Ep. 91: SWC 06: Tim O'Brien & Speer Morgan

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

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!

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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 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

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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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