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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.4.2: Dear McSweeney's (My Uncle Did Not Write "Stagger Lee")
Episode 2
Friday, 6 June, 2025

Our guest writer this week is the fabulous Mary Miller, who reads a short essay that appeared in McSweeney's—all about how her uncle was maybe not as famous as she had always thought. She and Dr. Waffle discuss music, fame, writing, ambition, big families, the South, storytelling, and storytelling in the South.TAGS: Cliff Thomas Trio; Lloyd Price; Elvis Presley; Graceland; Sun Studio; American Bandstand; Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; Jerry Lee Lewis; George Eliot; possums; Southern storytellingSpoilers: Who wrote “Stagger Lee”; what happened to Jerry Lee LewisLinks:Lloyd Price’s version of “Stagger Lee”The Cliff Thomas Trio page at Sun RecordsMary Miller’s websiteMary’s story “Outage” in the Oxford AmericanCool review of Mary’s work in the LA Review of BooksThe entry on Mary Miller in the Mississippi Encyclopedia!Fat Possum RecordsTom Lake, Ann Patchett’s most recent novelMelissa Ginsburg’s Doll ApolloThanks for listening! If you liked what you heard, please rate, review, subscribe, and share so more folks can find us.FOLLOW us @drwafflepod on Instagram, X, and FacebookEMAIL us at DrWafflePod@gmail.comPODCAST WEBSITERead DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com