Tk With James Scott

Though it's long since faded, James confesses his grad school-era jealousy of Matt. Once they clear that up, they discuss how Matt arrived at his voice and how he learned to write his marvelous sentences. They celebrate writing as work and the spaces in their lives that stories occupy. Then, Stephanie Appell from Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, discusses the history of YA books and makes some recommendations.    Matt and James Discuss:  Aimee Bender  Kurt Vonnegut  Amy Hempel  Raymond Carver  JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson REEL by Tobias Carroll  "The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Gary Lutz   "The Geography of Sentences" by Emily Brisse  ARTFUL SENTENCES: SYNTAX AS STYLE by Virginia Tufte Gordon Lish Sam Lipsyte Christine Schutt Brian Evenson Michael Kimball Diane Williams "Human Behavior" by Bjork, dir by Michel Gondry  Kate Bernheimer  Joyelle McSweeney  Laird Hunt  FENCE  "Where's Iago?" by Susan Neville  Laura van den Berg    Stephanie and James Discuss:   LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott  THE BEA