With the long road of a novel ahead of her, Julia Phillips mined her obsessions, and based her debut, DISAPPEARING EARTH, on her love of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula and her desire to portray the effects of violent acts on women. She and James talk about the cost of being horrified, the surprising realization that not everyone loves Soviet architecture, the book that unlocked her book, and the need to keep readers from chopping the vegetables. Then James talks to Jon Sealy about his new press, Haywire Books.
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Julia Phillips: http://www.juliaphillipswrites.com/
Buy DISAPPEARING EARTH: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525520412
Julia and James discuss:
JONESTOWN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PEOPLES TEMPLE
Kamchatka Peninsula
THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN
Fulbright Fellowship
Yaddo
Emerson College
PT Anderson
THE ANATOMY OF STORY by John Truby
GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
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Jon Sealy: http://www.jonsealy.com/
Haywire Books: https://www.haywirebooks.com/
Jon and James discuss:
THE WHISKEY BARON by Jon Sealy
Hub City press
THE UNMADE WORLD by Steve Yarbrough
Unbridled Books
George Singleton
LSU Press
The Southern Voices Festival
Mark Powell
Baker & Taylor
Ingram
Consortium
Publishers Group West
Itasca
THE EDGE OF AMERICA by Jon Sealy
HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE by Patricia Henley
FIREBIRD by Mark Powell
Heather Bell Adams
WVU Press