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How John Grisham turned his passion for justice into bestselling legal thrillers
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How John Grisham turned his passion for justice into bestselling legal thrillers
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53 minutes
Released:
Oct 22, 2023
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Podcast episode
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John Grisham's novel The Reckoning re-imagines a story the author encountered more than 30 years ago about a murder in small-town Mississippi. It centres on Pete, a cotton farmer returning from the Second World War, and the mystery surrounding his motive for killing the local pastor. *This interview originally aired Mar. 24, 2019.
Released:
Oct 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
Jesmyn Ward on exploring the stories of America's South: Jesmyn Ward's novel, Salvage the Bones, is an intimate and compelling look at Hurricane Katrina and the American South. It won the National Book award in 2011. Following the success of Salvage the Bones, Ward released her memoir, Men We Reaped, which examines her experiences with racism, the absence of her father and the death of her younger brother. Her new novel, Let Us Descend, follows an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. *This interview originally aired on Sept. 28, 2014. by Writers and Company