Ep. 57: Tessa Fontaine & Meg Reid

TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books Podcast

When her mother suffers a stroke, Tessa Fontaine joins the traveling circus sideshow. She recounts this unique time in her life in her incredible new memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN. She and James talk about being okay with not knowing what you're writing about, how first books are like teenagers, and finding the untold story. And, she is the first guest (to James's knowledge) to flashback to Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight." Plus, Meg Reid of Hub City Writers Project.

Tessa Fontaine: http://www.tessafontaine.com/home.html

Tessa and James discuss:

Annie Hartnett

Harper

University of Alabama

University of Utah

Freytag's Pyramid

LET'S NO ONE GET HURT by Jon Pineda

"The First Cut is the Deepest" by Sheryl Crow

"Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry

Cormac McCarthy

Ernest Hemingway

Jenna Johnson

HELL'S ANGELS by Hunter S. Thompson

- Meg Reid: (Hub City) https://hubcity.org/

(Book Design) http://www.megireid.com/

Meg and James discuss:

WPA

Newtonville Books

Turnrow Book Co.

Square Books

Tessa Fontaine

Betsy Teter

Publisher's Group West

Dzanc Books

Milkweed Editions

OVER THE PLAIN HOUSES by Julia Franks

FLIGHT PATH by Hannah Palmer

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Sewanee

WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith

Emily L. Smith

Lookout Books

ECOTONE

UNC-Wilmington

NEA

Sarabande Books

Carolina Wren Press

THE HANDS OF STRANGERS by Michael Farris Smith

Lemuria Books

Parnassus Books

Eric Svenson

Kelly Estep

Carmichael's Books

Bookmarks in Winston-Salem

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