In a book that may or may not be a long essay, and may or may not be a collection of prose poems, T Fleishmann explores the nature of personal truth
For a suitable introduction to Syzygy, Beauty, let us consider the name of its author, T Fleischmann. A first name that consists of a single initial, both firm and coy,…
For May Justus, the late children’s author from East Tennessee, folksongs were inextricably linked to storytelling
A Smoky Mountain native, devoted teacher of Appalachian children, and author of more than sixty books for children, May Justus lived just over a hill from the Highlander Folk School,…
At the Children’s Festival of Reading, Knoxville hosts a star-studded lineup of authors that will turn kids on to books
“When I was a kid, I liked to read. A lot.” So begins the website biography of Jennifer Holm, author of the wildly popular Babymouse series and other award-winning books…
YA novelist Victoria Schwab has two more books on the way—and one of them is for grownups
…to great acclaim: Chapter 16‘s Susannah Felts called it “an accomplished take on the [fairy-tale] form, artfully deploying many of its traditional elements: a seemingly distant time and place, a…
Delia Ephron’s new novel includes a very screen-ready lion; Ephron tells Chapter 16 why she put him in a novel instead of a movie
Seeing the name Ephron attached to a book, movie, or theatrical production is a pretty safe bet that said entertainment product will bring the funny; after all, sisters Delia and…
Through a nonlinear twinning of murders—one real and one imagined—Manuel Muñoz explores the way fiction is embedded in human lives
Manuel Muñoz’s first novel, What You See in the Dark, weaves together the stories of two murders, one “real”—that is, it actually takes place in the fictional world of the…
