Dr. Waffle & Friends
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Dr. Waffle & Friends
Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.4.2: Dear McSweeney's (My Uncle Did Not Write "Stagger Lee")
Our guest writer this week is the fabulous Mary Miller, who reads a short essay that appeared in McSweeney's—all about how her uncle was maybe not as famous as she had always thought. She and Dr. Waffle discuss music, fame, writing, ambition, big families, the South, storytelling, and storytelling in the South.
TAGS: Cliff Thomas Trio; Lloyd Price; Elvis Presley; Graceland; Sun Studio; American Bandstand; Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; Jerry Lee Lewis; George Eliot; possums; Southern storytelling
Spoilers: Who wrote “Stagger Lee”; what happened to Jerry Lee Lewis
Links:
Lloyd Price’s version of “Stagger Lee”
The Cliff Thomas Trio page at Sun Records
Mary’s story “Outage” in the Oxford American
Cool review of Mary’s work in the LA Review of Books
The entry on Mary Miller in the Mississippi Encyclopedia!
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett’s most recent novel
Melissa Ginsburg’s Doll Apollo
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