Book Flight | Memoirs and Collections of Personal Essays (E84)
In today's episode, I am chatting with Katherine Snow Smith. Katherine is a Raleigh native and has lived throughout the south as a newspaper reporter, editor, daughter, sister, mother, wife, divorcee and friend. She’s worked at small town papers and business journals, but spent most of her career at the esteemed Tampa Bay Times. A few decades (no need to count them) after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism, she’s getting her master’s at her alma mater so she can teach on a college level. Katherine, who has three 20-something children, divides her time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and St. Petersburg, Florida. Her memoir, Stepping on the Blender & Other Times Life Gets Messy was publishing in November 2023.
This is such a fun episode, Katherine shared all about the writing of her book, including how funny life can be, but also the experience of sharing the raw and honest essays. She talks about the differences in writing as a reporter versus for personal essay. We chatted about how we can feel connected through reading, library tips with young children, as well as a fabulous gift idea for your friends! I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Happy listening!
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Show Notes
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Books and authors mentioned in the episode:
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
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Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
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