Welcome back to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits flow all year long!
For this official seventh episode, Amanda and Marty enjoy a little Southern Comfort cocktail while discussing Fannie Flagg's novella A Redbird Christmas. Tune in for a little downhome trash talk about Sweet Tea, book clubs, and bad endings.
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RECIPE FOR BAYOU ZINGER:
Ingredients:
Ice
1 1/2 oz. Southern Comfort
1/2 oz. Grand Marnier
2 oz. lemon juice
2 oz. iced sweet tea
Directions:
NOTE: Adjust measurements to your taste. Amanda and Marty cut back on the lemon juice and added a LOT more sweet tea.
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, alsoon Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
"Cardinal"sound clip from:
"Cardinal." Beck, Andy. Alfred Music Choral, 2018.
This month's Christmas lit:
Flagg, Fannie. A Redbird Christmas. Random House, 2004.
