Prior to his readings at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis, Barnes & Noble Vanderbilt, and the Southern Festival of Books, Commercial Appeal reporter Daniel Connolly talks with Chapter 16 about the year he spent embedded in a Memphis high school with a large immigrant population—and about The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, the work of narrative nonfiction that resulted from that intense reporting experience.
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Stephen Usery is the producer of Book Talk, an author-interview program that airs daily on WYPL FM 89.3, a service of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. He lives in Memphis.
Tagged: 2016 Southern Festival of Books, Daniel Connolly, Nonfiction
