S5 Ep. 24: Live from Unbound: Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri

Journalist and biographer Steve Paul and writer and Washington University professor Henry Schvey join host Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, to discuss their books on novelist Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams, respectively. Each of the old masters was from Missouri—Connell from Kansas City and Williams from St. Louis. Paul and Schvey talk about how, though neither man was happy about his city of origin, those locations factored importantly into their work. Finally, they take questions from the live audience at Unbound. 

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected Readings:

Steve Paul

• Hemingway at Eighteen
• Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell

Henry Schvey

• Blue Song

Others

• Tennessee Williams
• Ernest Hemingway
• Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell
• Mr. Bridge, Connell
• The Patriot, Connell
• Son of the Morningstar, Connell
• The Diary of a Rapist, Connell
• The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams
• Night of the Iguana, Williams
• Anne Lamott
• Paris Review
• Max Steele
• The New Republic
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (film)
• Wallace Stegner

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