Jesse Donaldson tells James about the Oxycodone scourge, the effect it has had on his home state of Kentucky, and how it informed his debut novel, THE MORE THEY DISAPPEAR. He also recommends writing while gardening, and recalls the time he drove to New York with a tape-playing robot. Plus Lauren Cerand joins the show to discuss book publicity.
Jesse and James Discuss:
FOURTH OF JULY CREEK by Smith Henderson
PHAIDON
ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Kenyon College
Lewis Hyde
P.F. Kluge
Breece D'J Pancake
Denis Johnson
ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Mark Richard
Amy Hempel
Raymond Carver
Graham Greene
Ernest Hemingway
Jorge Luis Borges
Becca Wadlinger
George Saunders
Mary Karr
RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco
Samuel Beckett
ELBOW ROOM by James Alan McPherson
"Trilobites" by Breece D'J Pancake
Raymond Chandler
DREAMLAND by Sam Quinones
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene
Edith Wharton
Daniel Woodrell
FALCONER by John Cheever
Ross Macdonald
KC Constantine
Jamie Gordon
SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan
Michael Parker
