We're kicking off 2023 with the wonderful Ellen Rodgers Daniels - Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival, Lemurian elder, photographer, and child of Rolling Fork.
This episode is full of good stuff. The magic of books. Ellen's serendipitous path to leading the MS Book Fest. The realness of John Evans and Lemuria. Meeting your heroes as a job. Loving on libraries. Children's authors doing the absolute most. Vibes and civil discourse.
Mississippi most definitely has somethin' goin' on.
Location: Ellen's mystical black home library. Jackson, Mississippi.
Mississippi Book Festival - August 19, 2023
Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore:
On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic by Jesmyn Ward
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter's by John Steptoe
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Cane by Jean Toomer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Deacon King Kong & The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Where the Roots Reach for Water by Jeffery Smith
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Reverend H.D. Dennis and Margaret's Grocery
Jackson Libraries in Disrepair
Long Overdue, the Bookmobile Is Back
