Podcasts about men we reaped

Jesmyn Ward, the two-time National Book Award winner, has returned with a new novel about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. Let Us Descend, an Oprah's Book Club pick, describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. In Let Us Descend (the title inspired by a line in Dante's Inferno) the protagonist Annis is sold by her father, a white slaveowner. In the face of unspeakable circumstances on her way south, Annis seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. She soon opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. The tale explores themes of family separation, belief, and the harsh history of chattel slavery in antebellum America. While Annis leads readers through the descent, Ward's work aims to be a story of rebirth and reclamation. Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and, most recently, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Her work has been featured in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 Time 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Buy the Book Let Us Descend: A Novel The Elliott Bay Book Company

Jesmyn Ward's novel, Salvage the Bones, is an intimate and compelling look at Hurricane Katrina and the American South. It won the National Book award in 2011. Following the success of Salvage the Bones, Ward released her memoir, Men We Reaped, which examines her experiences with racism, the absence of her father and the death of her younger brother. Her new novel, Let Us Descend, follows an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. *This interview originally aired on Sept. 28, 2014.

Two-time US National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward's latest novel Let Us Descend tackles the hellish reality of life as a chattel slave. Modelled on Dante's Inferno, and based on extensive historical research, the book details a gruelling journey teenager Annis makes from a North Carolina plantation to the slave markets of New Orleans. It's being hailed as an instant classic; announced this week as Oprah's latest book club pick. Jesmyn Ward is a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and a MacArthur Fellow. Her other works include novels Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, and a memoir Men We Reaped.

Jesmyn Ward is one of the great writers of our time. She's a two-time National Book Award winner and a MacArthur Genius grant recipient. She wrote Salvage The Bones, Men We Reaped, and Sing, Unburied, Sing. I wanted to talk to her about writing, how she does it, so we talk about her work—I ask her to read from her books and break down the choices she's making. A really powerful master class for anyone who loves writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: reading in the wrong format and new library discoveries Current Reads: books we blasted through and ones that surprised us on multiple levels Deep Dive: different types of readers - mood reading versus planned reading Book Presses: surprising books that get into your head As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your dishwasher detergent!) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week 2:08 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live ep.104 w/Catherine Ryan Howard 2:11 - Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes 3:03 - Fabled Bookshop 3:10 - The Harbor by Katrine Engberg 7:37 - Current Reads 8:07 - The Guide by Peter Heller (Meredith) 8:13 - The River by Peter Heller 9:27 - A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean 13:56 - Lightseekers by Femi Kayode (Kaytee) 18:07 - Parasite by Mira Grant (Meredith) 18:11 - Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant 21:00 - Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton 24:00 - Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (Kaytee) 25:06 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 25:12 - Season 1: Episode 9 25:15 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 27:47 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Meredith) 31:27 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 31:59 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino 32:04 - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire 36:26 - Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black (Kaytee) 38:09 - Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby 38:14 - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 38:19 - Gilded by Marilynne Robinson 39:41 - Deep Dive: Mood Reading vs Planned Reading 41:46 - Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black 46:09 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 49:43 - The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements 349:46 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth 49:50 - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 54:34  - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands 55:01 - The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones (Meredith) 57:45 - Vox by Christina Dalcher (Kaytee) Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

November is Memoir Month!!! Have you read a memoir yet? The LSMR Girlies have! Aliza read "Tastes Like War" by Grace M. Cho and Marissa read "Men We Reaped" by Jesmyn Ward. Both of these books were fantastic and absolutely devastating! Also, notice these authors are both women and POC. We would like to remind you to support POC authors! Read their memoirs and their stories and thank them for the courage they must have had to share these words. We admire women POC authors, and have absolute love and appreciation for them!

Author Bio:Jesmyn Ward is a novelist and professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds; Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award; Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award; and of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time. Ward has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Award. She currently resides in Mississippi. To Learn More:Visit us online at Freedom Reads and follow us on Twitter @million_book

Kala and Jenny meet again about a year after our previous conversation to chat about books we've read lately, from presidential memoirs to romance to books that haven't had enough attention. We tackle backlogs and bookstacks along the way.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 216: Eloquent and Elegant. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:  A Promised Land by Barack ObamaXeni by Rebekah WeatherspoonThe Rib King by Ladee HubbardTelephone by Percival EverettSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardOther mentions:Becoming by Michelle ObamaDreams from my Father by Barack ObamaHard Choices by Hillary Rodham ClintonWe Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi CoatesRafe: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah WeatherspoonThe Talented Ribkins by Ladee HubbardSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardMen We Reaped by Jesmyn WardThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha PhilyawLong Bright River by Liz MooreUntraceable by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisRelated episodes:Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira RamirezEpisode 143 - Reading the Pain with KalaEpisode 151 - The Stories They Tell with KarenEpisode 184 - Theme Night at Book Club with KalaEpisode 213 - Funicular Reads with BiancaStalk us online: Kala on TwitterJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterKala on FacebookKala's blog, Reader then Blogger Kala is @ReaderthenBlogger on InstagramJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

On this episode of Plume: A Writer's Companion podcast, Melanie & Jennifer dig into the infamous Harper's Letter; share a book review of Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward's memoir; chat about Stacey Abrams' new book; and discuss their current writing projects. They also chat with Suzanne Richardson, a talented writer who is working on a memoir about addiction, as well as putting together an anthology about Dungeons & Dragons. They discuss everything from writing and teaching writing during a pandemic to real life repercussions of writing memoir.LINKSHarper's LetterMen We Reaped by Jesmyn WardOur Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey AbramsThe Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah MangusoExcavation: A Memoir by Wendy C. OrtizSuzanne RichardsonHer websiteSuzanne on TwitterSubmit your writing about D & D to her anthology

This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

Please consider donating to Campaign Zero. Books mentioned: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward & The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Surprise...Laura got a job! Find out how and Laura's most helpful tips for networking/applying during this time. We also hear from Laura's guest: Alex Hemmer of Blumin Media which highlights helpful information for international students. Alex was also a career services guide at Boston University and provides helpful insight on how to stand out. Read the latest article from Blumin: I used to think Black Lives Matter was only for Americans – until I asked these questions. Find more at Blumin.media And follow @Bluminmedia

Today, we re-visit a discussion with two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward about her memoir Men We Reaped. In her memoir, Jesmyn attempts to understand the death of five young black men, including her beloved brother Joshua. But more broadly, her subject is what it means to be a black man in the south. Jesmyn uses her formidable literary skill to give voice and texture to poor, rural, black Mississippians struggling against poverty and racism in a world with no forgiveness. It's an important and beautifully-written work with much to teach us today. And, Jesmyn Ward is as clear-eyed and thoughtful in discussion as she is in her writing.

Growing up in rural Mississippi, one woman watches helplessly as five men close to her die over the span of 5 years. Through the pain and confusion, she sees clearly what facilitated the demise of each family member and friend — a system built on the foundations of racism and economic turmoil. She decides to tell their stories. Her writing is evidence that these living, loving bodies existed. Before covering this week's book, we're getting into a topic close to home — how to cope with grief. Feel that gaping hole in your stomach, the ache that just won't go away? It may be grief. We'll share with you what's helped us make it through some of the worse moments of our lives. Find Alexis and Kari online: Instagram — www.instagram.com/litsocietypod/; Twitter — twitter.com/litsocietypod; Facebook — www.facebook.com/LitSocietyPod/; and our website www.LitSocietyPod.com. Get in on the conversation by using #booksanddrama.

Today, we re-visit a discussion with two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward about her memoir Men We Reaped. In her memoir, Jesmyn attempts to understand the death of five young black men, including her beloved brother Joshua. But more broadly, her subject is what it means to be a black man in the south. Jesmyn uses her formidable literary skill to give voice and texture to poor, rural, black Mississippians struggling against poverty and racism in a world with no forgiveness. It’s an important and beautifully-written work with much to teach us today. And, Jesmyn Ward is as clear-eyed and thoughtful in discussion as she is in her writing.

Today, we re-visit a discussion with two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward about her memoir Men We Reaped. In her memoir, Jesmyn attempts to understand the death of five young black men, including her beloved brother Joshua. But more broadly, her subject is what it means to be a black man in the south. Jesmyn uses her formidable literary skill to give voice and texture to poor, rural, black Mississippians struggling against poverty and racism in a world with no forgiveness. It’s an important and beautifully-written work with much to teach us today. And, Jesmyn Ward is as clear-eyed and thoughtful in discussion as she is in her writing.

Today, we re-visit a discussion with two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward about her memoir Men We Reaped. In her memoir, Jesmyn attempts to understand the death of five young black men, including her beloved brother Joshua. But more broadly, her subject is what it means to be a black man in the south. Jesmyn uses her formidable literary skill to give voice and texture to poor, rural, black Mississippians struggling against poverty and racism in a world with no forgiveness. It’s an important and beautifully-written work with much to teach us today. And, Jesmyn Ward is as clear-eyed and thoughtful in discussion as she is in her writing.

In Episode 34, Sara Hildreth of Fiction Matters (also a high school English teacher at an all-girls school) talks about how she tries to encourage her students to love what they're reading, how she feels about classic and contemporary literature in the classroom, and…of course, shares her book recommendations! This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Sara’s passion of helping her students read books they’re actually going to love How bookstagram pushed her to think about how she could get her students to enjoy reading outside of school. How much say Sara has in the books she includes on her curriculum. The volume breakdown of classics vs. contemporary literature she teaches in her classes and whether she’s happy with that number. How Sara feels about the idea that there are certain books every single student needs to read. Sara’s favorite contemporary books that she teaches. Contemporary books Sarah would love to teach, but can’t for whatever reason. Classics that Sara thinks should always be taught in classrooms. Classics Sara thinks should be eliminated from school curricula. Whether Sara and I actually did our high school reading. Sara’s Book Recommendations Two OLD Books She Loves Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Buy from Amazon [22:46] Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward | Buy from Amazon [24:56] Two NEW Books She Loves Naamahby Sarah Blake | Buy from Amazon [28:55] Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino | Buy from Amazon [31:31] One Book She DIDN’T Love The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware | Buy from Amazon [33:49] One NEW RELEASE She’s Excited About In the Dream Houseby Carmen Maria Machado (Release Date: November 5, 2019) | Buy from Amazon [36:20] Other Books Mentioned In Cold Blood by Truman Capote | Buy from Amazon [8:36] To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Buy from Amazon [12:23] The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | Buy from Amazon [12:23] Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | Buy from Amazon [12:23] Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:35] My Atonia by Willa Cather | Buy from Amazon [13:47] The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore | Buy from Amazon [14:16] Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Buy from Amazon [15:07] Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [15:12] Circe by Madeline Miller (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [15:34] The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [16:43] Beartown by Fredrik Backman (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [17:15] Beloved by Toni Morrison | Buy from Amazon [17:32] The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison | Buy from Amazon [18:49] Sula by Toni Morrison | Buy from Amazon [18:49] The Great Gatsby by Toni Morrison | Buy from Amazon [19:33] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte | Buy from Amazon [20:26] Pride & Prejudiceby Jane Austen | Buy from Amazon [20:26] Beowulf by Anonymous | Buy from Amazon [20:50] The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Buy from Amazon [20:50] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Buy from Amazon [20:50] The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy from Amazon [21:33] 1984 by George Orwell | Buy from Amazon [21:59] Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [26:30] Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward | Buy from Amazon [28:47] Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood | Buy from Amazon [30:06] In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware | Buy from Amazon [34:04] The Lying Game by Ruth Ware | Buy from Amazon [34:12] Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Buy from Amazon [35:20] The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware | Buy from Amazon [36:01] Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado | Buy from Amazon [36:27] A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[36:52] The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Buy from Amazon [38:57] Other Links Sara’s “How to Make a Reader” series About Sara Blog | Instagram  Sara is the bookstagrammer and blogger behind @fictionmatters. She teaches high school English at an all-girls school and lives in Denver with her husband and their puppy, Mr. Bingley. Support the Podcast Support on Patreon - When you support the podcast on Patreon for $5/month, get bonus podcast episodes and other goodies! Share - If you like the podcast, I’d love for you to share it with your reader friends…in real life and on social media (there’s easy share buttons at the bottom of this post!). Subscribe...wherever you listen to podcasts, so new episodes will appear in your feed as soon as they’re released. Rate and Review - Search for “Sarah’s Book Shelves” in Apple Podcasts…or wherever you listen to podcasts!

In Conversation with Kalela Williams, Director of Neighborhood Enrichment Programming A ''hypnotic'' novelist whose ease with vernacular puts her ''in fellowship with such forebears as Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner'' (The New Yorker), Jesmyn Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for Salvage the Bones, the story of a pregnant teenager and her Mississippi family in the days surrounding Hurricane Katrina. Her elegiac 2013 memoir Men We Reaped was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Last year she won a stunning second National Book Award for Sing, Unburied, Sing, a 21st-century road novel about the difficulty of family bonds and the ugly underside of the American story. *Spoiler alert: the first question during the Q&A (minute 42:00) reveals a critical event in the book. Watch the video here. (recorded 5/9/2018)

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the first female author to win two National Book Awards for Fiction, for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones(2011). She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time, the author of the memoir Men We Reaped and the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jesmyn Ward - author of Sing, Unburied Sing talks to Christopher Harding about editing a collection of essays called The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race and about the depictions of family life and poverty and the influence of Greek drama on her prize winning novels. Sarah Churchwell traces the history of the use and meaning of the phrases 'the American Dream' and 'America First'. John Edgar Wideman explains what he was seeking to do by blurring fact and fiction in his new short story collection American Histories. Jesmyn Ward's novels include Salvage the Bones, Where the Line Bleeds and Sing, Unburied Sing - and a memoir called Men We Reaped. She has received a MacArthur Genius Grant and won two National Book Awards for Fiction. She has edited a collection of Essays called The Fire This Time which takes its inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time.Professor Sarah Churchwell is the author of books including Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby and Behold America: A History of America First and the American DreamJohn Edgar Wideman's work includes the novels The Cattle Killing and Philadelphia Fire and the memoir Brothers and Keepers. His new collection of short stories - American Histories - weaves real characters including Frederick Douglass and Jean-Michel Basquiat into imaginary narratives.Producer: Torquil MacLeod

On this week of The Stacks, PhD candidate Sarah Fong is back, and we're talking about Jesmyn Ward's memoir, Men We Reaped.    Our conversation dives into the deaths of five Black men in Ward's life, and what these deaths say about the greater experience of Black people in America. We discuss substance abuse, mental health, grief, systemic racism and a lot more.   There are spoilers in this episode, so if you've yet to read the book proceed with caution.   Here are links to the things we mentioned this week: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" (Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda) "Black-ish" (ABC, S4. E16) Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Lee Daniels Epigraph Upcoming The Stacks Book Club Picks for May   Connect with The Stacks: iTunes| Website| Instagram| Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads |Traci's Instagram Connect with Sarah: Instagram Thank you to this week's sponsor Audible. To get your FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial go to audibletrial.com/thestacks. To contribute to The Stacks, join The Stacks Pack, and get exclusive perks, check out our Patreon page. We are beyond grateful for anything you're able to give to support the production of this show. If you prefer to do a one time contribution go to paypal.me/thestackspod. The Stacks participates in affiliate programs in which we receive a small commission when products are purchased through some links on this website. This does not effect my opinions on books and products. For more information click here.   

Michael Farris Smith and James figured out pretty early on in the conversation that they were cut from the same cloth. Michael is the author of THE HANDS OF STRANGERS, RIVERS, and his latest novel, DESPERATION ROAD, is out now. He and James discuss following the story, not thinking too hard, realizing something is boring, and how the rise and fall of music can serve as a model for fiction. Then, Steve Iwanski, manager of Turnrow Book Co., talks about his store and recommends books.   - Michael Farris Smith: https://michaelfarrissmith.com/ Michael and James discuss:  THE MAID'S VERSION by Daniel Woodrell The Southern Festival of the Book Square Books  Lemuria Books  Ann Patchett  Newtonville Books Brookline Booksmith  Porter Square Books Mississippi Book Festival  Somerset Review  CLMP  Manhattan Public Library  The Pushcart Prize  The Center for Writers at Ole Miss  Publisher's Weekly  Carolina Wren Press Hannah Tinti  One Story  Frederick Barthelme  Steven Barthelme  The New Yorker  Jason Isbell  "Fire Away" by Chris Stapleton Steve Earle  "Breaker's Roar" by Sturgill Simpson  "You Want it Darker" by Leonard Cohen - Turnrow Book Co: http://turnrowbooks.com/ James and Steve Discuss: COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett Lady Gaga Jamie Kornegay  FURIOUS COOL: RICHARD PRYOR AND THE WORLD THAT MADE HIM by David Henry and Joe Henry The Alabama Booksmith Wiley Cash  William Faulkner  Eudora Welty  THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by Richard Flanagan  The Greenwood Shakespeare Project DESPERATION ROAD by Michael Farris Smith  THE STRAYS by Emily Bitto  THE HISTORY OF WOLVES by Emily Fridlund THE MIDNIGHT COOL by Lydia Peele  Ketch Secor Old Crow Medicine Show  THE WORLD UNDONE by GJ Meyer  THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by Douglas Preston  THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann  ICE GHOSTS by Paul Watson  THE WORLD TO COME by Jim Shepard  LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders  SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward  MEN WE REAPED by Jesmyn Ward  SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

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In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Author Jesmyn Ward stops by the Project Room to have a conversation about her memoir "Men We Reaped"

Ward's memoir recounts the deaths of five young black men in her hometown of DeLisle, Mississippi, including the car accident that killed her younger brother. We talk about de facto segregation in the American South, writing about family members, and amateur sociology. We also bring back our Sticks and Stones segment, read a couple more donor rejections, and try to figure out what happens in the 4th dimension.

Jesmyn Ward is the guest. She was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for her novel, Salvage the Bones, and her new memoir, Men We Reaped, is now available from Bloomsbury. The New York Times Book Review raves "[Ward] chronicles our American story in language that is raw, beautiful and dangerous… [Her] singular voice and her full embrace of her anger and sorrow set this work apart from those that have trodden similar ground… With loving and vivid recollection, she returns flesh to the bones of statistics and slows her ghosts to live again… [It’s a] complicated and courageous testimony." And The Los Angeles Times calls it "Heart-wrenching… A brilliant book about beauty and death… at once a coming-of-age story and a kind of mourning song… filled [with] intimate and familial moments, each described with the passion and precision of the polished novelist Ward has become… Ward is one of those rare writers who’s traveled across America’s deepening class rift with her sense of truth intact. What she gives back to her community is the hurtful honesty of the best literary art." Monologue topics: awards, Alice Munro, The Nobel Prize, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, LSD, Bret Easton Ellis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Men We Reaped: In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life—to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth—and it took her breath away. Special Guest: Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford, from 2008-2010, she has been named the 2010-11 Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds, was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection and a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient. Ward's second novel, Salvage the Bones, won the 2011 National Book Award.