Our conversation this week is with Tema Stauffer - photographer, Associate Professor of Photography at East Tennesse State University, curator, writer, and child of Kalamazoo, MI (and North Carolina, technically). Her most recent work, Southern Fiction, explores settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers. (welcome back to our trusted friend, Eudora Welty!)
This episode will take you many places. Listen to us talk about: The power of just showing up somewhere. Moments of special feelings. The many paths of Southern Fiction. Finding essay writers & serendipity. Artistical influences. The church with no name. Tema's interest in the history of places. The Welty-Evers connection. Driving around and finding out. CITY 2000 police ride-alongs. Bonding with strangers through photography.
Location: Tema's home in Asheville, NC
Buy a copy of Southern Fiction & Upstate
Visit current exhibition at ETSU's Reece Museum until March 1st
Visit upcoming exhibition at MTSU's Baldwin Photo Gallery March 10th-April 13th
Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore:
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Cecilia Cornejo - Arte la Milpa
Rowan Oak - Home of William Faulkner
Alice Walker & Eatonton, Georgia
Flannery O'Connor & Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville, Georgia
City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC
Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University
Haunted by a Ghost Town: The Lure of Rodney, Mississippi
Fire Engulfs Abandoned North Front Street Building in Hudson
Preserving a Cluster of Fishing Shacks From Hudson's 'Forgotten' Past
Where Is the Voice Coming From? by Eudora Welty
