Frye Gaillard & Pat Toomay 
Word on Words 
The Best of John Seigenthaler’s Interviews

For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most impor­tant writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative pro­cesses. Seigenthaler was a deeply engaged reader and a generous interviewer, a true craftsman. Frye Gaillard and Pat Toomay have collected and transcribed some of the iconic interactions from the show. Featuring interviews with: Arna Bontemps *; Marshall Chapman *; Pat Conroy *; Rodney Crowell *; John Egerton *; Jesse Hill Ford *; Charles Fountain *; William Price Fox *; Kinky Friedman *; Frye Gaillard *; Nikki Giovanni *; Doris Kearns Goodwin *; David Halberstam *; Waylon Jennings *; John Lewis *; David Maraniss *; William Marshall *; Jon Meacham *; Ann Patchett *; Alice Randall *; Dori Sanders *; John Seigenthaler Sr. *; Marty Stuart *; Pat Toomay