A James Beard Award-winning journalist, Boyce Upholt has written for National Geographic, the Oxford American, the Atlantic, and other publications. He’s also the author of a new book, The Great River: The Making & Unmaking of the Mississippi, which Publishers Weekly calls “a majestic history of the Mississippi River…[an] exceptional natural history that never loses sight of the human players involved.” Upholt discussed The Great River with Stephen Usery during a two-part interview in July.

This podcast comes courtesy of WYPL Book Talk in Memphis. Listen to part one here.

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