Ep. 57: Tessa Fontaine & Meg Reid

When her mother suffers a stroke, Tessa Fontaine joins the traveling circus sideshow. She recounts this unique time in her life in her incredible new memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN. She and James talk about being okay with not knowing what you're writing about, how first books are like teenagers, and finding the untold story. And, she is the first guest (to James's knowledge) to flashback to Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight." Plus, Meg Reid of Hub City Writers Project.  

Tessa Fontaine: http://www.tessafontaine.com/home.html

Tessa and James discuss:

Annie Hartnett

Harper 

University of Alabama 

University of Utah 

Freytag's Pyramid 

LET'S NO ONE GET HURT by Jon Pineda 

"The First Cut is the Deepest" by Sheryl Crow 

"Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry 

Cormac McCarthy

Ernest Hemingway 

Jenna Johnson 

HELL'S ANGELS by Hunter S. Thompson 

(Book Design) http://www.megireid.com/

Meg and James discuss: 

WPA 

Newtonville Books 

Turnrow Book Co. 

Square Books 

Tessa Fontaine 

Betsy Teter 

Publisher's Group West 

Dzanc Books

Milkweed Editions 

OVER THE PLAIN HOUSES by Julia Franks 

FLIGHT PATH by Hannah Palmer 

John Jeremiah Sullivan 

Sewanee 

WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith

Emily L. Smith 

Lookout Books 

ECOTONE 

UNC-Wilmington 

NEA 

Sarabande Books 

Carolina Wren Press 

THE HANDS OF STRANGERS by Michael Farris Smith 

Lemuria Books 

Parnassus Books 

Eric Svenson 

Kelly Estep 

Carmichael's Books 

Bookmarks in Winston-Salem  

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