The Rooted Podcast is an extension of our online magazine, where we share unfiltered stories of place from the people who call Mississippi home. Every month, we share conversations from our Rooted Book Club, a celebration of Southern writers and readers. <br/><br/><a href="https://rooted.substack.com/s/podcast?utm_medium=podcast">rooted.substack.com</a>
Rooted
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The Rooted Podcast is an extension of our online magazine, where we share unfiltered stories of place from the people who call Mississippi home. Every month, we share conversations from our Rooted Book Club, a celebration of Southern writers and readers. <br/><br/><a href="https://rooted.substack.com/s/podcast?utm_medium=podcast">rooted.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
May 30, 2026
Ellen Morris Prewitt Wrote a Wild Mississippi Ride Set in New Orleans
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://rooted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">rooted.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>Ellen Morris Prewitt—along with Etoile, the protagonist of <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781956615623">When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women</a>—counts herself in the long lineage of Mississippians who find creative energy and freedom in New Orleans. During her twenty years in Jackson, Ellen would often escape to New Orleans for the weekend. “It took me moving away from Jackson to see how much Jackson was influenced by New Orleans,” Ellen shared near the end of our book club conversation. “You know, you get shrimp remoulade there. You order a po’ boy and it is on the right kind of bread. Etoile talks about that whole part of the United States collapsing into New Orleans. And I think there’s that double layer of folks who are bringing Mississippi over to New Orleans with them.”</p><p>When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women glides between Mississippi and New Orleans with delightful ease, and that osmosis felt equally present in our Bottom Reader Book Club conversation with Ellen Morris Prewitt. We covered a lot of ground—from Ellen’s publishing journey, to her writing process, to her own Mississippi grannies that serve as the inspiration for Etoile’s time-traveling grannies in the book. This book—and this conversation—is going to make you want to start planning your next visit to the Big Easy.</p><p><strong>You can listen to these book club recordings in the Substack app, in your web browser, or on </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/558Lsln48WOPkiasgmWxSX?si=8eb654c3a7914974"><strong>Spotify</strong></a><strong> </strong>. Subscribe to Rooted on Spotify to get notifications when new episodes are released. Recorded book club conversations are only available to paid subscribers, but the live book club sessions will continue to be free and open to all readers.</p><p><strong>Read ahead! We’ve got some great book club discussions on the horizon.</strong></p><p><strong>June 30 - </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781668051948"><strong>The Seven Daughters of Dupree</strong></a><strong> by Nikesha Elise Williams</strong> with guest host <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/rooted/p/mississippi-native-exodus-brownlow?r=1tztl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Exodus Brownlow</a></p><p><strong>July 15 - </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781324117407"><strong>The Irish Goodbye</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong>by </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/rooted/p/mississippi-transplant-beth-ann-fennelly?r=1tztl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"><strong>Beth Ann Fennelly</strong></a> with guest host <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/rooted/p/mississippi-native-catherine-simone?r=1tztl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Catherine Simone Gray</a></p><p><strong>August 25 -</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9780593239803"><strong> </strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9780593239803"><strong>America, U.S.A.</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong>by Eddie Glaude</strong> with guest host <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/rooted/p/mississippi-filmmaker-talamieka-brice?r=1tztl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Talamieka Brice</a></p>
May 8, 2026
Joesph Patri Brown Wants to Remember the People that Mississippi Has Executed and Exonerated
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://rooted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">rooted.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>Our April Bottom Reader Book Club was truly a one-of-a-kind experience. Instead of our usual livestream, we needed to accommodate the tech needs of our featured writer Joesph Patri Brown, who is incarcerated on Parchman’s death row. Through a highly technical set-up of propped cardboard boxes in my co-facilitator Dr. Alison Turner’s office, we were able to bring Joesph in for a Zoom session to discuss his powerful and structure-defying memoir <a target="_blank" href="https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/the-image-they-had-painted/">The Image They Had Painted</a>.</p><p>This was a deeply impactful discussion for all involved, not least of all for Joesph, who grew up in Natchez and has expressed his desire for his story to reach fellow Mississippians directly. We kicked off the conversation by hearing how Joesph and Alison, Joesph’s editor, created the book’s dual dedications. The book can be read in either direction—on one side, it is dedicated to those exonerated, on the other, those executed. Throughout his thirty-four years on death row, Joesph has maintained his innocence, and worked to overturn his conviction. During those decades he has known many men who have been executed and a much smaller number who have been exonerated.</p><p>While this discussion had heavy moments, there was also plenty of lightness and laughter. As Joesph reminded Alison and me multiple times while preparing for the book club: Just have fun. We had a great time celebrating Joesph and The Image They Had Painted. I hope you, too, enjoy the recording of this conversation.</p><p><strong>You can listen to these book club recordings in the Substack app, in your web browser, or on </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/558Lsln48WOPkiasgmWxSX?si=8eb654c3a7914974"><strong>Spotify</strong></a> Subscribe to Rooted on Spotify to get notifications when new episodes are released. Recorded book club conversations are only available to paid subscribers, but the live book club sessions will continue to be free and open to all readers.</p><p>Read along with the Bottom Readers!</p><p><strong>May 27 </strong>- <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781956615623"><strong>When We Were Murderous, Time-Traveling Women</strong></a><strong> </strong>with Ellen Morris Prewitt</p><p><strong>June 30 - </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781668051948"><strong>The Seven Daughters of Dupree</strong></a><strong> by Nikesha Elise Williams</strong> with guest host Exodus Brownlow</p><p><strong>July 15 - </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781324117407"><strong>The Irish Goodbye</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong>by Beth Ann Fennelly</strong> with guest host Catherine Simone Gray</p><p><strong>August 25 -</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9780593239803"><strong> </strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9780593239803"><strong>America, U.S.A.</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong>by Eddie Glaude</strong> with guest host Talamieka Brice</p>
April 4, 2026
Catherine Pierce Didn't Write a "Cutesy Book" About Motherhood
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://rooted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">rooted.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>Since I’ve started doing the Bottom Reader Book Club livestreams at home, I’m always aware of the possibility that my four-year-old could go rogue during her bedtime routine and come busting into the room where I’m recording, ready to take center stage among the talking heads on screen. This week, I took comfort in the fact that should this situation occur, my fellow book club conversation partners would absolutely understand (spoiler alert: there were no bedtime breakouts! Dad for the win.). Not only are Katie Pierce and <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/rooted/p/mississippi-native-catherine-simone?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Catherine Simone Gray</a> both mothers, but they find creative inspiration in both the beauty and exhaustion of motherhood. Katie Pierce’s new memoir, <a target="_blank" href="https://rooted.substack.com/p/book-club-foxes-for-everybody-by#:~:text=Order%20Foxes%20for%20Everybody">Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early Motherhood</a>, is a profound study of the marvels of parenthood that coexist alongside sleep deprivation and the chaos of getting out the door on a school morning.</p><p>I loved hearing from Katie about the unique structure of the book—twenty four essays that correspond with the hours of the day—and the way the book’s structure mirrors the many sleepless nights of early parenthood. We also discussed our thoughts on the parallels between writing and parenting, and how to create balance between dark and light, humor and heaviness in a collection.</p><p><strong>You can listen to these book club recordings in the Substack app, in your web browser, or on </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/558Lsln48WOPkiasgmWxSX?si=8eb654c3a7914974"><strong>Spotify</strong></a> Subscribe to Rooted on Spotify to get notifications when new episodes are released. Recorded book club conversations are only available to paid subscribers, but the live book club sessions will continue to be free and open to all readers.</p><p>See Catherine and her husband Michael Kardos on tour for their newly released books!</p><p>April 6: Friendly City Books at Bushy’s Clubhouse, Columbus</p><p>April 7: Lemuria Books, Jackson</p><p>April 8: Off Square Books, Oxford</p><p>April 9: Mississippi State University</p><p>Read along with the Bottom Readers!</p><p><strong>April</strong> <strong>30 </strong>- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/the-image-they-had-painted/"><strong>The Image They Had Painted</strong></a><strong> </strong>with Joesph Patri Brown and Alison Turner</p><p><strong>May </strong>- <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/88903/9781956615623"><strong>When We Were Murderous, Time-Traveling Women</strong></a><strong> </strong>with Ellen Morris Prewitt</p>
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