The Miller Conversations on Literary Publishing

Hello writers, readers, & friends of The Missouri Review. Thanks to a generous grant from the University of Missouri Office of the Provost, we were able to embark on a year-long project to create a digital archive of conversations with writers, editors, and marketers to contemplate the life cycle of literary works in the present publishing climate. To do so, we invited three stellar writers for in-person author events here in Columbia, which we filmed and are in the process of editing.

Our first conversation featured Rachel Yoder, a former TMR Editors’ Prize winner in fiction (36.1), and was an absolute success. We discussed her widely-acclaimed debut novel Nightbitch (Doubleday, 2021).

For our second installment, we welcomed New York Times bestselling author Leslie Jamison for a conversation about her new memoir Splinters (Little, Brown, 2024).

Our third event brought none other than 2024 MacArthur Fellow Jericho Brown to talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry, The Tradition (Copper Canyon, 2020).

We also recorded zoom conversations with the editors and publicists for each, and those videos are up now our YouTube channel.