When her mother suffers a stroke, Tessa Fontaine joins the traveling circus sideshow. She recounts this unique time in her life in her incredible new memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN. She and James talk about being okay with not knowing what you’re writing about, how first books are like teenagers, and finding the untold story. And, she is the first guest (to James’s knowledge) to flashback to Eagle-Eye Cherry’s “Save Tonight.” Plus, Meg Reid of Hub City Writers Project.
Tessa Fontaine:
Tessa and James discuss:
Annie Hartnett
Harper
University of Alabama
University of Utah
Freytag’s Pyramid
LET’S NO ONE GET HURT by Jon Pineda
“The First Cut is the Deepest” by Sheryl Crow
“Save Tonight” by Eagle-Eye Cherry
Cormac McCarthy
Ernest Hemingway
Jenna Johnson
HELL’S ANGELS by Hunter S. Thompson
Meg Reid: (Hub City)
Meg and James discuss:
WPA
Newtonville Books
Turnrow Book Co.
Square Books
Tessa Fontaine
Betsy Teter
Publisher’s Group West
Dzanc Books
Milkweed Editions
OVER THE PLAIN HOUSES by Julia Franks
FLIGHT PATH by Hannah Palmer
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Sewanee
WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith
Emily L. Smith
Lookout Books
ECOTONE
UNC-Wilmington
NEA
Sarabande Books
Carolina Wren Press
THE HANDS OF STRANGERS by Michael Farris Smith
Lemuria Books
Parnassus Books
Eric Spencer
Kelly Estep
Carmichael’s Books
Bookmarks in Winston-Salem