{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Lit Chat with Prolific Local History Author Tim Gilmore","description":" The Spirit of Place Tim Gilmore is a prolific local history author who has written extensively about Jacksonville. As the writer and creator of www.jaxpsychogeo.com, a project that explores place and catalogs the Southern Gothic, he has told more than 700 stories of strange and historic locations in and around Jacksonville, Florida. He has also published 22 books. "Ever since UNF English Professor Alex Menocal introduced me to the concept of psychogeography years ago, I\u2019ve been enthralled with it," Gilmore says. "It\u2019s a portmanteau word, the psychology of geography, [meaning] something like the spirit of place. It\u2019s where the name for my website, jaxpsychogeo, comes from." Gilmore seems equally fascinated with Jacksonville and its people. He is also the founder of JaxbyJax. A literary arts festival, now in its 10th year, JaxbyJax was built on the theme of \u201cJacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville.\u201d Few writers have written about Jacksonville more than Gilmore. He joined us last November to talk about his latest book, The Culture Wars of Warren Folks.  Tim Gilmore has written 22 books including Box Broken Open: The Architecture of Ted Pappas; Murder Capital: Eight Stories, 1890s-1980s; Channeling Anna Fletcher; Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows; The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard; Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray\u2019s Unholy Trinity; and The Mad Atlas of Virginia King. Four of the works he\u2019s written for the stage have been produced by Florida State College at Jacksonville DramaWorks and his writing has appeared in numerous publications both locally and nationally. JaxPsychoGeo has received mention in publications including The Miami Herald, The Washington Post and The New Yorker and was featured in the A24 book Florida! A Hyper-Local Guide to the Flora, Fauna and Fantasy of the Most Far-Out State in America. Gilmore teaches Literature and Writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville. He\u2019s received awards from FSCJ, the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and Jacksonville City Council. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. You can also read his twice-weekly newsletter, Tim Gilmore\u2019s deadpaper, at timgilmore.substack.com. Interviewer Shep Shepard is a professor of English at FSCJ\u2019s Nassau Center. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida and has worked as a full-time instructor at FSCJ for twenty years. In his spare time, he produces music under various monikers, edits fiction and nonfiction prose, creates digital art, and enjoys time with his wife Ana and their dogs Meka and Moxie. READ Check out Tim's work from the Library Catalog: https:\/\/jkpl.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/results?qu=AUTHOR%3D%22tim+gilmore%22&te=  Tim Recommends: Pyschogeographical Works I\u2019ve long been a huge Cormac McCarthy fan. I\u2019ve assigned The Road to numerous classes over the years. Of all the McCarthy I\u2019ve read, I most highly recommend The Road and two of his earlier novels: First, there\u2019s the 1973 novel Child of God, which somehow manages to be one of the most horrifying things I\u2019ve ever read and one of the most beautiful. Few writers could achieve that strange incongruous feat, perhaps none better than McCarthy. Meanwhile, his 1979 novel Suttree paints as detailed a picture of down-and-out Knoxville, Tennessee, as Joyce ever painted of Dublin. It\u2019s perhaps the greatest American psychogeographical work. When I recently read John Oliver Killens\u2019 1954 novel Youngblood, I couldn\u2019t believe I\u2019d not read him already. This novel, alongside Harry Crews\u2019 newly reissued 1978 memoir A Childhood, has to be among the best writings ever to come out of Georgia. The two of them work like split-screen, a Black childhood and a white childhood, both so different and so similar. Both writers had ties to Jacksonville. Crews said mid-20th century Jax was the place poor Georgia farmers went when the crops failed. Various artists and writers have used psychogeography in different ways. I\u2019ve returned time and again to my favorite such writings, which I can\u2019t recommend enough \u2013 novels like Peter Ackroyd\u2019s Chatterton and Hawksmoor and Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved. On the face of it, Ackroyd and Morrison couldn\u2019t be more different, but they both explore how culture is haunted by history and how patterns of history present themselves as ghostly. Then there\u2019s Joseph Mitchell\u2019s Joe Gould\u2019s Secret, a nonfiction account of a homeless Greenwich Village icon who claimed to have written the longest book in the world. Tim Recommends: Other Jax Authors I\u2019d be negligent if I didn\u2019t give a shout-out to our local literary community, which runs so much deeper and wider than most locals realize and includes works like Julie Delegal\u2019s Seen and Andres Rojas\u2019s Third Winter in Our Second Country and Johnny Masiulewicz\u2019s Happy Tapir zine series. I could name dozens of other writers I admire and their works, but as soon as I attempt a long list, I\u2019ll foolishly omit someone and lose a few nights\u2019 sleep. (I already see 15 or 20 people in my mind\u2019s eye whose names I didn\u2019t mention, but could have, just now.) Anyone who wants an extensive list of writers participating in the Jax community, just look at the archives for the last nine festivals at jaxbyjax.com. I\u2019ll just say this is the 10th year of JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, which my wife Jo Carlisle and I founded and then relinquished to the more capable hands of Darlyn and Brad Kuhn. --- Never miss an event! 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