{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Bookmark with Don Noble: Jennifer Paddock (2009)","description":"In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, Don Noble speaks with Jennifer Paddock at the Friends Bookstore in the Fairhope Public Library during the annual gathering Southern Writers Reading. Their conversation explores Paddock\u2019s early novels, her interest in women at turning points in their lives, and the pull of places such as Point Clear, Fairhope, Destin, and the Gulf Coast. Paddock is the author of A Secret Word, Point Clear, and The Weight of Memory. She earned a master\u2019s degree in creative writing from New York University, and her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in publications including The North American Review, Other Voices, Garden &amp;amp; Gun, Mr. Beller\u2019s Neighborhood, The New York Times, and Stories from the Blue Moon Caf\u00e9. A former Division I tennis player and longtime tennis professional at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama, Paddock brings an intimate knowledge of the Gulf Coast to her fiction. Bookmark with Don Noble features conversations with writers whose work has shaped Alabama, the South, and American literature. ","author_name":"Bookmark with Don Noble","author_url":"http:\/\/bookmark.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41792605\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/41792605"}