A Struggle Against Dull
Rick Bragg will kick off the Southern Lit Alliance’s Distinguished Lectures series at 5 p.m. tonight, January 21, 2016, with a reading from My Southern Journey. The event, which includes a general-admission reading and a benefit dinner, will be held at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Chattanooga. In today’s podcast, which was recorded on November 7, 2014, Bragg talks with Chapter 16’s Stephen Usery about his biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, why Southern storytellers are drawn to the Gothic, and how, for a writer, “everything is a struggle against dull.” It’s also probably your only chance to hear Rick Bragg sing a few lines from “I’m Walking the Floor Over You.”
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Stephen Usery is the producer of Book Talk, an author-interview program that airs daily on WYPL FM 89.3 and is sponsored by the Memphis Public Library. Usery also produces Mysterypod, an independent podcast focused on mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels. He lives in Memphis.
