Interviews
Alice Speri in The Intercept. “The Double Life of Civil Rights Photographer and FBI Informant Ernest Withers, https://theintercept.com/2019/02/28/ernest-withers-book-bluff-city/
“Former Memphis resident and popular historian Preston Lauterbach puts a new focus on that city’s Civil Rights-era story–including that of critical events that led to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.–in his newest book, Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers.”
National Archives Lecture on Bluff City. Feb 5, 2019 at the U.S> National Archives, Washington, D. C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_N5iUawRc
Shook, Rattled and Rolled, Style Weekly (interview by Brent Baldwin), March 24, 2025
Preston Lauterbach on His New Book: "Before Elvis", WKNO FM (interview by Kacky Walton), March 28, 2025
Soulful Dudes, Chapter 16 (interview by Aram Goudsouzian), February 15, 2025
The Kingmakers: PW Talks with Preston Lauterbach, Publishers Weekly, October 11, 2024
The Double Life of Civil Rights Photographer and FBI Informant Ernest Withers, The Intercept (interview by Alice Speri), February 28, 2019
Author Q&A with Preston Lauterbach, Lemuria Books / Clarion-Ledger (interview by Jana Hoops), January 13, 2019
'Bluff City' Captures Photographer Ernest Withers During Civil Rights Movement, NPR Weekend Edition (interview by Scott Simon), January 12, 2019
'Brother Robert' Tells True Story of Childhood with Blues Legend Robert Johnson, NPR, December 29, 2020
Preston Lauterbach on World Cafe, NPR World Cafe, September 15, 2011