Memphis as Microcosm
Commercial Appeal reporter Daniel Connolly talks with Chapter 16 about the challenges facing the children of immigrants
Prior to his readings at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis, Barnes & Noble Vanderbilt, and the Southern Festival of Books, Commercial Appeal reporter Daniel Connolly talks with Chapter 16 about the year he spent embedded in a Memphis high school with a large immigrant population—and about The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, the work of narrative nonfiction that resulted from that intense reporting experience.
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Stephen Usery is the producer of Book Talk, an author-interview program that airs daily on WYPL FM 89.3, a service of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. He lives in Memphis.
