In Conversation with John T. Edge

Name: In Conversation with John T. Edge
Start: 2025-09-23T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Hay House

Schedule

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Hay House | Macon, GA

Hay House and Bear's Books partner for a Jordan Massee Lecture: "House of Smoke" - John T. Edge in conversation with Josephine Bennett at Hay House.
Join us for a compelling evening with John T. Edge as we explore his memoir "House of Smoke" releasing September 16.
This is a ticketed event. You are able to purchase a ticket for the event only or a bundle ticket to include a copy of the memoir and access to the event.
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About "House of Smoke":
In this unflinching and moving memoir, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away, as he tries and fails and tries again to rewrite the stories he inherited. Born in a house where a Confederate general took his first breath and the Lost Cause narrative was gospel, troubled by the violence he witnessed as a boy, Edge ran from his past, searching for a newer and better South. As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a contributor to newspapers and magazines, he told stories that showcased those possibilities.
In the process, Edge became one of the most visible and powerful voices in American food... until he found himself challenged by the audience he once guided, faced down the limits of his work, and returned to his origins to find himself once again. Beginning in Georgia and ending in Mississippi, his search spans the Deep South and charts a very American story of the truth telling and soul searching it takes to love your people and your place.
About John T. Edge:
John T. Edge, author of "House of Smoke: A Southern Goes Searching for Home", writes and hosts the National Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book "The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South" was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford, MS, with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.
About Josephine Bennett:
Josephine Bennett is the Senior Director of News and Partnerships at Georgia Public Broadcasting. Since joining GPB in 2006 she’s served as a reporter, Morning Edition Host, Macon Bureau Chief and Assistant News Director. As a public radio journalist, she loves telling the stories of the American South. Her work ranges from a story about a high school holding its first integrated prom to peanut farmers facing drought conditions resulting in a peanut butter shortage. Her work has aired on GPB and nationally on NPR and the BBC. She’s also worked as a freelance writer for Nickelodeon and TV Land.
Josephine was born in New York City and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She moved to Macon in 1991 with her husband Gordon and daughter Grace. Gordon V joined the family in 1993.
When Josephine is not “making radio” she is spending time with her family or working on the latest renovation project in their historic home in Downtown Macon.