Tom Perrotta delivers up-to-the-minute satire in Tracy Flick Can’t Win
The ambitious heroine of Election returns in Tom Perrotta’s latest novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Perrotta will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 16.
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Lisa Alther’s Swan Song sends its grief-stricken 60-something heroine on a cruise
Swan Song: An Odyssey, the eighth novel by Kingsport native Lisa Alther, is a witty meditation on loss and longing in late-middle age.
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Scott Newstok critiques modern education in How to Think Like Shakespeare
Rhodes College professor Scott Newstok analyzes the ills of contemporary education and looks to the past for a cure.
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An aspiring writer toughs it out in Lily King’s Writers & Lovers
The heroine of Lily King’s fifth novel, Writers & Lovers, is 31 years old, deeply in debt, and living in a potting shed, but she won’t let her writing dream die.
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J.T. Ellison shares some thoughts on social media, literary community, and her latest novel, Good Girls Lie
J.T. Ellison’s fourth stand-alone thriller, Good Girls Lie, unfurls within the gates of Goode Academy, an elite girls’ boarding school in rural Virginia. Ellison talked with Chapter 16 about the setting of her new book, her belief in supporting other writers, and the challenge of staying focused in an age of distraction. She’ll appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 7.
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Barry Zito was the hottest, highest-paid pitcher in the major leagues. So why did he feel so lost?
Barry Zito’s memoir, Curveball, recounts the star pitcher’s triumph, failure, and long spiritual quest.
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