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Title & Link
Best-Selling Novelist Jesmyn Ward on Life in Mississippi, Love Through Grief, and Her New Novel | Vanity Fair
Publish Date
November 14, 2023
Interviewees
Jesmyn Ward
Interviewers
Leah Faye Cooper
Publisher
Vanity Fair
Topics
American domestic slave trade
Annis's story
Facing grief
Grief
Historical fiction
History of New Orleans
Let Us Descend
Life in Mississippi
new novel
Personal life struggles
Relationship with the supernatural
Slavery
Success and challenges in writing
writing process
People Mentioned
Brandon R. Miller
Coates
Joshua
Works Mentioned
Let Us Descend
Men We Reaped
Salvage the Bones
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Slavery’s Exiles
Slavery’s Metropolis
Soul by Soul
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
The Half Has Never Been Told
The Underground Railroad
The Water Dancer
Where the Line Bleeds
Places Mentioned
DeLisle
Mississippi
New Orleans
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