In Conversation with Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Chea Parton.

This conversation is a mix of discussing the work of Nora Shalaway Carpenter and the issue of rurality in fiction and in scholarship.
We discuss: 1st novels vs 2nd novels, Southern vs Rural, Staying or leaving a rural setting for work or school, Lee Smith, Jesse Stuart, Cormac McCarthy, the influence of Common Core on literature Selection, and few other things.
We also discuss Nora's fiction -- Fault Lines and The Edge of Anything and her two edited anthologies -- Rural Voices and Ab(solutely) Normal.