027: Anthony Grooms

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Alison talks with Anthony Grooms, whose latest novel, The Vain Conversation, comes out March 1, 2018 from Story River Books. The book was inspired by Clinton Adams, a man who says that as a ten-year-old boy, he witnessed a group of white men lynch two black couples in Walton County, Georgia. Referred to as the Moore's Ford or Moore's Landing Lynchings, these 1946 murders are sometimes considered the last mass lynching in U.S. history. Grooms says that while his novel is dedicated to the victims and Clinton Adams, it is not about them--it's a work of fiction.

SHOW NOTES:

"Clinton Adams Recalls the Lynching at Moore's Ford," Atlanta-Journal Constitution

Anthony Grooms Author Website

Feb. 15th - Anthony Grooms at the Wrecking Bar

Feb. 15th-18th - 11th Annual Savannah Book Festival

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