Media
Video: Lecture at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, Lenox, MA, August 2022. This is a comprehensive talk about the origins and execution of the Rawlings biography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yUYVv83r0PY
Story: Best Books of 2021, by Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times. Also published in the Florida Courier. January 1, 2022. https://www.flcourier.com/books/best-books-of-2021-include-titles-by-kendi-and-whithead/article_36ae426c-6ad7-11ec-ade0-4faebc6989b5.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR2oSIzYf1fSUyxh3ER6OdNLeR-PaI_FTqmTHRPWw9WPhZgnDcbsdlPsI5s
Story: Reader Favorites for 2021, by Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, December 23, 2021. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-what-were-reading-borrelli-column-reader-favorite-20211223-jmvuenzfnjfp3jof7itwakmr4m-story.html
Story: Garden & Gun’s Favorite Books of 202`1. December 14, 2021. https://gardenandgun.com/articles/ggs-favorite-books-of-2021/
Story: Author Ann McCutchan discusses her biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at the Matheson History Museum. Alachua Chronicle, November 2, 2021. https://alachuachronicle.com/author-ann-mccutchan-discusses-her-biography-of-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-at-the-matheson-history-museum/
Review/Story: In New Biography, Laramie Writer Examines a Different Frontier, by Michael Shay for WyoFile, September 2, 2021. https://www.wyofile.com/in-new-biography-laramie-writer-mccutchan-examines-a-different-frontier/
Opera performance video: The Dreamer, a 40-minute opera with composer Mark Alan Taggart, performed/filmed by the East Carolina University Opera Theater, August 27, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09djovXrcD8
Video: Livestream with Ann McCutchan and Martha Ackmann (Author, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson), sponsored by The Tattered Cover, Denver. July 29, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFJhyLq1KCc
Report: The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio, June 15, 2021. https://www.apr.org/post/life-she-wished-live-biography-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-ann-mccutchan
Review: The Bard of Cross Creek, by Sarah Harrison Smith, Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-life-she-wished-to-live-review-the-bard-of-cross-creek-11623423199?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink PDF of the complete review available. Just shoot me a note.
Podcast/Interview: National Review’s The Great Books program, June 8, 2021. https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-great-books/episode-183-the-yearling-by-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings/
Publication: The Literary Friendship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston. Literary Ladies Guide, June 4. 2021. https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/the-literary-friendship-of-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-zora-neale-hurston/
Review: “The Life She Wished to Live,” by Mike Telfer, Smoke Signals, May 28, 2021. https://smokesignalsnews.com/columns/books/the-life-she-wished-to-live-a-biography-of-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-author-of-the/article_78e0600a-bfc6-11eb-b57d-b761e4166add.html
Review: A Cosmic Connection, by Hannah Joyner for Deep South magazine, May 25, 2021. https://deepsouthmag.com/2021/05/25/a-cosmic-connection/#
Review: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a Novelist Who Went on a Quest for an Authentic Life, by Dwight Garner, New York Times. This is Mr. Garner’s May 10 review, presented by the Virginian-Pilot, with additional illustrations. https://www.pilotonline.com/entertainment/books/vp-db-book-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-053021-20210530-d24rbesvjzbkfk55tb6wqkrbsa-story.html
Review: New Book Brings Rich Insights into Florida Author Rawlings, by Joy Wallace Dickinson. Orlando Sentinel, May 23, 2021. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/os-fe-joy-wallace-dickinson-20210523-4y27gv5rvvhvtkihvoz27ylq64-story.html
Video: Writing Lives: Two Biographers Discuss Their Art and Craft. Ann McCutchan and Leslie Brody with Ken Gerow. Hosted by the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research. Thursday, May 13, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOncPjehf6M
Crowdcast/Video: The Life She Wished to Live: an Evening with Ann McCutchan in Conversation with Bonnie Friedman on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Hosted by Books & Books, Miami. Wednesday, May 12, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--OzWT6aUh8
Review: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a Novelist Who Went on a Quest for an Authentic Life, by Dwight Garner, New York Times, May 10, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/books/review-life-she-wished-to-live-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-ann-mccutchan.html
Publication: Excavating the Life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, LitHub, April 30, 2021. https://lithub.com/excavating-the-life-of-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-author-of-an-american-classic/
Podcast/Video: Hunterdon Chamber Radio and Facebook Live, an interview with Ann McCutchan. https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/at1Nn-80CZ2R_BCSCnGDDJMsrmOEc32TwEpg7ON5oTfH1CsOF8VanFCG-z6681bL.nyEI-zNdCV9F_tBl?fbclid=IwAR3xENS4yHJrw2nAAm2CgxONVL6ixDM5OnQCl1c2DueJsQJMLON3MwQ-MdE Password: 0q##8#gY
Podcast: Welcome to Florida: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, April 27, 2021, interview with Craig Pittman. https://stpetecatalyst.com/podcast-episodes/welcome-to-florida-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings/
Review: The Life She Wished to Live, reviewed by Mary Ann Gwinn, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 23, 2021: https://www.startribune.com/review-the-life-she-wished-to-live-by-ann-mccutchan/600049318/
Review: The Queen of Cross Creek, by Jonathan Miles, for Garden & Gun, February-March 2021: https://gardenandgun.com/articles/the-queen-of-cross-creek/
Review: The Life She Wished to Live, reviewed by Henry L. Carrigan Jr. for BookPage: https://bookpage.com/reviews/26214-ann-mccutchan-life-she-wished-to-live-biography
Podcast: HERstory on the Rocks, March 23, 2021: “The Life She Wished to Live,” interview with Allie Bayne. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/herstory-on-the-rocks/id1440235092?i=1000514063871
Video: “What We’ve Lost, What We’ve Found: Three Creative Writers on Responding to Environmental Change.” With Janisse Ray and Drew Lanham. Sponsored by the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research. Ken Gerow, moderator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVGE0YJtE50&feature=youtu.be
Documentary: Here is Home: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek by Sonya Doctorian, 2018
Interview: Lighthouse Writers Workshop, July 24, 2017.
Interview: "Writing Out of the Worlds You Know," Concerning Where's the Moon?, musical projects and other work. Published by American Literary Review, 2016. Here's the link.
Interview: Flashbulb Flashback: “Tracking Ann McCutchan, 6.26.13,” with Lyle Brooks. A look back at how a classical music life morphed into a writing one.
Video: River Music: an Atchafalya Story, interview, Louisiana PBS, 2011. http://ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/asset-detail/LSWI-3508-RiverMusic