A random sign for free dogs inspired Mary Miller to drop a manuscript she’d been researching and create the character of Louis McDonald, Jr. for her hilarious and heartbreaking novel, BILOXI. She tells James about feeling indebted to her characters, teaching herself to write, looking in holes with her dog, needing to find joy, and reading with John Grisham. And bologna. And feet licking. Plus a chat with Bennet Johnson from Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI.
Mary Miller
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Mary and James discuss:
Frederick Barthelme
Jerry Seinfeld
THE MOTEL LIFE by Willy Vlautin
THE OFFICE
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt
Books-A-Million
ZOETROPE
ON WRITING by Stephen King
BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott
Elizabeth Ellen
Aaron Burch
Square Books
Lemuria Book Store
Bennet Johnson
Literati Bookstore
Parnassus Books
John Evans
Richard Howorth
Lisa Howorth
Grisham Writers in Residence
John and Renee Grisham
Michener Center for Writers
Ann Patchett
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Claudia Smith Chen
Kevin Sampsell
REM
Elizabeth Spencer
Tom Franklin
Beth Ann Fennelly
W. W. Norton & Company
Charlie Day
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA
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Bennet Johnson
Bennet and James Discuss:
Mike & Hilary Gustafson
SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong
YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS by Kristen Roupenian
OHIO by Stephen Markley
MIDWEST LITERARY WALK
PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee
HAWKING by Jim Ottaviani
“Boys Town” by Jim Shepard
Calvin Trillin
Amy Hempel
Mary Ruefle
Kevin Wilson
Hannah Pittard
Lorrie Moore
Ernest Hemingway
Literati Book Store Presents
John U. Bacon
Randall Munroe
Sister Helen Prejean
Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Safran Foer