Ep. 11: Mark Powell

Mark Powell pulls double duty to talk about both writing (as the author of four novels, most recently, THE SHELTERING) and MFA programs (he helped start the program at Stetson University). They chat about Mark's circuitous route to writing from his childhood in South Carolina to his time in divinity school to his slow realization that he needed to write about his own life.   

Mark and James discuss:

The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Sports Illustrated

LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry 

John Grisham  

Eudora Welty 

Flannery O'Connor 

William Faulkner 

Cormac McCarthy 

The New Yorker 

NPR 

The Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 

James Dickey 

Janette Turner Hospital 

Ron Rash 

Les Murray 

Seamus Heaney 

William Butler Yeats 

THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE by Pat Conroy 

Story River Books 

Carson McCullers 

William Gay 

Don DeLillo 

RESUSCITATION OF A HANGED MAN by Denis Johnson 

Noam Chomsky 

PLAYERS by Don DeLillo 

Howard Zinn 

"Beverly Home" by Denis Johnson 

Chantel Acevedo

Patricia Engel 

Edwidge Danticat 

Francisco Goldman 

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