Jill McCorkle’s Hieroglyphics explores the intricate passages of memory, time, and love
…whole from many parts. Revelations about all the characters arrive slowly, finally reaching a conclusion that is fully satisfying, as soaked in love and sorrow as every human life. …
Three Appalachian women tell their stories in Voices Worth the Listening
…Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the Danish prince remarks, “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! … you would pluck out the heart of my mystery.”…
A Nashville journalist maps a Syrian-American restaurateur’s moving journey to Hendersonville
…Guy Fieri. The real-life characters depicted by author Jordan Ritter Conn are, it turns out, as discordant as the values and the people that earnest young Syrian immigrant Riyad Alkasem…
The 2020 Southern Festival of Books takes its stellar roster of authors online
…advocates essential changes in the publishing industry. His latest novel Not So Pure and Simple his first contemporary coming-of-age story. RUTA SEPETYS– an internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling…
Comic artist Gene Luen Yang talks with Chapter 16 about getting graphic in school
…email. Chapter 16: You’ve said that your love of comics began with Superman. What was it about Superman specifically that sold you on graphic storytelling? Gene Yang: My very first…
In Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Wanting Radiance, a daughter searches for her own buried origins
…Willy’s Wonderama, Miracelle hears a haunting instruction: “If you want to know who you are, you might just find a clue here you can use.” In her job as “wonder-finder,”…
