Ep. 72: SWC 04: Christine Schutt & Emily Nemens

March 5, 2019

In our final episode of our Sewanee Writers’ Conference series recorded in the summer of 2018, James is joined by Christine Schutt, one of our greatest authors, to discuss her career from FLORIDA to her latest, PURE HOLLYWOOD. They cover a lot of books, and a lot of ground, from nerves about reading to insecurity about writing, in an honest and illuminating conversation. Plus, friend and (relatively) new PARIS REVIEW editor Emily Nemens. 

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Christine Schutt: https://www.christineschutt.com/ 

Christine and James discuss: 

Christine’s books: FLORIDA; A DAY, A NIGHT, ANOTHER DAY, SUMMER; NIGHTWORK; ALL SOULS; PROSPEROUS FRIENDS; PURE HOLLYWOOD: AND OTHER STORIES 

Amy Hempel 

Barry Hannah 

Gordon Lish 

Lucy Corin 

UC Davis 

Mary Jo Salter 

John Casey

Cheri Peters 

William Gay 

Wyatt Prunty 

Jill McCorkle 

AWP 

Donald Justice 

Elizabeth Bishop 

BLUETS by Maggie Nelson 

TRIQUARTERLY 

National Book Award 

Kathryn Davis 

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS by Elizabeth Hardwick

TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson

CHILD OF GOD by Cormac McCarthy 

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner 

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 

Diane Williams 

NOON 

Josh Weil 

UC Irvine 

The Nightingale-Bamford School 

Wesleyan University 

Mills College 

Elizabeth Winthrop 

GOSSIP GIRL by Cecily von Ziegesar

Laura van den Berg 

Elisabeth Schmitz  

Margot Livesey 

Alfred Hitchcock

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor 

Alice Munro 

Dan O’Brien 

Maurice Manning 

Clare Beams 

Emily Nemens: https://www.theparisreview.org/

Emily and James Discuss:

THE PARIS REVIEW 

THE SOUTHERN REVIEW 

Diane Williams 

WRITERS AT WORK 

Pulitzer Prize 

WOMEN AT WORK, INTERVIEWS FROM THE PARIS REVIEW 

Francois Mauriac 

Nadine Gordimer 

Hernan Diaz 

Kelli Jo Ford 

Emily Bell 

AWP 

THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE