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Season 1

  • S01E01 Mary Alice Monroe

    • September 13, 2018
    • PBS

    Host Holly Bounds Jackson from SCETV Lowcountry sits down with writer and author Mary Alice Monroe.

  • S01E02 Dorothea Benton Frank

    • September 20, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Dorothea Benton Frank, a New York Times bestselling author, 2015 inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, and author of Sullivan’s Island, Plantation, and most recently, By Invitation Only. Dorothea Benton Frank discusses her passion for writing, teaching new writers, and meeting her fans.

  • S01E03 Ray McManus

    • September 27, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Ray McManus, an American poet with three award-winning poetry collections and associate professor of English at University of South Carolina Sumter. Ray McManus discusses his passion for poetry.

  • S01E04 Alexia Jones Helsley

    • October 4, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Alexia Jones Helsley, senior instructor of history at University of South Carolina Aiken, recipient of the Governor’s Archives Award for Outstanding Service in Promoting the Wider Use of South Carolina’s Documentary Heritage, author of Wicked Beaufort. Alexia Jones Helsley discusses her passion for history and growing up in the lowcountry.

  • S01E05 Bernie Schein

    • October 11, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Bernie Schein, author of Famous All Over Town and Beaufort native. Bernie Schein discusses growing up in the lowcountry, Pat Conroy’s father as the inspiration for his book and his friendship with Pat Conroy.

  • S01E06 Alan Chaput

    • October 18, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Alan Chaput, author of Savannah Sleuth. Alan Chaput discusses his writing process and his use of social media.

  • S01E07 Nina Leipold

    • October 25, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Nina Leipold, aquatic conservationist, children’s author and illustrator and author of The Mermaid of Hilton Head. Nina Leipold discusses her passion for writing children’s books and for educating others about how to keep our oceans clean.

  • S01E08 Ellen Malphrus

    • November 1, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Ellen Malphrus, poet, Writer-in-Residence & associate professor of English at University of South Carolina Beaufort and author of Untying the Moon. Ellen Malphrus discusses her love for poetry, writing, teaching writing and her role with the Pat Conroy Literary Festival.

  • S01E09 John Warley

    • November 8, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with John Warley, author of "A Southern Girl" and "Stand Forever", Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century." John Warley discusses his writing process and his friendship with Pat Conroy.

  • S01E10 Jim Jordan

    • November 15, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Jim Jordan, author of The Slave-Trader’s Letter Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade and the Savannah Grey series. Jim Jordan discusses his love for history and the differences in writing non-fiction and fiction.

  • S01E11 Stephanie Austin Edwards

    • November 22, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Stephanie Austin Edwards, author of What We Set In Motion, winner of the Best Submission Award at the Atlanta’s Writer’s Club Conference. Stephanie Austin Edwards discusses her love for teaching writing, volunteering at the Pat Conroy Literary Center and her roots in the lowcountry.

  • S01E12 Lauren Rule Maxwell

    • November 29, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Lauren Rule Maxwell, associate professor of English at The Citadel, director of the Lowcountry Writing Project and author of Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas. Lauren Rule Maxwell discusses her passion for teaching young authors and the importance of understanding historical literature.

  • S01E13 Roger Newman

    • December 6, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Roger Newman, Maternal-fetal Medicine specialist, professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, and author of Occam’s Razor & Two Drifters. Roger Newman discusses his passion for writing and for practicing medicine.

  • S01E14 Tim Conroy

    • December 13, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Tim Conroy, poet and author of Theologies of Terrain. Tim Conroy discusses his passion for writing poetry, his brother, Pat Conroy, and offers advice to young writers.

  • S01E15 Nelle & Ora Smith

    • December 27, 2018
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Nelle & Ora Smith, mother and daughter authors of Paradise: Memories of Hilton Head in the Early Days. Nelle & Ora Smith discuss the building of Sea Pines, the first Heritage Golf Tournament, and how this book fulfills the last wishes of John Gettys Smith, former head of marketing and public relations for Charles E. Fraser.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Rebecca Bruff

    • August 31, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Rebecca Bruff, scholarship recipient of the 2017 Key West Literary Seminar and author of "Trouble the Water."

  • S02E02 Cassandra King Conroy

    • September 5, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Cassandra King Conroy, award-winning author of five novels and author of "Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy."

  • S02E03 Patti Callahan Henry

    • September 12, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of fifteen books and author of "Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis" and her work of contemporary Southern fiction "The Favorite Daughter."

  • S02E04 Sallie Ann Robinson

    • September 19, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Sallie Ann Robinson, American cookbook author, celebrity chef, cultural historian, and author of "Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way."

  • S02E05 Robert Hicks

    • September 26, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Robert Hicks, New York Times Best Selling Author of the "Widow of the South."

  • S02E06 J.C. Sasser

    • October 3, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with J.C. Sasser, 2018 Southern Book Prize award winner and author of "Gradle Bird."

  • S02E07 George Singleton

    • October 10, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with George Singleton, recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Hilldale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence and author of "Staff Picks."

  • S02E08 Bren McClain

    • October 24, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Bren McClain, winner of the 2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and author of "One Good Mama Bone."

  • S02E09 F. Rutledge Hammes

    • October 31, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with F. Rutledge Hammes, recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship for prose, and author of "A Curious Matter of Men With Wings."

  • S02E10 Larry Rowland

    • November 7, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Larry Rowland, author of "The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina."

  • S02E11 Debbi Covington

    • November 14, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Debbi Covington, Southern Living’s “Master of Entertaining,” and author of "Celebrate Beaufort, Celebrate Everything!"

  • S02E12 Lisa Ann Cullen

    • November 21, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Lisa Anne Cullen. Author of "Little Orange Honey Hood" and "The Three Wild Pigs."

  • S02E13 Randy Spencer

    • November 28, 2019
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Randy Spencer.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Wanda Lloyd

    • October 1, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with retired newspaper editor, winner of the Ida B. Wells Award & Robert G. McGruder award, and Hall of Fame inductee to Region III National Association of Black Journalists, Wanda Lloyd. Author of Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism.

  • S03E02 Nathalie Dupree

    • October 8, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with James Beard Award winning author and chef, Nathalie Dupree, author of Nathalie Dupree’s Favorite Stories & Recipes.

  • S03E03 Marcus Amaker

    • October 15, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with Charleston Poet Laureate, Marcus Amaker, author of The Birth of All Things.

  • S03E04 Wiley Cash

    • October 22, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with New York Times Best Selling author, Wiley Cash, author of "The Last Ballad."

  • S03E05 Susan Zurenda

    • October 29, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with award winning author, Susan Zurenda, author of Bells for Eli.

  • S03E06 Jonathan Haupt

    • November 5, 2020
    • PBS

    Jonathan Haupt, Executive Director of the Pat Conroy Literary center, joins us by the river to talk about his co-edited collection of essays, Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.

  • S03E07 Brad Taylor

    • November 12, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with author Brad Taylor.

  • S03E08 Dana Ridenour

    • November 19, 2020
    • PBS

    Dana Ridenour sits down with Holly Jackson to talk about her new book, "Below the Radar."

  • S03E09 Whitney McDuff

    • November 26, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with Whitney McDuff.

  • S03E10 Elise Blackwell

    • December 3, 2020
    • PBS

    Holly Bounds Jackson is by the river with author Elise Blackwell.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Mary Whyte

    • September 9, 2021
    • PBS

    Mary Whyte joins Holly By The River and discusses her book, We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America. Join us and learn about the process of painting fifty U.S. veterans as we sit By The River.

  • S04E02 Natasha Trethewey

    • September 16, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Natasha Trethewey to discuss her book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir. Holly learns about the courage that it takes to tell the story of Trethewey’s mother’s death and how poetry helps her deal with it.

  • S04E03 Eric Crawford

    • September 23, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with associate professor of musicology, Eric Sean Crawford to discuss his book Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands. Holly learns about the lack of education about Gullah Spirituals and the importance of cultural memory. Special appearance by the St. Helena Island Singers.

  • S04E04 Jo Hackl

    • September 30, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with Jo Hackl to discuss her book "Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe." Holly learns about a twelve-year old’s eleven-day journey that build resilience and the importance of resilience for our youth.

  • S04E05 John Cribb

    • October 7, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with award winning author John Cribb to discuss his book Old Abe: A Novel. Holly learns about one of our greatest presidents and the process of writing about one’s childhood hero.

  • S04E06 Carrie Morey

    • October 14, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly is By The River with Carrie Morey, author of Callie’s Biscuits & Southern Traditions.

  • S04E07 Mary Alice Monroe & Angela May

    • October 21, 2021
    • PBS

    Mary Alice Monroe and Angela May join Holly By The River to discuss their book, "The Islanders."

  • S04E08 Tom Poland & Robert Clark

    • October 28, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with author Tom Poland and photographer Robert Clark to talk about their book, Carolina Bays: Wild, Mysterious, and Majestic Landforms. Holly learns all about their adventures exploring and photographing Carolina Bays, including a near run-in with a bear.

  • S04E09 Kristin Harmel

    • November 4, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with New York Times Bestselling Author Kristin Harmel to discuss her book The Forest of Vanishing Stars. Holly learns about how Kristin’s experience as a reporter for People magazine prepared her for writing historical fiction and interviewing the last living Bielski brother.

  • S04E10 Jeyda Bolukbasi

    • November 18, 2021
    • PBS

    Jeyda Bolukbasi joins Holly by the river and discusses her book, Tuah. Join us and learn about the story behind her book.

  • S04E11 Karen White

    • November 25, 2021
    • PBS

    The story of "The Last Night in London" sparked our attention and need to read the beautifully written story.

  • S04E12 Patti Callahan Henry

    • December 16, 2021
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with New York Times Bestselling author, Patti Callahan Henry to discuss her book Surviving Savannah. Holly learns about the intense research process of writing historical fiction.

  • S04E13 Gervais Hagerty

    • December 23, 2021
    • PBS

    Gervais Hagerty joins Holly By The River and discusses her book, In Polite Company. Join us and learn about the story behind her book, as we sit By The River.

  • S04E14 Preslaysa Williams

    • December 30, 2021
    • PBS

    Preslaysa Williams joins Holly By The River and discusses her book, A Lowcountry Bride. Join us and learn about the story behind her book, as we sit By The River.

  • S04E15 Kristy Woodson Harvey

    • January 6, 2022
    • PBS

    Holly Jackson is by the river with Kristy Woodson Harvey to discuss her book Under the Southern Sky. Holly learns about how Kristy navigates being an author, blogger, and Podcaster.

  • S04E16 Ryan Copeland

    • January 13, 2022
    • PBS

    Ryan Copeland joins Holly By The River and discusses his book, Waking Up Dead. Join us and learn about the story behind his book, as we sit By The River.

  • S04E17 Hubert Green

    • January 20, 2022
    • PBS

    Hubert Green joins Holly By The River and discusses his book, Magnolia, Magnolia, Where are you?