(#101 - Eudora Welty)

“She was the kindest, most gentle person any of us ever knew,” says host Gene Edwards of Eudora Welty. “To facilitate telling stories about her in her own living room is a dream come true.”

Mississippi Public Broadcasting crew carried the Writers round table directly into Eudora Welty’s book-filled living room. Then Welty friends Roger Mudd, William Winter, and Suzanne Marrs joined Edwards for an hour of memories and anecdotes.

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(#102 - Short Stories)

Short Story Writers, is a master class in the short story, and has as guests some of the best authors working today.

Alistair MacLeod has been named one of the 200 best writers in English in the last 50 years, and he recently won the Dublin Literary IMPAC Award. From Windsor, Ontario, Canada, he is retired from the University of Windsor, where he taught creative writing and 19th century British literature. MacLeod was raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the site of many of his short stories. He is regularly proclaimed as one of the living masters of the short story.

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(#103/#104 - Novelists)

Tim Gautreaux, author of "The Clearing," began writing fiction when someone gave him an old Remington typewriter. The preteen found a pen pal in Canada and started sending him about 1500 words a week. “In 1958, in Morgan City, Louisiana, there’s not much to talk about so I ran out of material after about three letters and began to lie,” says the critically acclaimed author. “I told him I had a pet alligator with a saddle on it. Stuff like that.”

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(#105 - Humorists)

“How do you tell someone how to write funny?” asks host Gene Edward early in his interview with three Southern humorists. “It’s the way you eyeball the situation,” Julia Reed, a senior writer at Vogue, responds. Going from pathos that he can’t stand to humor that he can is Roy Blount, Jr.s’ method. And Jill Conner Browne advises that if you’re struggling to write humor, you’re not funny.

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(#106 - Food Writers)

In his highly praised cookbook, Frank Stitt tells the stories of his life. He remembers being at his mother’s table or being in the kitchen with people in France. “Those are all food memories that I think move me in an emotional way,” the chef says. “That’s something you need to express.” These stories are part of the acclaimed Frank Stitt’s "Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill," published in 2004 and already in it’s third printing. "Bon Appetit" has named him a culinary legend, and his Birmingham restaurant has been called one of the best in the nation.

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(#107 - Historical Fiction)

“Even when I'm not working, I'm working,” says Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones of his life as a novelist. “I can be waiting for the bus and, you know, and working out something out in my head, a particular scene in my head.” Jones joins fellow historical fiction writers Jeffrey Lent and David Anthony Durham for an hour of insight into their craft. “I don't know how the creative mind works. It just does.” He calls writing a great pleasure.

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(#108 - Civil Rights Investigative Reporters)

"I was just horrified that these guys had gotten away with murder." For Jerry Mitchell, seeing the movie Mississippi Burning was the beginning of his education on the Civil Rights Movement. His investigative reporting into the crimes of a previous generation has led to new trials and eight convictions in Mississippi , all since 1994. "It's your job as a reporter to go out there and expose the truth," he says of his work.

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(#109 - The Blues)

“What I found were some pieces of paper on the floor at the Lomax Archives,” says author Robert Gordon. They were documentation about the 1941 field trip when Muddy Waters was first recorded, but writings weren't by Alan Lomax. They were from Fisk University scholars. Gordon was researching his biography on the blues great, but he took what he calls a “right turn” and set off in pursuit of more of these papers.

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(#110 - Renegade Writers)

Acclaimed authors Barry Hannah and William Gay join Rash at the Writers' roundtable. The three masters of Southern Gothic talk about what they write, why they write, and how they write.

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(#111 - Remembering Willie Morris)

Willie Morris’ list of achievements goes on and on—high school valedictorian, Rhodes scholar, youngest editor ever of Harper’s Magazine, best selling author… He was a mentor, a friend, a father and a husband. And he was a Mississippian.

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(#112 - Three Ladies)

I think there’s an impulse to categorize women’s writing, regardless of its rigor, as chicklit,” states Tayari Jones. The award-winning novelist responds to host Gene Edwards’ initial question “Do women writers get enough credit?” Ellen Douglas and Suzanne Hudson join them at the Writers’ roundtable.

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(#113 - World War II Writers)

“December 7th pushed it over the edge,” declares author/historian Ron Drez of the forces propelling the United Stated into World War II. Drez, an associate of the late Stephen Ambrose, Vietnam veteran and author of several books, is one of the guests at the roundtable in Writers: World War II.

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