00:00:00Intro
00:06:17Gifts for Meredith, stories of Meredith’s mother, and reading from her next book
00:39:39Meredith’s Books on the Bed
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This week we visit with Meredith McCarroll in Portland, Maine.
Meredith McCarroll was born and raised in Waynesville, North Carolina. She is the author of “Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film” (2018) and co-editor of “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” (2019). She graduated from Appalachian State University, and later earned a Masters from Simmons College and a PhD from University of Tennessee. She lives now in Portland, Maine where she writes and teaches writing.
For more on Meredith: meredithmccarroll.com
Meredith's Books on the Bed:
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Sleepovers: Stories by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Cane by Jean Toomer
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Matt’s Gifts for Meredith:
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
Cinema Ann Arbor by Frank Uhle
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