A Celebration of Everything Alive and Whole
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Chapter 16 talks with Ada Limón, a poet whose work is grounded in the physical world, delighting in nature and urging readers toward curiosity and wonder.
Loss, Life, and Hope
Chattanooga poet Christian Collier focuses on loss and grieving in his debut collection, Greater Ghost, while still infusing every poem with a pulsing, insistent life. He will be the featured author for Writers@Work 2026 in Chattanooga on April 7-9 and a visiting writer at the Southern Literary Festival at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga on April 11.
Glimpses of Vulnerability
In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly returns to the “micro-memoir,” a form that conveys human experience through brief, richly detailed scenes.
Elevation
George Saunders’ Vigil raises nuanced questions about kindness and what we owe the living — and the dead. Saunders will discuss the book with Ann Patchett at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on January 30.
Finding Holiness
Queer Communion, edited by Davis Shoulders, gathers 13 queer writers to reflect on the meaning of faith and community.
Web of Lies
With Gone Before Goodbye, Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben combine forces to introduce readers to Maggie McCabe, a world-class reconstructive surgeon who finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue and lies. The authors will discuss the book at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville on October 29, with Ann Patchett moderating.
