May 2, 2016 The school year is winding down now, but the literary events around the state are just gearing up.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Sharpen Your Quills
Take your pick from writing workshops around the state
News & Notes
The Perfect Fang
News of the next Kevin Wilson novel arrives just as his first hits the silver screen
April 25, 2016 Sewanee author Kevin Wilson has a new novel coming out in January and a film version of his first novel coming out in a few days.
Countdown: T Minus 19 Months
Another space-themed book deal for Margaret Lazarus Dean
April 18, 2016 Astronaut Scott Kelly, whose master’s degree is from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, will write a memoir with Margaret Lazarus Dean, a novelist and nonfiction writer at the same university. The book, Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars, will be published in November 2017.
Equilibrium
Vanderbilt MFA candidate Tiana Clark picks up another major award
April 4, 2016 Vanderbilt University M.F.A. candidate Tiana Clark has added another national honor to her extensive CV: Clark’s chapbook, Equilibrium, is the winner of the 2016 Frost Place competition and will be published by Bull City Press in early 2017.
A Bookshop on Wheels
Nashville’s Parnassus Books launches a bookmobile
March 21, 2016 Make room, Nashville food trucks: there’s a new kid in town. Parnassus Books—which took its name from Parnassus on Wheels, a 1917 Christopher Morley novella about a book-selling caravan—has just fulfilled its own destiny by launching a bookstore on wheels.
We Are Never Through Discovering Who We Are
In The New York Times, Arnold Weinstein makes a persuasive case for literature
March 7, 2016 Literature teaches the skills of clear writing and close reading, the ability to communicate, and the creativity necessary to see beyond the walls of the cubicle’s box. But there’s a value, too, in what literature gives us that has nothing to do with employment skills, and Memphis native Arnold Weinstein made a case for it recently in The New York Times.
