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Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

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Sep 21, 2026

Rebecca SchinskyHOST
35:24
We don't talk about it anymore.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
35:25
"Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward, that's a good one.
Jeff O'NealHOST
35:28
There you go.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
35:29
That's still in the mix.
Jeff O'NealHOST
36:03
It's tough.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
36:04
Uh, "The Underground Railroad" in 2016, obviously we co-signed that.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
36:07
"Sing, Unburied, Sing," Jesmyn Ward in 2017.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
36:11
That's a great pick, but "Pachinko" was also a finalist that year.
TrevorHOST
6:30
Yeah
Del SandeenGUEST
6:31
... um, Flannery O'Connor, um, just down to, like, the, the more modern writers like Eden Royce, um, Jesmyn Ward-
TrevorHOST
6:39
Oh, gosh, yeah
Del SandeenGUEST
6:39
... you know? Michael McDowell.
Joseph DanceHOST
25:38
Yeah.
Joseph DanceHOST
25:38
I've got Jesmyn Ward and Dennis Johnson on Wrecked Places, I'm calling it.
Joseph DanceHOST
25:43
Nice.
Joseph DanceHOST
25:44
So Mississippi, obviously, the American West, talking about the impact of addiction, the impact of like, you know, the weird weather patterns they have out in these places, grace, salvation, all of that kind of stuff.
ShelbeyHOST
8:37
And.
ShelbeyHOST
8:39
I think it's even more troubling because when I think of Latoya Watkins, I can't help but think of Toni Morrison, right? I can't help but think of Jesmyn Ward.
ShelbeyHOST
8:51
And these very, like, I'm getting chills saying that, very heavy hitter stories that they're telling that are changing, right? And it sucks because I don't want her to be like Zora Neale Hurston that doesn't get her flowers until she's gone.
ShelbeyHOST
9:07
Yeah.

21 MINS LATER

ShelbeyHOST
29:42
The...
ShelbeyHOST
29:44
It's called The Hanged Man by Catherine Connor.
ShelbeyHOST
29:47
And it's set for fans of Jesmyn Ward, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor.
ShelbeyHOST
29:53
Against the surreal landscape of the Deep South, three Lebanese-American sisters encounter their missing mother six years after she vanished from their lives.
Theodore MartinGUEST
25:19
or literary fiction that takes up questions of crime.
Theodore MartinGUEST
25:22
So I also write about books by Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison and Don DeLillo, more contemporary writers like Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn Ward.
Theodore MartinGUEST
25:31
And then the kind of third angle or subcategory here is what sometimes gets called literary genre fiction or elevated genre fiction.
Theodore MartinGUEST
25:40
So kind of genre writers who have gotten one foot on the more literary prestige side of things.

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