Our conversation this week is with Tema Stauffer - photographer, Associate Professor of Photography at East Tennesse State University, curator, writer, and child of Kalamazoo, MI (and North Carolina, technically). Her most recent work, Southern Fiction, explores settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers. (welcome back to our trusted friend, Eudora Welty!)  This episode will take you many places. Listen to us talk about: The power of just showing up somewhere. Moments of special feelings. The many paths of Southern Fiction. Finding essay writers & serendipity. Artistical influences. The church with no name. Tema's interest in the history of places. The Welty-Evers connection. Driving around and finding out. CITY 2000 police ride-alongs. Bonding with strangers through photography. Location: Tema's home in Asheville, NC Check out Tema's Website! Buy a copy of Southern Fiction & Upstate Visit current exhibition at ETSU's Reece Museum until March 1st Visit upcoming exhibition at MTSU's Baldwin Photo Gallery March 10th-April 13th Follow Tema on Instagram   Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore: Charles Baxter Xhenet Aliu Lauren Rhoades Case Cep Furious Hours by Casey Cep Honoree Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Eudora Welty House & Garden  One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty Cecilia Cornejo - Arte la Milpa Lanesboro, Minnesota St. Mane Theatre Humbird Rowan Oak - Home of William Faulkner Alice Walker & Eatonton, Georgia Flannery O'Connor & Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville, Georgia City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University Medgar Evers Home Haunted by a Ghost Town: The Lure of Rodney, Mississippi William Eggleston Port Gibson, Mississippi Fire Engulfs Abandoned North Front Street Building in Hudson Preserving a Cluster of Fishing Shacks From Hudson's 'Forgotten' Past The Black Church on PBS Nan Goldin Walker Evans Dorothea Lange William Christenberry Carson McCullers Truman Capote Where Is the Voice Coming From? by Eudora Welty CITY 2000 - a record of life in Chicago in the year 2000

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