In our fourth and final episode recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in the summer of 2021, Elena Passarello (Animals Strike Curious Poses) tells James about sleeping in Elvis's teenage bedroom, getting advice from long-haul truckers, and having screams sent to her. Plus the legendary Mary Flinn of Blackbird. Apply to the Sewanee Writers' Conference by March 15! Buy Elena's books! Check out Blackbird! Check out Bea Troxel's music! Produced/ Mixed by Ryan Shea. Subscribe! Rate! Enjoy! Instagram: tkwithjs Twitter: @JamesScottTK tk with js at g mail dot com
Mar 14, 2022
1 hr 37 min
Only the great Carl Phillips could warrant an episode all to himself. Recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2021, James and Carl discuss assembling a collection, enjoying feeling lost, letting go of the argument, and putting a wedge between yourself and the unbearable. Sewanee Writers' Conference 2022 Applications due March 15! Buy Carl's books at indie bookstores. Music courtesy of Bea Troxel. Produced/ Mixed by Ryan Shea. Insta: tkwithjs / Tw: @JamesScottTK / https://tkpod.com
Mar 13, 2022
1 hr 3 min
The third summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2021) continues with M.O. Walsh (The Big Door Prize), who gives a writing tip James has used ever since, then chats about writing a novel you like, being under the influence of John Prine, and writing one of the greatest cocktail scenes ever. Plus, independent editor and member of the collective 5E Editors, Liz Van Hoose. Sewanee Writers' Conference 2022 Applications due March 15! Buy M.O. Walsh's books. Work with Liz Van Hoose or 5E Editors. Music courtesy of Bea Troxel. Produced/ Mixed by Ryan Shea. Insta: tkwithjs / Tw: @JamesScottTK / https://tkpod.com
Mar 7, 2022
1 hr 31 min
The third summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2021) opens with the brilliance of Katie Kitamura (Intimacies, A Separation), who talks to James about pushing back on expectations, writing things you don't think you can, having your best reader in your own house, and the ghosts of edits past. Plus, the also brilliant author (The Office of Historical Corrections) and The Sewanee Review Editor-at-Large Danielle Evans. Sewanee Writers' Conference 2022 Applications due March 15! Subscribe to The Sewanee Review. Buy Katie and Danielle's books from independent booksellers. Music courtesy of Bea Troxel. Produced/ Mixed by Ryan Shea. Insta: tkwithjs / Tw: @JamesScottTK / https://tkpod.com
Feb 28, 2022
1 hr 31 min
The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference continues with playwright Rachel Bonds, who tells James about finding her voice in a one-act, using jealousy as a job coach, being on the writing treadmill, and recognizing the struggles of those close to us. Plus, actor and Performing Prose co-founder Sean McIntyre. http://www.sewaneewriters.org/ 2020 Applications due March 15! - Rachel Bonds Rachel and James discuss: Olivier Sultan (agent) St. Andrew's-Sewanee School Lisa D'Amour Barack Obama James Agee George Saunders Jennifer Egan Kevin Wilson - Sean McIntyre: https://www.performingprose.com/ Sean and James discuss: THE SOPRANOS Drew Barrymore Middlebury College Steve Yarbrough Jim Shepard ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare THE SIMPSONS LES MISERABLES music by Claude-Monet Schonberg "Master of the House" Emily Nemens Tim O'Brien SEINFELD BREAKING BAD THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA by Edward Albee Dan O'Brien Marilyn Nelson SLINGS AND ARROWS Keanu Reeves The Stratford Festival Performing Prose Emily Shain Anne Ray Sewanee Writers' Conference - Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/ - http://tkpod.com / [email protected] / Twitter: @JamesScottTK /Instagram: tkwithjs / FB: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Mar 10, 2020
1 hr 36 min
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. http://www.sewaneewriters.org/ 2020 Applications due March 15! - Tim O'Brien Buy Tim's books: Buy Tim O'Brien's Books From Independent Booksellers 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 - Speer Morgan: https://www.missourireview.com/ 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: https://www.beatroxel.com/ - http://tkpod.com / [email protected] / Twitter: @JamesScottTK /Instagram: tkwithjs / FB: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Feb 25, 2020
1 hr 46 min
The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference begins with James speaking with Marilyn Nelson, who has written poetry in many forms and for many audiences. Marilyn tells James about her fears of being pigeonholed as well as her love of musicality, embodying voices, and finding a way forward. Plus, Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers. - Marilyn Nelson: https://marilyn-nelson.com/ Buy Marilyn's books: Shop your local indie bookstore for Marilyn Nelson Marilyn and James discuss: Andrea Davis Pinkney Igor Stravinsky Maurice Manning Wyatt Prunty Childcraft Books Sara Teasdale Gwendolyn Brooks Linda Ronstadt "Songs for My Father" Norton's Anthology of Children's Literature Stephen Roxburgh Front Street Publishing Augusta Savage - Michael Wiegers: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/authors/michael-wiegers/ Copper Canyon Press: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/ Michael and James discuss: The New York Times Goodreads Amazon Michiko Kakutani Ocean Vuong RAILSPLITTER by Maurice Manning Melissa Stein Coffee House Press W.S. Merwin Robert Graves Alan Brilliant Unicorn Press - Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/ - http://tkpod.com / [email protected] / Twitter: @JamesScottTK /Instagram: tkwithjs / FB: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Feb 11, 2020
1 hr 34 min
Kevin Wilson's fifth book, the novel NOTHING TO SEE HERE, is a perfect combination of everything that made his previous work so singular: the humor and edge of THE FAMILY FANG, the intensity of his short fiction, and the heart and earnestness of PERFECT LITTLE WORLD. He and James talk depicting basketball, writing being fun and versatile, keeping it short, and lacking a radar for weirdness. Plus, Ecco executive editor Zachary Wagman. - Kevin Wilson: https://www.wilsonkevin.com/ Buy NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Buy NOTHING TO SEE HERE Kevin's work mentioned: "Blowing up on the Spot", PERFECT LITTLE WORLD, TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE FAMILY FANG, Buzzfeed essay: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevinwilson/i-cant-save-my-son-from-the-anxiety-ive-passed-on-to-him. Kevin and James discuss: PLOUGHSHARES Laura van den Berg Lee Boudreaux Harry Potter The Southern Voices Festival "A to B" from A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan Caki Wilkinson Latina Davis Kim Woodley Grundy County Franklin County Kansas State University of Florida Patrick Ewing Hakeem Olajuwon Kevin McHale THE DART LEAGUE KING by Keith Lee Morris "Boys Town" by Jim Shepard Harvard University THE NEW YORKER Calvin Trillin WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by Shirley Jackson A MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by Carson McCullers MRS. CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls GOODBYE, VITAMIN by Rachel Khong TREASURE ISLAND!!! by Sara Levine BAD MARIE by Marcy Dermansky THE LONGSHOT by Katie Kitamura TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson Christine Schutt Steven Millhauser Larry Bird Johnny Storm, "The Human Torch" Julie Barer Ecco Greensboro Review Nicole Kidman Keith Urban Christopher Walken Ryan Call - Zachary Wagman: @zackwagman Zack and James discuss: THE FAMILY FANG BABY, YOU'RE GONNA BE MINE PERFECT LITTLE WORLD Saturday Night Live ALA The Lead Read The Today Show Vintage Crown Dennis Lehane Dan Halpern Hogarth Knopf New England Patriots Gillian Flynn Pulitzer Prize Nobel Prize YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha COLD STORAGE by David Koepp - http://tkpod.com / [email protected] / Twitter: @JamesScottTK/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/ Instagram: tkwithjs
Dec 28, 2019
1 hr 53 min
Calvin Hennick jokingly calls his memoir, ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO, "every thought I've ever had," and the book touches on fatherhood, manhood, race, family, alcohol, baseball, and countless other topics, all considered on a road trip to his childhood hometown with his young son. He talks to James about having the memoir roundly rejected until it won the Pushcart Press Editor's Award, walking around naked in front of the reader, and not solving all of the world's problems. Plus, the legendary Bill Henderson of Pushcart Press. - Calvin Hennick: https://twitter.com/calvinhennick?lang=en Buy ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO: Buy ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO Calvin and James discuss: The Chunky Monkeys THE BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE Grub Street Boston Red Sox Adam Jones Baltimore Orioles Curt Schilling Fenway Park GET OUT dir by Jordan Peele Cooperstown, NY Baseball Hall of Fame PLEASANTVILLE dir by Gary Ross Jackie Robinson Millicent Bennett Grand Central Publishing Pushcart Editor's Prize Bill Henderson APOCALYPSE NOW dir by Francis Ford Coppola BUSINESS INSIDER Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Chip Cheek Whitney Scharer Jenn DeLeon THE BODY PAPERS by Grace Talusan Franz Kafka James Joyce - Bill Henderson: http://pushcartprize.com/ Buy THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY: Buy the PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY Bill and James discuss: THE KID THAT COULD THE PUBLISH IT YOURSELF HANDBOOK by Bill Henderson The Pushcart Prize Anais Nin Buckminster Fuller Ralph Ellison Joyce Carol Oates Doubleday THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Mattel Toys Random House WW Norton & Co. ESQUIRE Central Park ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO by Calvin Hennick Little, Brown Millicent Bennett POETS & WRITERS Cooperstown Fenway Park Boston Red Sox WASHINGTON POST YOU ARE NOT A GADGET by Jaron Lanier GARDEN STATE by Rick Moody THE TALE OF THE RING: A KADDISH: A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF THE HOLOCAUST by Frank Stiffel A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER: THE GREAT HAMPTONS HURRICANE OF 1938 by Genie Chipps Henderson - http://tkpod.com / [email protected] / Twitter: @JamesScottTK/ Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Dec 10, 2019
1 hr 33 min
Two incredible authors discuss their debuts. First, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne tells James about her Tennessee-set HOLDING ON TO NOTHING (Blair), reading while driving (?), Dolly Parton, time machines, and two beer guitars. Then Amy Kurzweil on her depiction of three generations, including her grandmother surviving the Holocaust, in FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR (Black Balloon Books). They go over the deceptive naïveté of comics, how she learned to depict her story, and the inside dirt on NEW YORKER cartoons. - Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: http://ecshelburne.com/ Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING Elizabeth and James discuss: Blair Publishing Amherst College James Patterson TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY Mark Barr The Novel Incubator at Grub Street Lisa Borders Michelle Hoover FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen "Little Sparrow" by Dolly Parton "Down in the Valley" by The Head and the Heart Grand Ole Opry TRAMPOLINE by Robert Gipe ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare William Gay George Singleton - Amy Kurzweil: http://amykurzweil.com/ Buy FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR: Buy FLYING COUCH Amy and James discuss: BART SIMPSON'S GUIDE TO LIFE: A WEE HANDBOOK FOR THE PERPLEXED by Matt Groening CALVIN AND HOBBES by Bill Watterson MAUS by Art Spiegelman FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC by Alison Bechdel PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at University of Michigan "What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember." - Marcus Lee Hansen THE NEW YORKER MOBY DICK by Nathaniel Hawthorne Marcel Proust Bob Mankoff - http://tkpod.com / [email protected] / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Oct 22, 2019
1 hr 53 min
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