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A Haunting Southern Story Set in the Wild Mississippi Delta Four years after Kelly Mustian's USA Today bestselling debut novel, The Girls in the Stilt House, started appearing on "must-read" lists and earning starred reviews, the author is set to release her much-anticipated second novel on April 1, 2025. Like her first, The River Knows Your Name is already gathering buzz as a tumultuous and "well-woven mystery." Emily Matchar, author of In the Shadow of the Greenbrier, wrote, "You won't be able to put the book down until the last puzzle piece of their dual-timeline family mystery clicks into place." Attend the Author Interview & Book Signing Kelly Mustian was in conversation with interviewer Jane Wood on Monday, April 7, 2025 at the Beaches Branch Library. This program was made possible by the support of the Friends of the Beaches Branch Library. The River Knows Your Name For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase—a record of Evie's birth listing a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy. In dual storylines decades apart, Nell, forty-two in 1971, reaches into the past to uncover dangerous, long-buried secrets, and Becca, a young mother in the early 1930s, presses ahead, each moving toward 1934, the catastrophic year that would forever link them. From a windswept ghost town long forgotten to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill to a moody nightclub stage, Evie's other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi in a story of hardship and perseverance, of betrayal and trust, and of unexpected redemption in a world in which the lines between heroes and culprits are not always clearly drawn. Kelly Mustian is the USA Today bestselling author of The Girls in the Stilt House and The River Knows Your Name. She is the recipient of the Mississippi Library Association's 2023 Author Award for Fiction, and The Girls in the Stilt House was shortlisted for the 2022 Crook's Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and commercial magazines. Originally from Mississippi, she currently lives in North Carolina. Read Her Work Check out Kelly's books from the Library: https://jaxpl.na4.iiivega.com/search?query=Kelly%20Mustian&searchType=agent&pageSize=10 Did you know that all of our Lit Chat authors' books count toward your Jax Stacks Reading Challenge completion? Find out what authors we're hosting this month and join in on the fun: https://jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/events?term=lit+chat&n=180&r=days Interviewer Jane R. Wood is the author of six award-winning juvenile fiction books where she weaves history and science into stories filled with mystery, adventure, and humor for young readers ages 8-14. She has also written a nonfiction how-to book for authors called Schools: A Niche Market for Authors. Note: All of her books are available at Jacksonville Public Library. You May Also Like... Read-Alikes for Kelly Mustian The Women by Kristin Hannah The Briar Club by Kate Quinn None of This is True by Lisa Jewell Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner Find Me by Alafair Burke --- Never miss an event! Sign up for email newsletters at https://bit.ly/JaxLibraryUpdates Jacksonville Public LibraryWebsite: https://jaxpubliclibrary.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaxlibrary Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaxLibrary/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaxlibrary/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxpubliclibraryfl Contact Us: jplpromotions@coj.net
Why are so many people drawn to cooking, crafts and lifestyles from a bygone era? How do Etsy, Pinterest and mommy blogs fuel new domesticity? Tune in to this classic episode as Cristen and Caroline interview with Emily Matchar on her book on the new domesticity movement Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the recent escalation of tensions with Iran, new allegations of rape against President Trump, and controversy on the knitting social media network Ravelry. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Tensions between Iran and the United States are escalating. Niki recommended Robert D. Kaplan’s article at the New York Times on the connection between U.S. concerns in Asia and the Middle East. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is the latest woman to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. Natalia referred to Megan Garber’s Atlantic article about attention fatigue and sexual violence in the Trump era and to historian Estelle B. Freedman’s book Redefining Rape. Knitting social media network Ravelry has revised its policy to prohibit any pro-Trump projects on its site. Natalia referred to writer Emily Matchar’s book Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity. In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History: Natalia recommended the online documentary project 1938 Projekt. Neil discussed a new Harris Poll that showed decreased support among young people for LGBTQ rights. Niki reflected on the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden about busing at the Democratic debate, sharing historian Matt Delmont’s Twitter thread and Brett Gadsden’s Politico article, “Here’s How Deep Biden’s Busing Problem Runs.”
C’est un sujet un peu particulier pour Plan Culinaire que nous abordons dans ce nouvel épisode, car il nous divise. Nora adore faire à manger, tandis que Mélissa ne sait pas cuisiner et n’arrive pas à s’y mettre.Pourquoi devrait-on savoir cuisiner et y prendre du plaisir ? Pourquoi tant de pression autour de cette compétence ? Et est-ce que faire à manger est une tâche domestique bien à part ?Pour comprendre ce qui se joue autour de ce savoir-faire, on a interrogé une jeune femme pour qui nourrir sa famille est devenue une corvée et qui a forcé son conjoint à s’y mettre, ainsi qu’un homme qui a appris, petit à petit, à aimer cuisiner. Une autrice américaine a analysé le retour aux fourneaux observé ces dernières années et une chercheuse nous a parlé de l’importance de la formation à la cuisine dès le plus jeune âge.Et puisque la théorie ne suffit pas, on a aussi passé un peu de temps en cuisine, on vous laisse découvrir…Vous pouvez vous abonner à Plan Culinaire sur Apple Podcasts, sur votre appli préférée grâce à notre flux, sur Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, YouTube, Deezer, Stitcher...Références citées dans l’épisode (ou pour continuer la réflexion)Recette de la quiche poireaux-chèvre sur le blog Mango and SaltLe livre d’Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New DomesticityLe programme AFCC “Arts de faire culinaires au collège”Sondage BVA 2017 : Les Français·es aiment-ils/elles cuisiner ?Sondage OpinionWay 2017 : Les Français·es et leurs dîners du quotidien See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We talk with Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught Apple product repair and support technician living in Sedan, Minnesota, a town with a population of less than fifty people. We talk about everything from growing up in a small town to setting up her independent repair business in the corner of her mom’s flower shop. We also talk a lot about the right to repair, a really important political issue that directly impacts repair workers like Lucy and all of us who use, consume, and depend on technologies from cars to smart phones. Additional links/info below... U.S. PIRG - Right to Repair Repair.org iFixit Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Fight for the 'Right to Repair'" Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Corporations are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair" Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue" Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "The Death of Media" Rosie Spinks, The Guardian, "We're All Losers to a Gadget Industry Built on Planned Obsolescence" Jason Koebler, Motherboard, "Tractor-Hacking Farmers Are Leading a Revolt Against Big Tech's Repair Monopolies" Matthew Gault, Motherboard, "The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World'" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Creo, "Place on Fire"
A couple of years ago I was living in a hip district of a university town in the Midwest. It had all the hip stuff you’d expect: a record store (and I mean record store), a big used bookstore, a greasy spoon, two dive bars, a coffee shop, and two restaurants where you could buy 40 dollar meals (hipsters splurge too!). Then, suddenly, a knitting store appeared. It looked out of place. Knitting? So I went in to take a look. Much to my surprise, it was full of hipsters, or rather hipster women. The place was very casual. It had a coffee bar, homemade cookies, and couches. You could just wander in, get a cuppa, and, well, knit. According to Emily Matchar, what I’d seen was a reflection of a return to domesticity. In Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity (Simon and Schuster, 2013), Matchar gives us the why and how of urban gardening, urban chickens, urban canning, and–that’s right–urban knitting and sewing. According to Matchar, youngish women are rejecting high-flying careers to go “back to the land,” so long as that land is in a city. A movement or a fad? Listen to the interview and judge for yourself. All I know is that now that I’ve read Matchar’s book, I have new respect for my mom. She was way ahead of the curve on this one. The woman made all her own clothes. And not only that, she had a career, though not a very high-flying one. She “had it all” before “having it all” was deemed impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A couple of years ago I was living in a hip district of a university town in the Midwest. It had all the hip stuff you’d expect: a record store (and I mean record store), a big used bookstore, a greasy spoon, two dive bars, a coffee shop, and two... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A couple of years ago I was living in a hip district of a university town in the Midwest. It had all the hip stuff you’d expect: a record store (and I mean record store), a big used bookstore, a greasy spoon, two dive bars, a coffee shop, and two restaurants where you could buy 40 dollar meals (hipsters splurge too!). Then, suddenly, a knitting store appeared. It looked out of place. Knitting? So I went in to take a look. Much to my surprise, it was full of hipsters, or rather hipster women. The place was very casual. It had a coffee bar, homemade cookies, and couches. You could just wander in, get a cuppa, and, well, knit. According to Emily Matchar, what I’d seen was a reflection of a return to domesticity. In Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity (Simon and Schuster, 2013), Matchar gives us the why and how of urban gardening, urban chickens, urban canning, and–that’s right–urban knitting and sewing. According to Matchar, youngish women are rejecting high-flying careers to go “back to the land,” so long as that land is in a city. A movement or a fad? Listen to the interview and judge for yourself. All I know is that now that I’ve read Matchar’s book, I have new respect for my mom. She was way ahead of the curve on this one. The woman made all her own clothes. And not only that, she had a career, though not a very high-flying one. She “had it all” before “having it all” was deemed impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A couple of years ago I was living in a hip district of a university town in the Midwest. It had all the hip stuff you’d expect: a record store (and I mean record store), a big used bookstore, a greasy spoon, two dive bars, a coffee shop, and two restaurants where you could buy 40 dollar meals (hipsters splurge too!). Then, suddenly, a knitting store appeared. It looked out of place. Knitting? So I went in to take a look. Much to my surprise, it was full of hipsters, or rather hipster women. The place was very casual. It had a coffee bar, homemade cookies, and couches. You could just wander in, get a cuppa, and, well, knit. According to Emily Matchar, what I’d seen was a reflection of a return to domesticity. In Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity (Simon and Schuster, 2013), Matchar gives us the why and how of urban gardening, urban chickens, urban canning, and–that’s right–urban knitting and sewing. According to Matchar, youngish women are rejecting high-flying careers to go “back to the land,” so long as that land is in a city. A movement or a fad? Listen to the interview and judge for yourself. All I know is that now that I’ve read Matchar’s book, I have new respect for my mom. She was way ahead of the curve on this one. The woman made all her own clothes. And not only that, she had a career, though not a very high-flying one. She “had it all” before “having it all” was deemed impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why are so many people drawn to cooking, crafts and lifestyles from a bygone era? How do Etsy, Pinterest and mommy blogs fuel new domesticity? Tune in as Cristen and Caroline interview with Emily Matchar on her book on the new domesticity movement Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
MaDCap DC skypes writer Emily Matchar as she just wakes up in Hong Kong and bothers her about the topic of "New Domesticity." Matchar is also writing a book about New Domesticity which is to be published by Simon and Schuster's Free Press in 2013.
MaDCap DC skypes writer Emily Matchar as she just wakes up in Hong Kong and bothers her about the topic of "New Domesticity." Matchar is also writing a book about New Domesticity which is to be published by Simon and Schuster's Free Press in 2013.
MaDCap DC had their first live music episode with Curtis Ostle and Jonathan Parker of the Ostle/Parker Quintet. We had a jazzy conversation about the music scene in Shanghai and what lies next for these extremely talented musicians. Also, we learn a bit about what not to bring on an airplane. Part 2 of this episode with writer Emily Matchar will be uploaded shortly.
MaDCap DC had their first live music episode with Curtis Ostle and Jonathan Parker of the Ostle/Parker Quintet. We had a jazzy conversation about the music scene in Shanghai and what lies next for these extremely talented musicians. Also, we learn a bit about what not to bring on an airplane. Part 2 of this episode with writer Emily Matchar will be uploaded shortly.