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Narrative Edge from Georgia Public Broadcasting highlights books with Georgia connections. Hosted by two of your favorite public radio book nerds who also happen to be your hosts of All Things Considered on GPB radio, Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Kathryn Stockett on The Calamity Club, The Help, and Writing Mississippi (opens the original)
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Peter Biello sits down with The Help author Kathryn Stockett to discuss her new novel, The Calamity Club , a Depression era story set in Mississippi. Stockett talks about the historical research that transformed the novel, the friendships at its center, her writing process, and how the praise and criticism surrounding The Help shaped her return to fiction.
A Funeral, a Time Loop, and a Georgia Island: Exploring Paige Harbison’s Destination Funeral (opens the original)
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What happens when four estranged people gather for a funeral on a fictional Georgia island and discover that Saturday keeps repeating? This episode explores Paige Harbison’s Destination Funeral , a magical realism novel that uses a Groundhog Day-style time loop to examine grief, friendship, family conflict, forgiveness, and the bonds that survive years apart.
How Lillian Smith Challenged Segregation Through Writing, Education, and Activism (opens the original)
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Historian Keri Leigh Merritt joins the conversation around An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America , her biography of Georgia writer and civil rights advocate Lillian Smith. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya explore Smith’s relationship with Paula Snelling, her work at Laurel Falls Camp, the literary magazine South Today , and books including Strange Fruit and Killers of the Dream .
Broken Houses by Chelsea Rathburn: How Poetry Rebuilds the Meaning of Home (opens the original)
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Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores family history, financial instability, and the emotional meaning of home in her poetry collection, Broken Houses . Peter and Orlando consider how Rathburn transforms childhood memories, vanished buildings, and complicated family relationships into intimate narrative poems that reveal what our homes continue to hold long after we leave them.
K.W. Oxnard Explores Medicine and Mortality in The Leg in Question (opens the original)
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The Leg in Question is the debut short story collection by Savannah writer K.W. Oxnard. Peter and Orlando discuss stories about HIV and AIDS, an apparently healthy leg a patient wants amputated, a grieving dog, and a Savannah morgue worker, while considering how Oxnard uses compressed scenes and unexpected endings to examine medicine, mortality, and human connection. Oxnard also reflects on the writers who shaped her work and on how the COVID era intensified her fascination with the body.
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