Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Abby N. Lewis

Eyes in the Shadows

Tales of death and loss mark Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s unconventional story collection

Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s debut story collection, Little Ones, encompasses the psyche of social outcasts, night terrors, and the perceptive sufferers and witnesses of grief

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Wine, Dine, and Murder

Marlitt Kaplan returns in Lauren Nossett’s The Professor

In The Professor, Lauren Nossett’s sophomore novel, former detective Marlitt Kaplan returns to university politics when her mother asks for her help in a Title IX investigation of a German professor. Lauren Nossett will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

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Hope Is the Thing

Poet Danita Dodson reflects on the loss of her father

Between Gone and Everlasting, Danita Dodson’s most recent poetry collection, explores the many facets of grief after the loss of a parent. Dodson will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 10.

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Maple Syrup and Mustachioed Men

Jeff Mann reflects on life as a gay Appalachian

Jeff Mann’s Loving Mountains, Loving Men, a hybrid work of poetry and memoir, explores the struggle and resilience of the LGBTQ community in Appalachia. Mann will discuss the book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 9.

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Troubled Paradise

Stephen Hundley’s Bomb Island explores a 14-year-old boy’s dangerous coming of age

Stephen Hundley returns to Georgia as his literary stomping ground in his debut novel, Bomb Island, featuring a defunct sunken-bomb-turned-tourist-attraction and a tiger named Sugar.

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Calling for a Hearing

Darnell Arnoult’s latest poetry collection tackles the cosmos

The poems in Darnell Arnoult’s Incantations investigate the complexities of human and ethereal existence, mapping the paradoxes of life.

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