Among the Mushrooms: Selected Stories from NPR's Bailey White

by Bailey White

Here is a collection of Bailey White's best-loved stories, which are tender, sometimes eccentric, and often hilarious. Her tales evoke a rural America populated by folks like Uncle Jimbuddy, a cabinetmaker with an unfortunate proclivity for chopping off his fingers; Aunt Belle, who teaches an alligator to roar on command; and White's ferocious, arthritic mother, Rose, who keeps worms in her kitchen for amusement.

Genres: Short Stories, Humor, Audiobook, Southern, Nonfiction

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Bailey White was born in 1950 in Thomasville, Ga. She still lives in the same house in which she grew up, on one of the large tracts of virgin longleaf pine woods. Her father, Robb White, was a fiction writer and later a television and movie script writer. Her mother, Rosalie White, was a farmer, and worked for many years as the executive director of the local Red Cross Chapter. She has one brother, who is a carpenter and boat builder, and one sister, who is a bureaucrat. White graduated from Florida State University in 1973, and has taken a break from teaching first grade to pursue writing full-time. She is the author of Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, and Quite a Year for Plums.

Reviews

[David Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Among the Mushrooms: Selected Stories From NPR's Bailey White by Bailey White (Phoenix Audio 1993)(nonfiction). This is a collection of the delicious stories of the gravelly-voiced schoolteacher from Thomasville, Georgia as only she can tell them. Favorites from this batch include the firewood-splitting uncle who just couldn't keep from chopping his fingers off, and the aunt who taught a bull alligator in the backyard pond to roar upon command. There is no other voice like Bailey White writing today! My rating: 7.5/10, finished 1995.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love to listen to Bailey White. She is a wonderful storyteller. I was delighted to find this collection of short stories at Audible. I wish I could find all of her work read by the author. Not my top favorite of hers, but a great fix none the less.

[B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great set of stories from Bailey White. I really enjoyed that you didn't find out the humor in the story until the end. It kept me thinking, "where is she going with this?"