Start Me Up: Leta McCollough Seletzky

Start Me Up with Kimberley A. Johnson · Apr 20, 2023 · 54m

Leta McCollough Seletzky is the author of The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow whose work has been featured in The Atlantic; The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; and elsewhere. Her essay "The Man in the Picture," published in O, The Oprah Magazine, was selected as a Notable Essay in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2019. Topics: Leta talked about her book and then we discussed what's happening in Tennessee; the unique "misogynoir&#34…