Editor's Note
The Porch, Nashville’s nonprofit literary center, will be holding its annual fundraiser on May 2, and this year’s featured authors are Tennessee’s own Mary Laura Philpott and Margaret Renkl. On May 3, Memphis will welcome Roxane Gay as one of the keynote speakers for this year’s Bookstock author festival. (Check out the news roundup below for a conversation between Gay and poet Saeed Jones.)
Today at Chapter 16, Chris Scott reviews Lincoln’s Peace, historian Michael Vorenberg’s examination of the end of the Civil War. Last week, we revisited Jane Marcellus’ review of Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler), an uncompromising look at sexual violence; Sean Kinch reviewed 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen; Kashif Andrew Graham reviewed a new novel by Daniel Black, Isaac’s Song; and Whitney Bryant reviewed Love, Rita by Bridgett M. Davis.
News Roundup
- Poet Tiana Clark remembered her early mentor, the late Bill Brown, on the Literary Hub podcast.
- Ann Patchett and Caroline Randall Williams spoke against book bans at the Tennessee Capitol.
- Saeed Jones and Roxane Gay talked about the craft of creative nonfiction at Harvard Medical School.
- An essay by Kory Wells was published in Amethyst Review.
