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Conversations with Jesmyn Ward
About this book
Jesmyn Ward (b. 1977) is arguably one of today's most important authors. Although often compared to William Faulkner, Ward and her writings have done anything but live in that shadow since the 2008 debut of her first novel Where the Line Bleeds. She has produced four novels and a memoir that are equally harrowing and heartening, and she is the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones (2011) and Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017).
Spanning from 2009 to the present, the interviews collected in Conversations with Jesmyn Ward display a master artist with a poetic command for words. Ward's personality and writing style could be characterized as gentle, passionate, fastidious, queer, and brutally honest, as her soft-spoken voice and lyrical prose express a passion for the world so large and consuming that it often emanates as rage or sadness but always leaves readers with a bit of hope. She speaks at length about grief, her writing process, and a love-hate relationship with her home state of Mississippi and the South, as well as the influence that her family, hip-hop music and culture, and vigorous childhood reading have on her writing.
Spanning from 2009 to the present, the interviews collected in Conversations with Jesmyn Ward display a master artist with a poetic command for words. Ward's personality and writing style could be characterized as gentle, passionate, fastidious, queer, and brutally honest, as her soft-spoken voice and lyrical prose express a passion for the world so large and consuming that it often emanates as rage or sadness but always leaves readers with a bit of hope. She speaks at length about grief, her writing process, and a love-hate relationship with her home state of Mississippi and the South, as well as the influence that her family, hip-hop music and culture, and vigorous childhood reading have on her writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Getting the South Right: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- Jesmyn Ward on Salvage the Bones
- In Salvage the Bones, Familyâs Story of Survival
- Jesmyn Ward by Rebecca Keith
- New Memoir Recounts Black Lives âReapedâ Too Young
- Jesmyn Ward: Men We Reaped
- The Rumpus Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- Jesmyn Ward on How Books Can Make Us Better People
- Bookforum Talks with Jesmyn Ward
- Literary Voice of the Dirty South: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- Haunted by Ghosts: The Millions Interviews Jesmyn Ward
- Powellâs Interview: Jesmyn Ward, Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
- Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward
- Ghosts of Our Past: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- Ghosts of History: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
- Jesmyn Ward: âSo Much of Life Is Pain and Sorrow and Willful Ignoranceâ
- For Jesmyn Ward, Writing Means Telling the âTruth About the Place that I Live Inâ
- The Carnegie Shortlist Interviews: Jesmyn Ward
- Jesmyn Ward
- Jesmyn Ward on Writing Honest Novels with Good Titles, Inhabiting Ghosts, and Learning to Love Faulkner
- Two-Time National Book AwardâWinning Author Jesmyn Ward on Her Novel Let Us Descend
- Poured Over: Jesmyn Ward on Let Us Descend
- Something Beautiful Out of the Darkness
- âWriting is Restorativeâ: A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward
- Additional Resources
- Index
- About the Editor