Editor's Note
We teased spring in the newsletter a few weeks ago, but it’s officially arrived now — so here are a few more spring-into-summer happenings to keep in mind:
Independent Bookstore Day happens on April 26, and indie stores across Tennessee have special plans to welcome customers that day. Check out your favorite local shop and make plans to add to your TBR pile.
Burke’s Book Store, a venerable Memphis institution, is marking its 150th anniversary with a fundraiser to support “upgrades, projects, and goals.” Check out the donation page for details about the store’s plans, and drop a few bucks in the jar if you can.
Among the conferences coming up later this spring are The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival on May 30-31, with Frank X Walker and Denton Loving, among others; and the Clarksville Writers Conference on June 4-6.
And don’t forget that this fall’s Tremont Writers Conference is accepting applications through May 15. The faculty lineup this year includes Crystal Wilkinson, David Joy, Karen Spears Zacharias, and Maurice Manning.
Today at Chapter 16, David Dark interviews Yolanda Pierce, dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School, about her latest book, The Wounds Are the Witness. Last week, we revisited Julie Danielson’s 2019 interview with children’s author Shauna LaVoy Reynolds about her debut picture book, Poetree; Erica Wright considered the trials and rewards of loving a difficult pet in her essay “Never Leave Us Alone”; Sean Kinch reviewed Emma Donoghue’s new novel, The Paris Express; and Cat Acree reviewed historian Timothy Snyder’s timely book On Freedom.
News Roundup
- Clay Risen was interviewed for NPR’s Fresh Air, and his book Red Scare was reviewed in The New Yorker.
- Bridgett M. Davis, author of Love, Rita, was interviewed for Shelf Awareness.
- E.J. Swatsell wrote about the history of Greene County pottery for Appalachian Places.
- A poem by Linda Parsons appeared in Otherwise Collective.
- Adam Ross and the editorial staff of The Sewanee Review were interviewed for This Is Nashville.
