Editor's Note
Sheri Lea Sellmeyer’s Nashville’s New Americans takes an up close and personal look at the issue of immigration via profiles of individuals from around the world who have made Nashville home. Reviewer Caroline Siegrist writes that the book “serves as a powerful reminder of the immense diversity the city contains,” and she notes Sellmeyer’s observation that immigrants have been a major factor in Nashville’s economic growth. Sellmeyer will discuss the book on April 11 at the Tennessee State Museum as part of the TN Writers | TN Stories series.
In her latest novel, The Museum of Unusual Occurrence, Erica Wright sets a murder mystery in a community that has made itself a tourist attraction for spiritualists and the occult-curious. Reviewer Bradley Sides writes that “it’s the world-building throughout The Museum of Unusual Occurrence that makes this mystery soar.” Wright, a Knoxville resident, will celebrate the novel’s launch at Union Ave. Books on April 9.
In 2024, Sara Beth West sat down with Chattanooga poet Christian J. Collier to talk about his creative process and his first full-length collection Greater Ghost. Sara Beth writes that the collection “takes readers on a journey through all the ways one might be haunted, all the various ghosts that might visit a person. In these poems, Collier focuses on loss and grieving while managing to infuse every poem with a pulsing, insistent life.” We’re sharing this interview from the archive ahead of Collier’s upcoming appearances at Writers@ Work, April 7-9, and the Southern Literary Festival on April 11.
News Roundup
- Ann Patchett answered questions about her new novel for Publishers Weekly.
- Sybil Baker discussed the upcoming Meacham Writers’ Workshop with The Pulse.
- Tova Mirvis was interviewed for Berkshire Jewish Voice.
- David George Haskell’s How Flowers Made Our World was reviewed in The New York Times.
- A poem by Lisa Dordal was published in Amethyst Review.
