Jesmyn Ward: Beating the Drum
March 17, 2014
The National Book Award winner on substance abuse in the rural South and being told she’d written “just a Southern book.”
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Daniel Woodrell: Southern Class
October 15, 2013
The acclaimed author on tragedy and poverty in Missouri, America's class divide, and the rejections his novel Winter’s Bone received.
Alexander Maksik: How to Make a Life
July 15, 2013
The acclaimed novelist and short story writer talks about sensual sentences, the controversy surrounding his first novel, and why his “enemy is blasé, detached, ironic art of any kind.”
Lynn Nottage: History of Omission
May 1, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize winner on human rights work and playwriting, telling stories that are "profoundly unheard," and why she thinks a lot of writing about Africa amounts to little more than "pornography."