The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference continues with Tim O’Brien, who tells James about winning the National Book Award, writing THE THINGS THEY CARRIED while on a break from another book, not leaving a sentence until it’s finished, being a father, knowing death, and recognizing the maybeness of it all. Plus, Missouri Review editor Speer Morgan.
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Tim O’Brien
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Tim and James discuss:
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Dan O’Brien
Christine Schutt
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER by John Cheever
Lizzie Borden
Jack the Ripper
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
THE BIBLE
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR by Herman Melville
Wyatt Prunty
Emily Nemens
Ernest Hemingway
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Speer and James discuss:
Middlebury College
The New England Review
Greg Michaelson
Jack Kerouac
Mark Twain
Tennessee Williams
Christine Schutt
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Kris Somerville’s Curio Cabinet
Mike McClaskey
Dan O’Brien
“Fields of Empire” by Joan Silber
Daniel Woodrell
Susan Vreeland
Joanna Scott
Raymond Carver
Robert Olen Butler
Naguib Mahfouz
Gregory Rabassa
Philip K. Dick
Ursula Le Guin
Russell Banks
PBS
Henry Green
Robert Bly
Stephen Dunn
TR Hummer
Dave Smith
Annie Proulx
Edmund White
Ernest Gaines
Larry Brown
John Updike
Margaret Walker
Peter Matthiessen
Richard Ford
“Awakening to Jake” by Jillian Weiss
Henry James
Edith Wharton
CHERNOBYL
“Snow” by Kermit Frazier
A FAITHFUL BUT MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL BARBARITIES LATELY COMMITTED by Jason Brown
“Those Deep Elm Brown’s Ferry Blues” by William Gay
Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS
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