Editor's Note
We’re coming out of last week’s bitterly cold weather, and of course the rising warmth isn’t really spring arriving, but it feels a bit that way. Spring will get here eventually, though, and some fine literary gatherings will come with it. In April, Lorrie Moore will be the featured author for Chattanooga’s annual Writers@Work event, and Janisse Ray and Charles Dodd White are among the faculty for the Appalachian Ink conference in Oak Ridge. ETSU’s Spring Literary Festival, also held in April, will bring keynote speaker Helena María Viramontes to Johnson City. In May, BookStock will host authors, workshops, and family-friendly activities at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis.
Today at Chapter 16, Jim Patterson interviews Clay Risen about his latest book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America. Last week, we revisited Aram Goudsouzian’s 2018 review of Zora Neale Huston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’; Frye Gaillard answered questions from Chapter 16 about The Literary Legacy of Jimmy Carter, an anthology of essays exploring the late president’s books; and we featured an excerpt from Stephanie Niu’s award-winning poetry collection, I Would Define the Sun.
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