Editor's Note

Our friends at The Porch, Nashville’s nonprofit writing center, are having a fundraiser on May 9 to benefit Humanities Tennessee during the current funding crisis. Yurina Yoshikawa will lead a generative writing workshop followed by an open mic reading with the theme “Tennessee, in Your Own Words.” See all the details here. (And don’t forget The Porch’s own annual fundraiser on May 2, which will feature Mary Laura Philpott and Margaret Renkl.) Heartfelt thanks to The Porch and to all the kind folks who have offered their support to HT during this difficult period. 

Today at Chapter 16, Joy Ramirez reviews Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business by Roxane Gay, who’ll be a keynote speaker at this year’s Bookstock event in Memphis on May 3. Last week, on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh, we published “A Healing Journey,” an essay by Nashvillian Botum Chhay about her first encounter with Cambodia, the country her family was forced to flee. 

Rounding out a short week, Erica Wright reviewed Hellions, a new story collection by Julia Elliott, and G. Robert Frazier reviewed Streets of Nashville, a Music City thriller by Michael Amos Cody.

News Roundup

Joe Pagetta reviewed Charles Strobel’s memoir, The Kingdom of the Poor, for America. Major Jackson has stepped away from his role as host of The Slowdown.  Silas House wrote about the power of poetry in tough times for Salvation South. An essay by Linda Parsons was published in Emerge Literary Journal. Dolen Perkins-Valdez was interviewed for WUNC’s Due South.