River Jordan is a southerner with a global perspective. She began her writing career as a playwright and spent over ten years with the Loblolly Theatre group, where her original works were produced, including Mama Jewels: Tales from Mullet Creek, Soul, Rhythm and Blues, and Virga.
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The Library Fairy lands on BACKSTORY - May, 3, 2008 - 4-6 CST Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Oh Joy! Oh what great pleasure my wordy, literary soul receives when I meet someone like Cindy Conway who is, quite literally, The Library Fairy. Passion makes perfect presence I always say and Ms. Conway has created a stellar alter-ego right up there with our other FAV librarian - BATGIRL.  The Library Fairy's new book for children was just unveiled at the LA Times Festival of Books and she's flying in to talk books, writing, storytelling, and about spreading the magic of literary dust everywhere she goes. She's an original and she's on Backstory this week along with some new unexpected poems, a surprise visit by a green cricket via the word, and whole lot of great music by Bob Seiger, U2, The Black Crows, Dean Martin, George Jones - Well, you know the deal - a never ending mix of creative, and inspiring word and song.  More Great Music, Great Stories, and Great Company on Backstory this week. TUNE in via Nashville at 98.9fm, Davidson County Comcast SAP Channel 10 and via the web large and live at http://www.radiofreenashville.org/ - 4-6 CST Labels: Children's books, Libraries, music, People Reading, radio
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KRISTIN OHLSON On BACKSTORY, Saturday April 26th - 4-6pmCST Monday, April 21, 2008
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The Best of BACKSTORY - April 19, 2008 Friday, April 18, 2008
Hello listeners and friends. This Saturday, should you be in the Nashville area, please join me along with Darnell Arnolt and Robert Hicks on a panel at the Nashville Downtown Library at 2:00 Central time to talk about "The Things I love About the South". That being food, family, and religion in Southern writing. They tell me there will be a plethora of pie and coffee and fruit tea. Do come.
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MISSISSIPPI SISSY 0n BACKSTORY, Saturday- April 12, 2008 Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Hello Backstory Fans and Friends. If you happen to be driving around Nashville and find yourself near the Loveless Cafe on Saturday afternoon, well just pull the car over right there in the parking lot, open up the sunroof and enjoy a few hours of a great ecletic mix of songs and stories on BACKSTORY with River Jordan at 98.9fm Nashville, or you can put your feet up inside the house and just listen via the world wide web at This weeks Company is that Mississippi Sissy, author and journalist Kevin Sessums. Nevermind the rave reviews and comments of accomplished writers - okay - mind them since here is just one for you to chew on: "Mississippi Sissy is a book I've been waiting for most of my life, though I didn’t fully understand that fact until I read the book. We have, as it turns out, been sorely missing a book by a writer who is equally at home with Flannery O'Connor and Jacqueline Susann; who understands that Eudora Welty and Johnny Weissmuller are not only members of the same species but are intricately related; whose wit and insight are up to the highs, lows, and in-betweens that compose life as we know it. Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure." — Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours The fact is, you’ll greatly enjoy Kevin's ability to pull up a chair just like you are in the same room and look across the space that rests between you and tell a story. And that’s what Backstory is about. Storytelling, writing, living. Kevin is currently a contributing editor at Allure magazine after spending fourteen years at Vanity Fair in that same capacity. Before joining Vanity Fair, he was executive editor for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. His work has also appeared in Elle, Travel + Leisure, Playboy, POZ, Out, and Show People magazines. So more Great Music, Great Stories, And Great Company this Saturday at 98.9fm Nashville at Radio Free Nashville 4-6CST Labels: Backstory, Katrina, Kevin Sessums, Mississippi
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Ron Hogan Live on BACKSTORY, Saturday, 5, 2008 Friday, April 4, 2008
Okay, so this past Sunday I grab a NY Times Sunday edition and dig in for some off the clock reading time. Imagine my no big surprise when I'm reading a major ariticle about how many blogs are now turning into lucrative book contracts and they are interviewing Ron Hogan, man on the publishing beat, to give his 3 cents take on the subject.When I first met Ron we were in another state somewhere at an outdoor party for authors attending and presenting at that years festival. Right now, I'm pretty certain it was Virginia. Then I began to realize when Ron popped up a year later in Texas at the Pulwood Queens Girlfriend Getaway Weekend that he really was a man on a mission and was not only covering the publishing/writing business, he was literally staying in the thick of it. (Now if only I had time to dig up those pictures of Ron at the Hollywood Hairball from last year!) So don't miss it this Saturday as Ron Hogan puts his feet up to chat awhile and be Great Company on Backstory. He's gonna tell us about how he created Beatrice.com in 1995, making it one of the oldest continuously running literary websites on the Internet. He also writes about the business side of publishing at GalleyCat. He speaks frequently at book festivals and industry conferences, to both aspiring and published authors, about the bookblog phenomenon and other transformative trends in book publishing. Newspapers and magazines also call upon him to discuss such issues:
He is the author of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane, a visual tribute to '70s Hollywood Publishers Weekly called "one of the year's most fun" coffee table books when it was published in 2005. He also contributed to the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning. He has published an e-book of his "translation" of the Tao Te Ching that is downloaded by more than 25,000 readers a year in various formats. More Great Music, Great Stories, and Great Company on Backstory this Saturday! Tune in at 98.9fm in Nashville, Comcast SAP Channel 10 in Davidson County or at www.radiofreenashville.org 4-6CST Labels: Backstory, NY Times, Ron Hogan, writing
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