The state’s largest literary event will feature 100 authors
…last year’s all-virtual Festival, this year’s online programming will allow festivalgoers to tune into author sessions and connect with fellow attendees, while providing access to recordings of all festival sessions….
An outdoor homage to Suttree and Knoxville’s past
…regional artists, including Kelle Jolly, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bill MacKay, and RB Morris, who will also read passages from the book. The film will be shown on a 40-foot screen,…
Corey Mesler shares a few thoughts on antiheroes, privacy, and prolificity
…usually hidden. It’s easy to see a parallel with the destruction of personal privacy in the digital age. Is that loss of privacy something that troubles you? Mesler: No, I’m…
Great Circle explores the interconnected lives surrounding a famous woman aviator
…life in a less self-sabotaging direction. Drawn to Marian’s story as a child, Hadley recognized salient but coincidental parallels between them. Hadley had lost her own parents in a…
Anjali Enjeti’s The Parted Earth follows several generations of personal fallout from India’s Partition
…Spanning generations and countries, The Parted Earth examines the personal costs of starting over in the face of tragedy, whether those tragedies are intimate losses or shockwaves of upheaval across…
Anjali Enjeti considers her identity in an evolving region in Southbound
…demanding work required of political activists, conveying in brutal detail just how unglamorous campaign work can be. Other essays in the collection reflect an author unafraid to take risks. In…
