Ep. 29: Michael Farris Smith & Steve Iwanski from Turnrow Book Co.

Michael Farris Smith and James figured out pretty early on in the conversation that they were cut from the same cloth. Michael is the author of THE HANDS OF STRANGERS, RIVERS, and his latest novel, DESPERATION ROAD, is out now. He and James discuss following the story, not thinking too hard, realizing something is boring, and how the rise and fall of music can serve as a model for fiction. Then, Steve Iwanski, manager of Turnrow Book Co., talks about his store and recommends books.  

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Michael Farris Smith:

https://michaelfarrissmith.com/

Michael and James discuss: 

THE MAID'S VERSION by Daniel Woodrell

The Southern Festival of the Book

Square Books 

Lemuria Books 

Ann Patchett 

Newtonville Books

Brookline Booksmith 

Porter Square Books

Mississippi Book Festival 

Somerset Review 

CLMP 

Manhattan Public Library 

The Pushcart Prize 

The Center for Writers at Ole Miss 

Publisher's Weekly 

Carolina Wren Press

Hannah Tinti 

One Story 

Frederick Barthelme 

Steven Barthelme 

The New Yorker 

Jason Isbell 

"Fire Away" by Chris Stapleton

Steve Earle 

"Breaker's Roar" by Sturgill Simpson 

"You Want it Darker" by Leonard Cohen

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Turnrow Book Co: http://turnrowbooks.com/

James and Steve Discuss:

COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett

Lady Gaga

Jamie Kornegay 

FURIOUS COOL: RICHARD PRYOR AND THE WORLD THAT MADE HIM by David Henry and Joe Henry

The Alabama Booksmith

Wiley Cash 

William Faulkner 

Eudora Welty 

THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by Richard Flanagan 

The Greenwood Shakespeare Project

DESPERATION ROAD by Michael Farris Smith 

THE STRAYS by Emily Bitto 

THE HISTORY OF WOLVES by Emily Fridlund

THE MIDNIGHT COOL by Lydia Peele 

Ketch Secor

Old Crow Medicine Show 

THE WORLD UNDONE by GJ Meyer 

THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by Douglas Preston 

THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann 

ICE GHOSTS by Paul Watson 

THE WORLD TO COME by Jim Shepard 

LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders 

SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward 

MEN WE REAPED by Jesmyn Ward 

SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward 

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