Ep. 53: Steve Yarbrough & Annie Hartnett

Over the course of eleven books, including his latest novel, THE UNMADE WORLD, Steve Yarbrough has established himself as a master of language and place. But James knows him as the leader of the greatest workshop ever. They discuss that class at Sewanee, as well as being a Southern writer with a British aesthetic, structuring novels based on the football calendar, and getting poked in the stomach. Plus, Annie Hartnett on being more productive. 

Steve Yarbrough: https://www.steveyarbrough.net/

Steve and James discuss:

Sewanee Writers' Conference 

Jill McCorkle 

Johnny Carson 

IN THE SHADOW OF 10,000 HILLS by Jennifer Haupt 

THE GIRL FROM BLIND RIVER by Gale Massey 

Bill Parcells 

Jimmy Johnson 

University of Arkansas 

William Harrison 

John Clellon Holmes 

James Whitehead 

Bill Belichick 

Graham Greene 

Emerson College

Pamela Painter 

Margot Livesey 

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry

BOOKMARKED: LARRY McMURTRY'S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Steve Yarbrough (SY) 

PRISONERS OF WAR by SY 

THE END OF CALIFORNIA by SY 

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway 

Ron Hansen 

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 

Bill Evans 

Raymond Carver 

THE DIXIE ASSOCIATION by Donald "Skip" Hayes 

Richard Yates 

William Trevor 

"Wildwood Flower"

"Blowing up on the Spot" by Kevin Wilson (from PLOUGHSHARES, Winter 2003-4) 

Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" 

THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John LeCarre  

Alice Munro 

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy 

Gary Fisketjon 

Greg Michalson

Fred Ramey 

Knopf 

THE OXYGEN MAN by SY 

The Harvard Book Store 

Michael Nye 

OBJECTS OF AFFECTION by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough

Unbridled Books 

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Annie Hartnett: http://www.anniehartnett.com/

Annie and James discuss:

"If You Want to Write a Book, Write Every Day or Quit Now" by Stephen Hunter  

"Why the Best Way to Get Creative Is to Make Some Rules" by Aimee Bender

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/writing-every-day-writers-rules-aimee-bender/all#ixzz58vlFL9eU

THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine 

Sarah Shute 

THE DEFINING DECADE by Meg Jay 

ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King 

DEEP WORK by Cal Newport 

Anne Vogel 

Benjamin Percy 

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

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