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Marginalia: Jesmyn Ward

Beowulf Sheehan

If Jesmyn Ward’s name sounds familiar, it might be because she won the National Book Award for fiction in 2011 for Salvage the Bones.

Or it might be because she was just named a 2017 MacArthur fellow, which means she was awarded a genius grant.

Or it could be because of her new book, Sing, Unburied, Sing, which has already been named a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal, and one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 books of 2017.

I spoke with Jesmyn Ward recently about her new book and all of her accolades. Here’s our conversation:

And if you listened to the commentary on-air, this is what you heard:

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Jesmyn Ward | Marginalia, the commentary

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That was Jesmyn Ward, author of the book Sing, Unburied, Sing which was published by Scribner. 

Marginalia was produced at KMUW Wichita.

Editor: Lu Anne Stephens
Engineer: Jon Cyphers
Producer: Beth Golay

Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia and co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast. You can find her on Wichita Transit in conversation with other riders for En Route, a monthly segment on KMUW's weekly news program The Range.