April 7, 2010 Graduate students in Vanderbilt University's nationally ranked MFA program have launched a national literary magazine, Nashville Review. The online journal, which went live on April 1, is a daunting project the students "conceived of, pursued, and brought into being all by themselves," says poet—and Vanderbilt professor of creative writing—Kate Daniels.
April 7, 2010 If your idea of a multimedia presentation on global warming begins and ends with the somber pronouncements of An Inconvenient Truth, check out the debate between Nashvillian Amanda Little, author of Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—A Ride to Our Renewable Future, and independent filmmaker Phelim McAleer, a global-warming denier. The debate, sponsored by Lexus to call attention to its new hybrid vehicle, was held in New York City on March 30 and proved to be a raucous event.
April 6, 2010 After being welcomed by the American media as literary royalty—featured three times in one week by The New York Times and appearing on that high throne of media success, The Daily Show, just for starters—Rebecca Skloot is now getting attention overseas as well.
April 2, 2010 John Seigenthaler will interview Barry Mazor, author of Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, on the April 4 edition of A Word on Words. The program airs on Nashville Public Television at 10:30 on Sunday morning. Learn more about A Word on Words here, and read Paul McCoy’s interview with Mazor for Chapter 16 here.
April 1, 2010 When Humanities Tennessee launched Chapter 16 last October, we held our collective breath a bit, wondering whether there were enough book lovers to sustain a literary website even as newspapers around the state were cutting their books coverage or shuttering their book sections altogether.
March 31, 2010 Today, on one day’s notice, mommy-blogger and Memphis native Heather Armstrong, author of It Sucked and Then I Cried, dropped everything and flew to D.C. at the invitation of the White House. Her role: to explain to the president of the United States how hard it is to be a working parent.
