WEDNESDAY, February 27th at 7PM: The Conclusion of QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS

It seems like we have seen it all in Author Bailey White's quirky Georgia community.  But there's still more depth in "...Plums"

Join Kayden and Caledonia for the final chapters, and the author twines together all the passions, eccentricities, and desires into the finale with: The Silver Thread, The Anvil Experience, and finally Quite a Year for Plums.

Presented live, in Voice.

WEDNESDAY, February 20th at 7:00pm: QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS Continues

We are almost there!  The inevitable conclusion of Bailey White's celebration of a quirky, passionate, "character-ful" community in Georgia. Will Delia and Roger get together for good?  What will happen with Jim Wade and his fans?  Have we heard the last of the typographer?  And what of Louise's little green men?

THIS WEEK: more delights with Looking for Perote, Impassioned Typographer II, and Onion Sandwich.

Kayden Oconnell and Caledonia Skytower live, in Voice.

WEDNESDAY, February 13th at 7PM: More from QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS

Tom Drury of the New York Times said of Bailey White's Novel:

"Bailey White loves names: sasanqua, krummhorn, anhinga, Zephair, Alba Plena, nematode. All appear in this, her first novel. They represent, respectively, a tree, a musical instrument, a bird, an electric fan, a camellia and a roundworm of the phylum Aschelminthes. 

"The homely nematode, in fact, inspires one of the best passages in Quite a Year for Plums, a teeming novel of life among the restless and resilient inhabitants of a south Georgia town. Roger, a plant pathologist, has explained to his old friend Hilma that microscopic nematodes occupy ''almost every part of every organism.'' If the earth and its host inhabitants were to suddenly vanish, the remainder, as Hilma imagines it, would be 'the ghost of a gone world, lingering for one second in space and then dissolving into the silvery dust of collapsing nematodes.'

"That well-turned phrase demonstrates the book's clean, strong style and may allude to its abiding concern, or one of them: What if we're living in the ghost of a gone world? What if the useful adzes of our ancestors have become kitsch to be displayed mindlessly in bland restaurants, and the old constricting social arrangements have given way to uncertainty and missed connections?"

More romance, obessive behavior, and that unique brand of small town joy that can only be found in Bailey White's Georgia.  Kayden Oconnell and Caledonia Skytower continue in voice.

WEDNESDAY, February 6th at 7:00pm" QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS

^{Kayden finally escaped!  So we are going to try again.}

Time to meet someone new!  An Impassioned Typographer ... but then, everyone in author Bailey White's small town seems to be impassioned about something: Fans, Fire, Birds, Embroidery, Gossip, and even passion itself!

Kayden and Caledonia continue this week with Impassioned Typographer, The American Livestock Breed Conservancy, In The Bleak Midwinter, and Betty Sheffield Supreme!

Presented Live in Voice. Drawls extra.

WEDNESDAY, January 30th @ 7pm: More QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS"

Time to meet someone new!  An Impassioned Typographer ... but then, everyone in author Bailey White's small town seems to be impassioned about something: Fans, Fire, Birds, Embroidery, Gossip, and even passion itself!

Kayden and Caledonia continue this week with Impassioned Typographer, The American Livestock Breed Conservancy, In The Bleak Midwinter, and Betty Sheffield Supreme!

Presented Live in Voice. Drawls extra.

WEDNESDAY, January 23rd @ 7pm: QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS Continues

Kayden and Caledonia continue with Bailey White's celebration of southern life in a close community ... sometimes too close ... as it laughs, loves, and looks for happiness.

“Classic Bailey White—deftly drawn characters who can turn a Southern phrase like nobody's business.…Have yourself a taste.” —Southern Living

“As always in White's world, it is the minuscule that matters most and the threads of eccentricity, friendship, ruin, pluck and longing that move us most profoundly.” —The Miami Herald

“The pulse and hum of nature…course through this novel like a clear stream.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tonight:  Four Chickens, Library Picnic, Early Music and Ashes!  Presented Live in Voice.

WEDNESDAY, January 16th @ 7pm: QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS Continues

"Bailey White's dry, low-key drawl is a familiar (and welcome) sound to millions of National Public Radio regulars. On the radio, her intimate vignettes of small-town life are loosely held together by their subjects, who are themselves tightly held together by love, family, and idiosyncrasy. This episodic mode suits her just as well as a novelist. In this audio version of Quite a Year for Plums--which, aside from the occasional bit of atmospheric banjo music, features none but the author's voice--even the temporary denizens of her fictional southern Georgia town have their oddities. A bird artist is obsessed by a vanishing breed of chickens. Another character dreams obsessively of typography. The permanent townsfolk include a woman who believes in little spacemen, a pair of bookish retired schoolteachers, and plant pathologist and banjo picker Roger Meadows, whose peers would like nothing better than to see him settle down with the right woman." 
 -- Amazon.com Review

Kayden returns tonight with more from this delightful gem, and has invited Caledonia to join him.  Romance - fleeting and formative - is in the air, as are the woodpeckers!  Presented Live in Voice.

MONDAY, January 7th at 7PM: "Quite A Year for Plums" (Selections)

Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia.

Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space invaders with specific combinations of letters and numbers. And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster.

Kayden Oconnell begins this series of selections in voice tonight, to be joined by Caledonia later in the month.