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RootedWhat Writing Taught Beth Ann Fennelly About Revising Her Own Life StoriesI’ve long admired writer Beth Ann Fennelly—a fellow Mississippi transplant and memoirist. Not only did I devour her last book (and first collection of micro-memoirs), Heating & Cooling, but I later went back to her 2006 epistolary memoir Great with Child, which was a balm during my COVID-era pregnancy. Mississippi’s former poet laureate needs no introduction—which is fitting considering how I completely failed to introduce her at the start of our conversation! Beth Ann Fennelly’s forthcoming book, The Irish Goodbye, is a powerful follow-up to Heating and Cooling, and as Beth Ann shared in our conver...
2026-02-0338 min
RootedWhy Don't We Claim Catherine Lacey As a Mississippi Writer?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comI kicked off the first Bottom Reader Book Club of 2026 with friends! Rather than our usual author chat, I talked with Leslie Barker, a director and playwright, and Talamieka Brice, a visual artist and filmmaker, about the 2023 novel Biography of X by Tupelo native Catherine Lacey. It felt appropriate to talk with artist friends about this fictional biography of a “deified” multi-hyphenate artist. We talked about Lacey’s world building, in which she envisions an alternate history of the United States, and mu...
2026-01-3005 min
RootedAddie E. Citchens Wrote a Novel That Moves with a Teenager's Sense of UrgencyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comOur Bottom Reader Book Club Discussion with Addie Citchens was so good it included a spontaneous bursting into song! I loved chatting with Addie and Talamieka about Dominion, a fast-paced, thrilling drama set in a fictional Delta town that is closely modeled on Clarksdale, MS. Talamieka and I both found the book totally immersive despite having completely different entry points and perspectives to draw from. During our conversation, we talked about power dynamics in small towns, why it took so long...
2026-01-0309 min
RootedRobert Busby Writes Characters Who Make the Worst Choices for the Best Possible ReasonsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comLast week, Talamieka Brice and I had a fabulous book club chat with Addie Citchens about her novel Dominion. BUT before I send that out, I must share this delightful conversation that Shira Muroff and I had with author Robert Busby waaaayy back in October about Robert’s debut story collection Bodock. Robert talked about his job as a satellite TV technician and the story it inspired, growing up in Pontotoc, Mississippi, and fictionalizing traumatic rites of passage. I’ll share some...
2025-12-1610 min
RootedChronicles from Parchman #16: How Many Exonerees Does It Take to Make Mississippi See?This is the latest installment in the Chronicles from Parchman series, a monthly column by writer L. Patri, who has been fighting his wrongful conviction on Parchman’s death row for over thirty years. Listen to the voiceover if you want to hear Mr. Patri read this essay.Demand for a moratorium is not a call to coddle criminals. It is a demand for accountability and integrity. It is a demand that we investigate how and why multiple innocent people have been sentenced to die. It is a demand that we hold law enforcement, prosecutors, and expert wi...
2025-10-3107 min
RootedChronicles from Parchman #15: Moving DayThis is the latest installment in the Chronicles from Parchman series, a monthly column by writer L. Patri, who has been fighting his wrongful conviction on Parchman’s death row for over thirty years. Listen to the voiceover if you want to hear Mr. Patri read this essay.About time, if you want to know my opinion. For three months, starting on November 1, 2023, I had been living in solitary confinement on Mississippi’s death row for an RVR (Rule Violation Report) about having a contraband cell phone. For the past two weeks, the prison administration had been stal...
2025-09-2609 min
RootedPreston Lauterbach is Giving the Gold and the Glory to the Artists who Created Rock and RollThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comThank you to everyone who tuned into my Bottom Reader Book Club conversation with Talamieka Brice and Preston Lauterbach earlier this month. Talamieka is an award-winning Mississippi artist and filmmaker who grew up on the blues—she was the perfect conversation partner for our talk with author Preston Lauterbach about his latest book, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King. The book is a deep dive into the lives and legacies of the Black musicians (many of whom ha...
2025-09-1905 min
RootedChronicles from Parchman #14: WaitingThis is the latest installment in the Chronicles from Parchman series, a monthly column by writer L. Patri, who has been fighting his wrongful conviction on Parchman’s death row for over thirty years. Listen to the voiceover if you want to hear Mr. Patri read this essay.I am finding this to be the hardest story that I have written. So far, it has taken me more than six tries because each time I try, I find myself not being objective. I don’t want to be accusatory and place blame on anyone undeserving; I truly beli...
2025-08-2910 min
RootedMartha Park's Idea of Faith is Rooted in the PresentThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comThank you to everyone who tuned into my Bottom Reader Book Club conversation with Martha Park on Wednesday. I appreciated your thoughtful questions and comments. Martha is a writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee, and the author of the recently released World Without End: Essays on the Apocalypse and After, a collection of essays that deal with climate crisis, faith and doubt, motherhood, and more. I decided to share some highlights from the conversation below. Please let me know if you’ve...
2025-08-0805 min
RootedLauren Rhoades is Letting Go of Unrealistic Expectations of HomeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comLast month I had the pleasure of joining the Bottom Reader Book Club for the first time as the author guest, rather than facilitator. It was thrilling to be on the other side of the proverbial table, knowing that I’d be in good hands with my perceptive friend and fellow 2025 debut author Catherine Simone Gray as facilitator and our cohort of gracious and insightful readers tuning in with their insights and questions. There’s a reason why multiple authors have said...
2025-07-1406 min
RootedSarah LaBrie Wrote Her Memoir "to Feel Like a River Breaking Off Into Tributaries"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comI’ve been sitting too long on this wonderfully rich conversation that our Bottom Reader Book Club had in May with memoirist and TV writer Sarah LaBrie about her debut memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart—I’m so glad to finally share the recording with paid subscribers. No One Gets to Fall Apart grapples with the toll that a mother’s mental illness takes on her daughter, its effects rippling outward to the family as a whole. The book...
2025-07-0703 min
RootedChronicles from Parchman #12: Robbery by DefaultThis is the latest installment in the Chronicles from Parchman series, a monthly column by writer, L. Patri, who has been fighting his wrongful conviction on Parchman’s death row for over thirty years. You can listen to the voiceover if you want to listen to Mr. Patri reading “Robbery by Default.” Please read the postscript for a dispatch from Mr. Patri regarding the upcoming execution date of Richard Jordan. When it comes to having access to people on the outsideAs a death row prisoner, I have rights that must abide.At this prison, MDOC gives me three...
2025-06-2302 min
RootedNeesha Powell-Ingabire's Personal History Intersects with the Collective History of Coastal GeorgiaThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comIn April, we talked with author Neesha Powell-Ingabire—who was just nominated for Georgia Author of the Year!—about their debut memoir-in-essays Come By Here. Neesha was vulnerable, honest, and authentic. She talked about how in writing about her own family history, she uncovered important moments in Black history that helped her understand her coastal Georgia roots in a new way. We also spoke about power of tears and the importance of reviving and reclaiming Black agricultural knowledge and traditions. Neesha also...
2025-05-3102 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Lauren RhoadesKristen Brandt sits down with Lauren Rhoades, a writer and editor living in Jackson, Mississippi. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Lauren has served with AmeriCorps, started Mississippi's first fermentation company, and helmed the Eudora Welty House & Garden. She is now the director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission. In 2022, Lauren founded Rooted Magazine, an online publication dedicated to telling unfiltered stories about what it means to call Mississippi home. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women. Kristen sits down with Lauren to discuss her debut memoir, Split the Baby: A Memoir in Pieces, which...
2025-05-2645 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Lauren RhoadesKristen Brandt sits down with Lauren Rhoades, a writer and editor living in Jackson, Mississippi. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Lauren has served with AmeriCorps, started Mississippi's first fermentation company, and helmed the Eudora Welty House & Garden. She is now the director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission. In 2022, Lauren founded Rooted Magazine, an online publication dedicated to telling unfiltered stories about what it means to call Mississippi home. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women. Kristen sits down with Lauren to discuss her debut memoir, Split the Baby: A Memoir in Pieces, which...
2025-05-2645 min
RootedChronicles from Parchman #11: Joe, Joe, and JoeThis is the latest installment in the Chronicles from Parchman series, a monthly column by writer, L. Patri, who has been fighting his wrongful conviction on Parchman’s death row for over thirty years. This week, Mr. Patri and I were able to record him reading his essay. Click “Listen to Post” if you want the audio experience. Important to note for this essay—though he writes under the pseudonym “L. Patri,” our author’s first name is Joesph.They tell me the dead don’t sleep, eat, nor rest, that they come to those they love in their hour of...
2025-05-0928 min
RootedBebe Wolf Finds Inspiration in the Oasis of HomeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comI hope you enjoyed reading the Rooted questionnaire of artist and owner of Wolfe Studio Bebe Wolfe. Today, I’m happy to share my full conversation with Bebe just with paid subscribers. You can listen on Substack or via the Rooted podcast on Spotify (other podcasting platforms will only have the preview version). Our conversation meandered from Mississip…
2025-05-0103 min
RootedChronicles from Parchman #10: Less Than a ChickenL. Patri reads his essay "Less Than a Chicken," the latest for his column, "Chronicles from Parchman." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rooted.substack.com/subscribe
2025-04-0706 min
RootedCatherine Simone Gray Collects "Sensation Words"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comDespite some technical difficulties on my end, our book club discussion with Catherine Simone Gray about her debut memoir Proud Flesh was a delight. Catherine was warm and thoughtful, and our book club participants were so insightful with their questions. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for this group of wise, intellectual, and caring readers.We cove…
2025-03-3100 min
RootedBeth Kander Had to Defend Her Decision to Write a 40-Year-Old ProtagonistThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comLast week Beth Kander joined our book club—moderated by me and Rooted Community Editor Shira Muroff—to talk about her darkly comedic, genre-defying, and utterly original novel I Made It Out of Clay. Beth was charming and funny and generous. She shared how she wrote the first draft of the book in under a month (spoiler alert: lots of coffee). She also talked about the publishing pros and cons of writing a “genre-defying” book, and the research that went into creating...
2025-03-0402 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Nadia AlexisLauren Rhoades talks with writer, photographer, and teacher Nadia Alexis, whose debut collection of poetry, BEYOND THE WATERSHED, was just released by Cavan Kerry Press. The book is a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and reclamation. Nadia was born and raised in Harlem, New York City, to Haitian immigrants, and she currently resides in Mississippi. Listen as they discuss Nadia Alexis's journey as an artist, the creation of her debut collection, and her experience as a Mississippi transplant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-0345 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Nadia AlexisLauren Rhoades talks with writer, photographer, and teacher Nadia Alexis, whose debut collection of poetry, BEYOND THE WATERSHED, was just released by Cavan Kerry Press. The book is a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and reclamation. Nadia was born and raised in Harlem, New York City, to Haitian immigrants, and she currently resides in Mississippi. Listen as they discuss Nadia Alexis's journey as an artist, the creation of her debut collection, and her experience as a Mississippi transplant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-0345 min
RootedMaude Schuyler Clay is a "Fiction Junkie"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comToday I’m sharing my full recorded interview with Maude Schuyler Clay. This uncut version of our conversation is just for paid subscribers. You can also listen to the episode via the Rooted podcast on Spotify (other podcasting platforms will only have the preview version). Maude is a delightful storyteller, and throughout our conversation she shared anecdotes about the many Mississippi fiction writers she’s collaborated with over the years, including Lewis Nordan, Richard Ford, Brad Watson and Beth Ann Fennelly. She...
2025-02-0601 min
RootedMax Hipp Writes Stories in the Morning and Songs at NightIn December, author Max Hipp joined our book club to talk about his unforgettable collection of stories: What Doesn’t Kill You Opens Your Heart. Max revealed that the stories in this collection span twenty years of writing. As a musician, Max discussed the the distinct ways he approaches writing stories and writing songs. And he also shared his process of fictionalizing real places in his work.Thank you, Max! Thanks again to our partners: Mississippi Book Festival, Lemuria Books, and Friendly City Books. The team at Red Squared records and produces these discussions at their studio in...
2025-01-211h 00
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Robert PooreLauren Rhoades sits down with 2025 Governor's Arts Awards Excellence in Visual Arts and Landscape Architecture recipient Robert Poore. With a 36-year career rooted in artistry and design, Robert has dedicated himself to landscape architecture and creative collaborations with artists and cultural institutions. Robert's visionary work is showcased in some of the state's most beloved landscapes, including the Mississippi Art Garden, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Mississippi Children's Museum Literacy Garden, and the Crosby Arboretum. His legacy enhances the beauty of the South while protecting its rich heritage for generations to come. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast...
2025-01-2028 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Robert PooreLauren Rhoades sits down with 2025 Governor's Arts Awards Excellence in Visual Arts and Landscape Architecture recipient Robert Poore. With a 36-year career rooted in artistry and design, Robert has dedicated himself to landscape architecture and creative collaborations with artists and cultural institutions. Robert's visionary work is showcased in some of the state's most beloved landscapes, including the Mississippi Art Garden, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Mississippi Children's Museum Literacy Garden, and the Crosby Arboretum. His legacy enhances the beauty of the South while protecting its rich heritage for generations to come. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast...
2025-01-2028 min
RootedCurtis Wilkie Never Lost His AccentThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comToday I’m sharing the full interview with Curtis Wilkie, which we recorded back in October. We rarely put anything behind a paywall, but this uncut version of our conversation is just for paid subscribers. You can also listen to the episode via the Rooted podcast on Spotify (other podcasting platforms will only have the preview version, see comment belo…
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Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Louis BourgeoisThis week on the Arts Hour, Lauren Rhoades talks with Louis Bourgeois, founder of the Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative, whose goal is to teach and encourage creative writing and the arts in prisons across Mississippi. They’re also joined by Corey Carroll, a formerly incarcerated writer and visual artist whose writing and drawings are included in the recently released anthology, edited by Louis, titled Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison. Listen as they discuss the creation of the anthology, which includes the work of dozens of incarcerated writers, as well as the role of the creative arts in prisons Hosted on...
2024-12-1646 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Louis BourgeoisThis week on the Arts Hour, Lauren Rhoades talks with Louis Bourgeois, founder of the Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative, whose goal is to teach and encourage creative writing and the arts in prisons across Mississippi. They’re also joined by Corey Carroll, a formerly incarcerated writer and visual artist whose writing and drawings are included in the recently released anthology, edited by Louis, titled Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison. Listen as they discuss the creation of the anthology, which includes the work of dozens of incarcerated writers, as well as the role of the creative arts in prisons Hosted on...
2024-12-1646 min
RootedMeryl Wilsner Keeps a Giant Spreadsheet of Book IdeasLast month, best-selling author Meryl Wilsner joined our book club to talk about their sapphic soccer romance Cleat Cute. We had a buzzy chat about writing a character with ADHD, miscommunication as narrative device, and imagining a professional women’s soccer team based in New Orleans. Meryl even gave us some insight into what it was like to have their book optioned for TV by soccer superstars Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird’s production company. And yes, they do keep a giant spreadsheet full of book ideas. This conversation was so much fun—I hope you enjoy it.You...
2024-11-221h 01
RootedChronicles from Parchman #7: Better off Executed than EducatedThis is the seventh installment in the Chronicles from Parchman series, a monthly column by the talented and prolific writer, L. Patri, who has been incarcerated on Parchman’s death row for over thirty years. This week, Mr. Patri and I were able to record him reading his essay. Click “Listen to Post” if you want the audio experience. For twenty-two years, all of my lawyers were white people. I always had a feeling that they did not understand, comprehend, and really did not give me their all in my fight for my life and freedom. I couldn...
2024-11-1514 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Max HippLauren Rhoades talks with Max Hipp, a teacher, writer, and musician from Oxford, Mississippi. Hipp's debut collection of short stories, titled WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU OPENS YOUR HEART, was published this year. The characters in this collection howl with loneliness. They've reached the ends of their coping mechanisms and bank accounts and are making terrible life choices and trying to recover in the wake of them. As a reader, it’s impossible to look away. Listen as they discuss the book and Max Hipp’s creative process as both a writer and musician in Oxford. If you enjoyed listening to this...
2024-10-2143 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Max HippLauren Rhoades talks with Max Hipp, a teacher, writer, and musician from Oxford, Mississippi. Hipp's debut collection of short stories, titled WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU OPENS YOUR HEART, was published this year. The characters in this collection howl with loneliness. They've reached the ends of their coping mechanisms and bank accounts and are making terrible life choices and trying to recover in the wake of them. As a reader, it’s impossible to look away. Listen as they discuss the book and Max Hipp’s creative process as both a writer and musician in Oxford. If you enjoyed listening to this...
2024-10-2143 min
RootedRemembering the Pink House and the Right to Abortion in MississippiIn the fall of 2023, interdisciplinary artist Kristen Tordella-Williams and writer Liz Egan—both former Pink House defenders—invited reflections on the closing of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That project became Void, two 24” x 48” artist books with pages made of mended bed sheets and text written in iron dust. The project “commemorates those who preserved access to healthcare that once was tenuously available to all Mississippians. These books serve as a memorial to a community and to the void left behind by the fall of Roe v. Wade.”I got the chance to sit down and talk with Liz...
2024-10-1834 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Allen R. Wells and Shamar Knight-JusticeLauren Rhoades talks with children's book author Allen R. Wells and New York Times-bestselling children's book illustrator Shamar Knight-Justice. Their beautiful new picture book, Danté Plays His Blues, was published earlier this year. Danté Plays His Blues is a tender and heartwarming children's book about a boy affected by housing insecurity who learns the power of expressing his feelings through music. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-09-1643 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Allen R. Wells and Shamar Knight-JusticeLauren Rhoades talks with children's book author Allen R. Wells and New York Times-bestselling children's book illustrator Shamar Knight-Justice. Their beautiful new picture book, Danté Plays His Blues, was published earlier this year. Danté Plays His Blues is a tender and heartwarming children's book about a boy affected by housing insecurity who learns the power of expressing his feelings through music. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-09-1643 min
RootedOn Writing toward Nourishment with Aimee NezhukumatathilIn August, best-selling author Aimee Nezhukumatathil joined our book club to talk about her delectable and life-giving collection of food essays, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees. The chat was hopping with questions and comments from listeners, and Aimee graciously responded to them all. (Most memorably, Eric shared that he tried the rice cooking hack that Aimee writes about in her essay on rice, much to the author’s delight.) Our conversation meandered from the lighthearted to the deeply personal, as we touched on topics like the pleasure of reading books with beautiful illustrations (each chapter of Bite by Bi...
2024-09-131h 03
RootedBook Club Replay: THE GREAT RIVER with Boyce UpholtLast month, author Boyce Upholt joined our book club to talk about his ambitious and riveting history, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi. There was a vibrant discussion in the book club chat! Folks asked great questions and Boyce captivated us with his knowledge and stories about Earthworks, the Army Corps of Engineers (yes, he makes engineering history interesting!), and the future he sees for flood control on the Mississippi. Boyce will be in Jackson for the Mississippi Book Festival on September 14, so you can get him to sign your book then. And if you’re...
2024-08-121h 02
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Noah SaterstromLauren Rhoades talks with artist Noah Saterstrom, whose exhibition What Became of Dr. Smith is currently on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art. What Became of Dr. Smith envisions the life of Saterstrom’s great-grandfather, a traveling optometrist who, according to family lore, disappeared in 1924. Through a years-long search in state, local, and private archives, Saterstrom discovered that his great-grandfather spent the final four decades of his life at the Mississippi State Insane Hospital (also known as the “Old Asylum”) in Jackson, and later at the Mississippi State Hospital in nearby Whitfield. Presented as an immersive narrative painting of 183 canvase...
2024-08-1246 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Noah SaterstromLauren Rhoades talks with artist Noah Saterstrom, whose exhibition What Became of Dr. Smith is currently on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art. What Became of Dr. Smith envisions the life of Saterstrom’s great-grandfather, a traveling optometrist who, according to family lore, disappeared in 1924. Through a years-long search in state, local, and private archives, Saterstrom discovered that his great-grandfather spent the final four decades of his life at the Mississippi State Insane Hospital (also known as the “Old Asylum”) in Jackson, and later at the Mississippi State Hospital in nearby Whitfield. Presented as an immersive narrative painting of 183 canvase...
2024-08-1246 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Larry WellsLauren Rhoades talks with author Lawrence Wells, whose memoir, Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession, was just published by the University Press of Mississippi, along with the novel Fair Youth, which he ghostwrote for Gertrude C. Ford. Larry is the director of Yoknapatawpha Press in Oxford, Mississippi, which he established with his late wife, Dean Faulkner Wells. The author of two historical novels, Rommel and the Rebel and Let the Band Play Dixie, Wells’ manuscript Ghostwriter, was awarded the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal for narrative non-fiction at the Words and Music Festival in New Orleans. If you...
2024-07-2244 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Larry WellsLauren Rhoades talks with author Lawrence Wells, whose memoir, Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession, was just published by the University Press of Mississippi, along with the novel Fair Youth, which he ghostwrote for Gertrude C. Ford. Larry is the director of Yoknapatawpha Press in Oxford, Mississippi, which he established with his late wife, Dean Faulkner Wells. The author of two historical novels, Rommel and the Rebel and Let the Band Play Dixie, Wells’ manuscript Ghostwriter, was awarded the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal for narrative non-fiction at the Words and Music Festival in New Orleans. If you...
2024-07-2244 min
RootedBook Club Replay: THAT PINSON GIRL with Gerry WilsonLast month, author Gerry Wilson joined our book club to talk about her richly imagined Southern Gothic novel, That Pinson Girl. She talked to us about writing about the influenza epidemic of 1918 while in the early days of the COVID pandemic, the family stories that served as inspiration for her characters, and the difficulty—and fun—of writing from a villain’s POV. Our book club members (me included!) really loved the novel. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly suggest picking up a copy of That Pinson Girl from your local bookstore or library.You can...
2024-07-0859 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Carys Glynne SnyderLauren Rhoades talks with filmmaker and FY24 MAC fellowship recipient Carys Glynne Snyder. After attending high school in Starkville, Carys graduated from Columbia University in 2019, where she studied screenwriting, acting, and art. Her short independent film “Io’s Lament,” which she wrote, produced, and starred in, won Best Homegrown Movie from this year’s Magnolia Film Festival. Carys is also a professional actor with over twenty short films under her belt. She is currently in the U.K. working on her first full-length feature film entitled “Washed Up,” which will be filmed in Cornwall. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, ple...
2024-06-171h 03Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Carys Glynne SnyderLauren Rhoades talks with filmmaker and FY24 MAC fellowship recipient Carys Glynne Snyder. After attending high school in Starkville, Carys graduated from Columbia University in 2019, where she studied screenwriting, acting, and art. Her short independent film “Io’s Lament,” which she wrote, produced, and starred in, won Best Homegrown Movie from this year’s Magnolia Film Festival. Carys is also a professional actor with over twenty short films under her belt. She is currently in the U.K. working on her first full-length feature film entitled “Washed Up,” which will be filmed in Cornwall. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, ple...
2024-06-171h 03
RootedBook Club Replay: GO BACK AND GET IT with Dionne FordIn May, Dionne Ford joined our book club to talk about her luminous and forthright memoir Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing. We talked about her writing process, finding the photo that started her quest through the annals of historical archives and genealogical records to find her ancestors, and the many research detours she took along the way. I especially loved hearing her talk about her experiences in Mississippi, including that she was able to bring her father, who was born here, back to Mississippi for the first time since leaving the...
2024-06-101h 00
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Gerry WilsonLauren Rhoades talks with author Gerry Wilson, whose new novel That Pinson Girl follows a young mother in a rural North Mississippi community, against the backdrop of the deprivation of World War I and the 1918 influenza epidemic. A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson grew up in the red clay hills of the north. Her short story collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories, was nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award. On the Arts Hour, Gerry talks about her journey to becoming a writer, her years as a high school English teacher, and, of course her new novel...
2024-05-2045 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Gerry WilsonLauren Rhoades talks with author Gerry Wilson, whose new novel That Pinson Girl follows a young mother in a rural North Mississippi community, against the backdrop of the deprivation of World War I and the 1918 influenza epidemic. A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson grew up in the red clay hills of the north. Her short story collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories, was nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award. On the Arts Hour, Gerry talks about her journey to becoming a writer, her years as a high school English teacher, and, of course her new novel...
2024-05-2045 min
RootedBook Club Replay: HOW TO STAY MARRIED with Harrison Scott KeyIn April, Harrison Scott Key joined our book club to talk about his heartbreaking and hilarious memoir How to Stay Married. I think we were all struck by how open and honest Harrison was about his life and writing. He talked to us about his writing process, why religion and spirituality is such an important piece of the book, and what it’s been like to have a deeply personal and vulnerable memoir out in the world. I think you will enjoy this discussion even if you haven’t read the book.You can now listen to thes...
2024-05-101h 10
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Di RushingLauren Rhoades talks with Di Rushing, whose new memoir, The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery (University Press of Mississippi), tells her firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Winery Rushing. Di grew up in the Mississippi Delta. In 1976, she and her husband established the state's first winery near Merigold, Mississippi. A few years later, Di opened Top of the Cellar Tea Room and published a companion cookbook featuring its recipes. In 1990, she and her family relocated to Ouray, Colorado, where she taught high school English for twenty years. Lauren...
2024-04-2244 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Di RushingLauren Rhoades talks with Di Rushing, whose new memoir, The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery (University Press of Mississippi), tells her firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Winery Rushing. Di grew up in the Mississippi Delta. In 1976, she and her husband established the state's first winery near Merigold, Mississippi. A few years later, Di opened Top of the Cellar Tea Room and published a companion cookbook featuring its recipes. In 1990, she and her family relocated to Ouray, Colorado, where she taught high school English for twenty years. Lauren...
2024-04-2244 min
RootedBook Club Recording: THE WEEDS with Katy Simpson SmithIn March, I talked with Katy Simpson Smith and Rooted book club members about Katy’s layered and immersive novel, The Weeds. Katy spoke about her research process, how her experience in academia shaped the narrative arc of one of the protagonists, and the surprising ways in which her home state creeped into the novel. This was a fun discussion. Even if you haven’t read the book, I think you will enjoy listening in. There are no spoilers in this one!If you want to go the extra mile, leave The Weeds a five star review on G...
2024-04-1256 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| A H Jerriod AvantLauren Rhoades talks with poet A H Jerriod Avant, the 2024-2025 John and Renee Grisham Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Jerriod was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, Jerriod has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. His debut collection of poetry, Muscadine (Four Way Books), was published in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1747 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| A H Jerriod AvantLauren Rhoades talks with poet A H Jerriod Avant, the 2024-2025 John and Renee Grisham Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Jerriod was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, Jerriod has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. His debut collection of poetry, Muscadine (Four Way Books), was published in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1747 min
RootedBook Club Recording: WE ARE A HAUNTING with Tyriek WhiteIn February, I talked with Tyriek White and Rooted book club members about Tyriek’s lyrical and award-winning novel We Are a Haunting (Astra House, 2023). Tyriek spoke about the meaning behind his beautiful book cover, his unique approach to crafting setting and character, and the ways in which living in Mississippi influenced the writing of this book. This was a deep and valuable discussion. Even if you haven’t read the book, I think you will enjoy listening in. Just know that we do discuss a couple light spoilers.If you want to go the extra mile, leav...
2024-03-081h 04
RootedBook Club Recording: THE STEPS WE TAKE with Ellen Ann FentressIn January, I talked with Ellen Ann Fentress and the book club squad about her brilliant memoir The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning (University Press of Mississippi, 2023). Ellen Ann always speaks with candor and clarity about even the most complex and uncomfortable of topics. I enjoyed diving into this rich discussion with her and the rest of our fabulously insightful participants. Talking about The Steps We Take was a great kick-off to the Rooted Book Club! I hope you enjoy this replay.If you want to go the extra mile, leave The Steps We...
2024-02-2659 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Rachel DangermondLauren Rhoades talks with Rachel Dangermond, owner of 100 Men Hall, a 2024 Governor Arts Award Recipient. 100 Men Hall is one of the few physical landmarks still standing on the Mississippi Blues Trail, a rare African American landmark in the South, and today operates as a living museum and testament to its past, present, and future. Rachel Dangermond has kept the spirit of the Hall alive by providing a space to celebrate cultural diversity through performances on its historic stage. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. S...
2024-01-0845 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Rachel DangermondLauren Rhoades talks with Rachel Dangermond, owner of 100 Men Hall, a 2024 Governor Arts Award Recipient. 100 Men Hall is one of the few physical landmarks still standing on the Mississippi Blues Trail, a rare African American landmark in the South, and today operates as a living museum and testament to its past, present, and future. Rachel Dangermond has kept the spirit of the Hall alive by providing a space to celebrate cultural diversity through performances on its historic stage. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. S...
2024-01-0845 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| C.T. SalazarLauren Rhoades talks with C.T. Salazar, a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. Their debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, was published in 2022 with Acre Books. They also edited Mid/South Sonnets, a poetry anthology released this summer with Belle Point Press. C.T. is also the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. He lives in Cleveland, Mississippi, where he is a Reference Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at Delta State University. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast...
2023-11-0644 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| C.T. SalazarLauren Rhoades talks with C.T. Salazar, a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. Their debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, was published in 2022 with Acre Books. They also edited Mid/South Sonnets, a poetry anthology released this summer with Belle Point Press. C.T. is also the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. He lives in Cleveland, Mississippi, where he is a Reference Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at Delta State University. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast...
2023-11-0644 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Ellen Ann FentressLauren Rhoades talks with writer, journalist, and MAC artist fellowship recipient Ellen Ann Fentress. A lifelong Mississippian, Ellen Ann is a literary nonfiction writer, journalist, filmmaker, and podcaster. She worked as a newspaper and radio reporter in Mississippi and also freelanced for national dailies. She currently teaches nonfiction in the Mississippi University for Women’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her debut memoir-in-essays, The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning, was just published by the University Press of Mississippi. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on...
2023-09-1845 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Ellen Ann FentressLauren Rhoades talks with writer, journalist, and MAC artist fellowship recipient Ellen Ann Fentress. A lifelong Mississippian, Ellen Ann is a literary nonfiction writer, journalist, filmmaker, and podcaster. She worked as a newspaper and radio reporter in Mississippi and also freelanced for national dailies. She currently teaches nonfiction in the Mississippi University for Women’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her debut memoir-in-essays, The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning, was just published by the University Press of Mississippi. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on...
2023-09-1845 min
The Friendly City Books PodcastAuthor Interview - Nyani NkrumahNyani Nkrumah was born in Boston and raised in Ghana and Zimbabwe. She developed her love of reading and writing from her mother, who taught English Literature and Language and encouraged her children to recite poems and Shakespeare soliloquies. After graduating from Amherst College with a dual major in Biology and Black Studies, Nkrumah received her master’s at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She has lived in the Washington, DC, region for the past twenty years.Nyani's debut novel, Wade in the Water (bookshop.org)(libro.fm) is a gripping de...
2023-09-1145 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Exodus BrownlowLauren Rhoades talks with writer and MAC artist fellowship recipient Exodus Brownlow. Exodus graduated from Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English and earned her MFA in creative writing from Mississippi University for Women. Her debut fiction chapbook “Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives” and “The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves” were published with Ethel Zine & Micro-Press this year, along with her debut collection of essays “I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I've Known All That I...
2023-08-2846 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Exodus BrownlowLauren Rhoades talks with writer and MAC artist fellowship recipient Exodus Brownlow. Exodus graduated from Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English and earned her MFA in creative writing from Mississippi University for Women. Her debut fiction chapbook “Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives” and “The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves” were published with Ethel Zine & Micro-Press this year, along with her debut collection of essays “I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I've Known All That I...
2023-08-2846 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Katy Simpson SmithLauren Rhoades talks with novelist Katy Simpson Smith, who was born and raised in Jackson and now lives in New Orleans. Katy's fourth novel, THE WEEDS, was published this spring. She is also the author of the novels THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA, FREE MEN, and THE EVERLASTING, as well as a book of nonfiction. On the Arts Hour, Katy talks about her unconventional path to writing fiction and the process for writing her most recent novel set in Rome. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Ho...
2023-06-1247 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Katy Simpson SmithLauren Rhoades talks with novelist Katy Simpson Smith, who was born and raised in Jackson and now lives in New Orleans. Katy's fourth novel, THE WEEDS, was published this spring. She is also the author of the novels THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA, FREE MEN, and THE EVERLASTING, as well as a book of nonfiction. On the Arts Hour, Katy talks about her unconventional path to writing fiction and the process for writing her most recent novel set in Rome. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Ho...
2023-06-1247 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Roderick RedLauren Rhoades talks with documentary film director, writer and producer Roderick Red. Roderick is also the owner of Red Squared Co, a video production and communication design firm based in Jackson. Tune in to hear more about Roderick's entrepreneurial path and unique approach to community building and creativity. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-05-1545 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Roderick RedLauren Rhoades talks with documentary film director, writer and producer Roderick Red. Roderick is also the owner of Red Squared Co, a video production and communication design firm based in Jackson. Tune in to hear more about Roderick's entrepreneurial path and unique approach to community building and creativity. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-05-1545 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Church Goin MuleLauren Rhoades talks with Church Goin Mule, a Southern artist born and raised across the South. Mule's work is influenced by Southern literature and music and has been exhibited widely across the Southeast. Today she can also be found managing the JX Farms artist residency in Cleveland, Mississippi. Tune in to learn about Church Goin Mule's artistic journey and the inspiration she gathers from the Delta landscape and community. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-0647 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Church Goin MuleLauren Rhoades talks with Church Goin Mule, a Southern artist born and raised across the South. Mule's work is influenced by Southern literature and music and has been exhibited widely across the Southeast. Today she can also be found managing the JX Farms artist residency in Cleveland, Mississippi. Tune in to learn about Church Goin Mule's artistic journey and the inspiration she gathers from the Delta landscape and community. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-0647 min
Story Made PodcastTema StaufferOur 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...
2023-02-131h 01
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Ralph EubanksLauren Rhoades talks with Ralph Eubanks, the 2023 Governor’s Arts Award-winner for Excellence in Literature & Cultural Ambassador. Eubanks is a writer whose work focuses on race, identity, and the American South. He is faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at The University of Mississippi - Ole Miss. He is the author of the book A Place Like Mississippi, as well as two other works of nonfiction, Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://do...
2023-01-3044 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Ralph EubanksLauren Rhoades talks with Ralph Eubanks, the 2023 Governor’s Arts Award-winner for Excellence in Literature & Cultural Ambassador. Eubanks is a writer whose work focuses on race, identity, and the American South. He is faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at The University of Mississippi - Ole Miss. He is the author of the book A Place Like Mississippi, as well as two other works of nonfiction, Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://do...
2023-01-3044 min
TracesofFaith With Traci RhoadesTracesoffaith - Episode 22 (Girl Meets God)Here's my blog post: "Ten Books on Faith That Changed Me"
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2023-01-2410 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Ann Fisher-WirthLauren Rhoades talks with Dr.Ann Fisher-Wirth, the 2023 Governor’s Arts Award-winner for Excellence in Literature and Poetry. Fisher-Wirth is a poet, scholar, and environmental educator who has lived all over the world. Her seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books in February. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-0245 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Ann Fisher-WirthLauren Rhoades talks with Dr.Ann Fisher-Wirth, the 2023 Governor’s Arts Award-winner for Excellence in Literature and Poetry. Fisher-Wirth is a poet, scholar, and environmental educator who has lived all over the world. Her seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books in February. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-0245 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler ClayLauren Rhoades talks with Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler Clay, two artists who have special exhibitions now at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Jamal Cyrus is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist whose works explore the evolution of African American identity. Maude Schuyler Clay is a Mississippi photographer with generational roots in the Delta. Tune in to learn about their artistic practices and current exhibitions: Cyrus’s “The End of My Beginning” and Clay’s “Portraits of a Place.” If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on A...
2022-12-0546 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler ClayLauren Rhoades talks with Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler Clay, two artists who have special exhibitions now at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Jamal Cyrus is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist whose works explore the evolution of African American identity. Maude Schuyler Clay is a Mississippi photographer with generational roots in the Delta. Tune in to learn about their artistic practices and current exhibitions: Cyrus’s “The End of My Beginning” and Clay’s “Portraits of a Place.” If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on A...
2022-12-0546 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Gloria Gipson SuggsLauren Rhoades talks with Gloria Gipson Suggs, a visual artist whose work seeks to preserve heritage and cultural pride. A native and resident of Marshall County, Gloria was named the 2022 South Arts State Fellow of Mississippi. After several accidents brought her twenty-plus-year career in education to a halt, she turned to art in her recovery. Her work depicts people, places, and things from the Civil War, Depression, and Desegregation Eras as passed down through folklore, written and oral history, photographs, and her own experience. Gloria is also a musician and the author of several books of fiction and poetry.
2022-11-0744 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Gloria Gipson SuggsLauren Rhoades talks with Gloria Gipson Suggs, a visual artist whose work seeks to preserve heritage and cultural pride. A native and resident of Marshall County, Gloria was named the 2022 South Arts State Fellow of Mississippi. After several accidents brought her twenty-plus-year career in education to a halt, she turned to art in her recovery. Her work depicts people, places, and things from the Civil War, Depression, and Desegregation Eras as passed down through folklore, written and oral history, photographs, and her own experience. Gloria is also a musician and the author of several books of fiction and poetry.
2022-11-0744 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Tema StaufferLauren Rhoades talks with Tema Stauffer, a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of American spaces. Tema's new series of photographs, SOUTHERN FICTION, explores the settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers, including Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright. A monograph of SOUTHERN FICTION will be released by Daylight Books this month.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-0347 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Tema StaufferLauren Rhoades talks with Tema Stauffer, a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of American spaces. Tema's new series of photographs, SOUTHERN FICTION, explores the settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers, including Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright. A monograph of SOUTHERN FICTION will be released by Daylight Books this month.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-0347 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Lauren Rhoades and Ellie BanksLeslie Barker talks with two new MAC staff members, Director of Grants, Lauren Rhoades, and Communications Director, Ellie Banks. Lauren and Ellie will tell us about their work at the Arts Commission and how they express their creativity.In the photo, Lauren Rhoades is on the left and Ellie Banks is on the right.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-09-1944 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Lauren Rhoades and Ellie BanksLeslie Barker talks with two new MAC staff members, Director of Grants, Lauren Rhoades, and Communications Director, Ellie Banks. Lauren and Ellie will tell us about their work at the Arts Commission and how they express their creativity.In the photo, Lauren Rhoades is on the left and Ellie Banks is on the right.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-09-1944 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Iheoma NwachukwuLauren Rhoades talks with fiction writer Dr. Iheoma Nwachukwu, a recipient of one of MAC's highly competitive artist fellowships. They talk about Nwachukwu 's writing style and influences, and his journey from growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, to playing professional chess, to now teaching as an assistant professor at the Mississippi University for Women. Photo by Chinenye Nwachukwu.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-09-1247 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Iheoma NwachukwuLauren Rhoades talks with fiction writer Dr. Iheoma Nwachukwu, a recipient of one of MAC's highly competitive artist fellowships. They talk about Nwachukwu 's writing style and influences, and his journey from growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, to playing professional chess, to now teaching as an assistant professor at the Mississippi University for Women. Photo by Chinenye Nwachukwu.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-09-1247 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Annette TrefzerLauren Rhoades talks with Annette Trefzer, professor of literature at The University of Mississippi and author of the new book Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections. They discuss Eudora Welty's work as a photographer and Annette's fascinating research in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Welty Collection.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-08-0843 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Annette TrefzerLauren Rhoades talks with Annette Trefzer, professor of literature at The University of Mississippi and author of the new book Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections. They discuss Eudora Welty's work as a photographer and Annette's fascinating research in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Welty Collection.If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-08-0843 min
Mississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Guillermo "Billy" SalinasLauren Rhoades (@laurenrhoades) talks with Jackson-based visual artist and pastry chef Guillermo "Billy" Salinas (@guillermosalinasart) about his experience on a Food Network baking competition, his plein air drawing practice, and his newest culinary venture, Just Vanilla Bakes (@just.vanilla.bakes). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-07-1845 minMississippi Arts HourThe Mississippi Arts Hour| Guillermo "Billy" SalinasLauren Rhoades (@laurenrhoades) talks with Jackson-based visual artist and pastry chef Guillermo "Billy" Salinas (@guillermosalinasart) about his experience on a Food Network baking competition, his plein air drawing practice, and his newest culinary venture, Just Vanilla Bakes (@just.vanilla.bakes). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-07-1845 min
Story Made PodcastLauren RhoadesOur conversation this week is with Lauren Rhoades. One of the first friends of the project, Lauren is a literature and arts lover, life-giving gardener, marvelous writer, and a proud resident of Jackson, Mississippi. I met her when she served as the Director of the Eudora Welty House & Garden, though she is now at the Mississippi Arts Commmission. This conversation happened during one of Lauren's last days at the Welty House. You'll hear about her first time touring the house when she moved to Jackson, lots about Eudora's life and writing, and many grand threads of connection...
2022-05-0959 min
Soul Sessions JacksonLauren RhoadesIn this episode: Lauren Rhoades is the director of the Eudora Welty House & Garden in Jackson. Originally from Colorado, Lauren moved to Jackson in 2013 to work with FoodCorps, an AmeriCorps program. Prior to her work at the Welty House, Lauren founded and operated Sweet & Sauer, Mississippi’s first fermentation company. Her kimchi received a 2018 Southern Living Food Award. Outside of work, Lauren is a gardener, writer and an MFA candidate at the Mississippi University for Women.
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2020-10-1518 min
Jxn TransplantsEpisode 53: Lauren RhoadesIn Episode 53, Ashlee chats with Lauren Rhoades, Writer, Lazy Gardener, Lowbrow Foodie, and Director of the Eudora Welty House and Garden. Prior to her work at the Welty House, Lauren founded Sweet & Sauer, Mississippi's first fermentation company.
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2020-04-1547 min
Women of Substance Music Podcast#1040 Music by Jill Detroit, Carly Rhoades, The Pursuit from the Original Wilson Mower Pursuit Detroit, Rachel Anne Cox, Amy Elise, Kari Tieger, Liz Wojtal, Micropixie, Carie Lauren, Geraldine De’BorahTo get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Jill Detroit - Finding My Happy Carly Rhoades - Every Breath You Take The Pursuit from the Original Wilson Mower Pursuit Detroit - Essence of Now (feat. Marcia Worthington) Rachel Anne Cox - Jesse’s Theme Amy Elise - Ctrl Alt Del Kari Tieger - Rosebud Liz Wojtal - Empathy Micropixie - Indifferent Carie Lauren - Happy Day Geraldine De'Borah - Its the Music For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Louis Antony DeLise at: Visit our Sponsor Keri Tie...
2020-01-2437 min
Young Life Funding Help PodcastThe Power of Invitation with Lauren BocciWe are particularly excited about THIS guest! In this episode we get to meet the new Senior Director of Marketing, Lauren Bocci, and hear how her department can help your area. Remember to maximize your time for ministry with kids by Building a Financially Healthy Culture.
This podcast includes Pat Rhoades and Greg Lehman from the Field Development department as well as special guest, Lauren Bocci. Listen in!
2018-11-1510 min
Deep South DiningSweet & SauerLauren Rhoades from Sweet & Sauer is using locally grown ingredients to create flavorful and healthy fermented foods. She talks with Kevin and Deborah about her products, her fermentation process, and how you can learn to go from Farm to Ferment.
2017-08-0700 min
Deep South DiningSweet & SauerLauren Rhoades from Sweet & Sauer is using locally grown ingredients to create flavorful and healthy fermented foods. She talks with Kevin and Deborah about her products, her fermentation process, and how you can learn to go from Farm to Ferment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-08-0700 min