In this season premiere of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips about her new memoir Small Town Girls.

Things Mentioned

• Appalachian Literary Arts Festival

Books Mentioned

• Small Town Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
• The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
• A Death in the Family by James Agee
• They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake by Breece d'j Pancake

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York.

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