In Read Appalachia’s brand new series, Read Appalachia features Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. and Robert Gipe in conversation.

Things Mentioned

• Appalachian Literary Arts Festival

Books Mentioned

• Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
• Tore All to Pieces by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
• Trampoline by Robert Gipe
• Weedeater by Robert Gipe
• Pop by Robert Gipe
• Cipher by Jeremy Jones
• Country Queers by Rae Garringer
• Worth Burning by Mickie Kennedy
• Many-Storied House by George Ella Lyon
• Safety of Small Things by Jane Hicks
• Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
• But for Fortune by Erin Reid
• If Only the Rain Would Come by Natalie Sypolt
• In the Fields of Fatherless Children by Pamela Steele
• Every Bone a Prayer by Noah Ashley Blooms

Guest Info

Willie Carver Jr. | Website | Instagram

Robert Gipe | Website

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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.

Website | Instagram

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Kendra Winchester talks to Silas House, the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

Things Mentioned

• Read Appalachia Newsletter

Books Mentioned

• Dead Man Blues by S.D. House
• All These Ghosts by Silas House
• Lark Ascending by Silas House
• Southernmost by Silas House
• The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
• Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
• A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
• The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
• Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
• A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
• Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
• The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Guest Info

Silas House | Website | Instagram

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