177 Sherwood Anderson (with Alyson Hagy)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Arts, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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One hundred years ago, a collection of short stories by a little-known author from Ohio burst onto the literary scene, causing a minor scandal for their sexual frankness. In the years since, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919) became more famous for its insightful portrayal of a town filled with friendly but solitary individuals, who wrestle with questions of love and lust, art and ambition, deep frustrations and the desire for spiritual uplift. How well have these stories held up? And how well do they speak to us today? We'll talk with Alyson Hagy, author of the new novel Scribe, about this often overlooked American masterpiece - and we'll see how it's informed her own writing career. SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) grew up in a small town in Ohio before leaving in a state of desperation for Chicago and a literary career. His novels and short stories were often cited by the next generation of American writers (Wolfe, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald) as helping them to develop their own literary voice. ALYSON HAGY was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scribe and Boleto. She lives in Laramie, Wyoming. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:09.0	One of the things I love about stories is how much they slip and slide and break apart and come back together,
0:20.7	soldered together in strange new shapes from teller to teller in generation to generation.
0:26.0	There's also a loss in that and there's some of the contradictions of appropriation.
0:32.0	I think I poured all of those things into the bottle when I was working
0:35.6	and tried to see what what kind of grew might be made from it because I just think that we tell each other stories in the end to kind of
0:45.6	save ourselves as a culture and knit ourselves back together. And that's on the smallest
0:51.6	level of family jack on the largest level of nation.
0:57.0	We constantly are testing one another with the stories we tell in ways that are good and bad and inviting one another
1:04.6	to join in whether it's a moment of laughter or a moment of real you know
1:10.3	impassioned meaning or faith.
1:15.0	Mm.
1:16.0	That was Allison Hagee, author of several works of fiction, talking about her new novel
1:27.8	scribe, the book that is taking the literary world by dystopian storm.
1:33.9	Allison joins us today to talk about her childhood
1:36.4	in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
1:38.7	her journey to become a writer,
1:40.8	and her love for one of America's most often overlooked literary
1:44.9	masterpieces, the oddly compelling short stories in Sherwood
1:49.5	Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. We'll have all that and more today on the history of literature. Okay, everyone. Hello, how are you? I'm Jack Wilson. Welcome to the podcast.
2:17.0	I am fresh off a Burns supper. What a treat that was. I was a little bit skeptical at first, I have to say, I worried that would it,
2:27.0	I worried, sorry, I worried that it would be, what's the right word, I'm a literature fan as you know, but would
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