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Before she became a successful novelist, Jill McCorkle was collecting portions of plots, slivers of settings. Her titles blend fiction with bits of reality from the rich catalog of her life.

 

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Works discussed in this episode:

Old Crimes - by Jill McCorkle

Our Town - by Thorton Wilder

Hieroglyphics - by Jill McCorkle

Filling Station - by Elizabeth Bishop

The Telephone Game - by William Trevor

The Caretaker - by Ron Rash

Night Watch - by Jane Anne Phillips

Life After Life - Jill McCorkle

I Am the Light of This World - Michael Parker

The Last Ballad - Wiley Cash