Ep. 30 | Read Appalachia Turns 4!
It’s Read Appalahia’s fourth birthday! In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Mesha Maren and Taylor Brown.
Books Mentioned
Shae by Mesha Maren
Rednecks by Taylor Brown
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
You Are the Snake by Juliet Escoria
Fight Like Hell: the Untold Story of American Labor by Kim Kelly
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan
Slime Line by Jake Maynard
Guest Info
(c) Grant Miller
Mesha Maren is the author of the novels Sugar Run and Perpetual West (Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Crazyhorse, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Sou’wester, Hobart, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, an Appalachian Writing Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation. She was the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an Associate Professor of the Practice of English at Duke University.
(c) Tristan Bam Argo
Taylow Brown is the recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction, a three-time finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was named the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year. His novels include Fallen Land, The River of Kings, Gods of Howl Mountain, Pride of Eden, and Wingwalkers. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.Y.
