Livesey
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry
BOOKMARKED: LARRY McMURTRY’S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Steve Yarbrough (SY)
PRISONERS OF WAR by SY
THE END OF CALIFORNIA by SY
“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
Ron Hansen
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Bill Evans
Raymond Carver
THE DIXIE ASSOCIATION by Donald “Skip” Hayes
Richard Yates
William Trevor
“Wildwood Flower”
“Blowing up on the Spot” by Kevin Wilson (from PLOUGHSHARES, Winter 2003-4)
Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John LeCarre
Alice Munro
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
Gary Fisketjon
Greg Michalson
Fred Ramey
Knopf
THE OXYGEN MAN by SY
The Harvard Book Store
Michael Nye
OBJECTS OF AFFECTION by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Unbridled Books
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Annie Hartnett
Annie and James discuss:
“If You Want to Write a Book, Write Every Day or Quit Now” by Stephen Hunter
“Why the Best Way to Get Creative Is to Make Some Rules” by Aimee Bender
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/writing-every-day-writers-rules-aimee-bender/all#ixzz58vlFL9eU
THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine
Sarah Shute
THE DEFINING DECADE by Meg Jay
ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King
DEEP WORK by Cal Newport
Anne Vogel
Benjamin Percy
THE SOUND OF MUSIC