Let me talk to you about the trauma of academia. LOL I was knee-deep in the research phase for the Dolly essay. I wanted to talk to some of the authors I was reading. One day, a friend said, "you could...email them." And I was like:
Had never occurred to me. I'm so special. Some of that reading, by the way:
I have wanted an excuse to talk to @CharlesLHughes2 for a good long while. I had one big question for him: why didn't Dolly have a "soul" phase? That led to some interesting insights that I will be talking about more in the future.

uncpress.org/book/978146963…
I talked with @tmcphers about why she left the South and why I came back. Along the way, we reckoned with white people's push-and-pull with Dolly.

dukeupress.edu/reconstructing…
I have said many times (to misquote Nikki Giovanni) that I hope @annehelen never has cause to write about me. Her celebrity profiles are always a treat...if you aren't the celebrity.

buzzfeed.com/annehelenpeter…
I will use any excuse to talk with @RissiPalmer. She has been on @HearToSlay and was gracious enough to chop it up with me for A LONG TIME about Dolly and race and gender and growing up and being That Girl. Love her.

colormecountry.com
On several levels, @MonicaCMiller book on the work that being an ugly woman does in southern literature rocked my little world. Read it twice.

lsupress.org/books/detail/b…
(Several books aren't in that stack because I read them on my kindle. I will put the full reading list up on essaying soon.)

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