Season 8, Episode 163 Nearly Lost Stories with guest Jayne Moore Waldrop
Our guest this week, Jayne Moore Waldrop traded legal briefs of a law practice for her writing journals in an MFA program. Her first book, Drowned Town, is a novel in linked stories about the families who lost their homes in the 1960s when President Kennedy announced the creation of Land Between the Lakes, a national recreation area that resulted from damning several rivers and taking land from residents through eminent domain. Jayne explores what the meaning of home becomes when one’s home is now underwater. Her book was selected as one of the best southern books of 2021 by the Southern Review of Books.
Jayne has changed gears once again, this time to tell a picture book story for children titled A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson about one of the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance, native Kentuckian Ellis Wilson, who won two Guggenheim Fellowships but has been virtually unknown in his home state. Jayne teamed up with acclaimed Nashville artist Michael McBride to create a book that helps give Wilson his due but also inspire children to follow their dreams.
You can find Jayne on her website www.jaynemoorewaldrop.com and social media on Instagram @jaynemoorewaldrop and FB Jayne Moore Waldrop, Author.
Books Mentioned In This Episode:
1- Drowned Town by Jayne Moore Waldrop
2- A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson by Jayne Moore Waldrop and illustrated by Michael McBride
3- The Rabbit Hutch. by Tess Gunty
4- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
5- These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
6- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
7- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
8- Lark Ascending by Silas House
9- Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr
10- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Films mentioned--
1- So Much to Paint (A documentary on the work of Ellis Wilson
education.ket.org/resources/ellis-…lson-much-paint/
Nonprofit mentioned:
International Book Project - intlbookproject.org/