Ep. 53 | Jayne Anne Phillips: Small Town Girls
In this season premiere of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips about her new memoir Small Town Girls.
Things Mentioned
Books Mentioned
Small Town Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
A Death in the Family by James Agee
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake by Breece d'j Pancake
Guest Info
(c) Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York.