Ep. 71: SWC 03: Randall Kenan & Anna Lena Phillips Bell

TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books Podcast

The third in a series of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in the summer of 2018 finds James sitting down with Randall Kenan, who talks about the books that made him feel less alone, the art of writing about food, and the legacy of James Baldwin. Plus, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, editor at Ecotone Magazine.

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Randall Kenan: https://randallkenan.com/

Randall and James discuss:

Margot Livesey

Richard Bausch

Jill McCorkle

Tony Earley

Steve Yarbrough

Wyatt Prunty

Maurice Manning

Zora Neale Hurston

Charles Chestnut

Latin American Boom

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Carlos Fuentes

Mario Vargas Llosa

Isabelle Allende

UNC- Chapel Hill

Amos Tutuola

Wole Soyinka

William Faulkner

Bennett Cerf

Donald Klopfer

Christine Schutt

Little Richard

Studs Terkel

V.S. Naipaul

THE LIVING IS EASY by Dorothy West

Jackie Kennedy

THE WEDDING by Dorothy West

Dan O'Brien

C-SPAN'S BOOKNOTES with Brian Lamb

SOUTHERN FOOD by John Egerton

Southern Foodways Alliance

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

Edna Lewis

William Styron

Molly O'Neill

Mark Twain

MFK Fisher

Urban Waite

JAMES BALDWIN: A BIOGRAPHY by David Leeming

THE NATION

THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin

NO NAME IN THE STREET by James Baldwin

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

ANOTHER COUNTRY by James Baldwin

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Anna Lena Phillips Bell: https://ecotonemagazine.org/

Anna Lena and James discuss:

David Gessner

UNC- Wilmington

AWP

TIN HOUSE

AMERICAN SCIENTIST

David Schoonmaker

Dawn Silvia

Emerson College

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Music courtesy of Bea Troxel from her album, THE WAY THAT IT FEELS: https://www.beatroxel.com/

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