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.     
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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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