Jeff Kinney talks with Chapter 16 about his megahit series of children’s books that began with Diary of a Wimpy Kid
…failed cartoonist because I never achieved the goal I set out to achieve: to break into the comics page of the newspaper. I’ll never feel like I’m a “real” cartoonist…
Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies
…than a job. Anderson lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and he takes to the mountains like a lover, following his heart into the primal remnants of old-growth yellow poplar, along…
In East Nashville, Her Bookshop and Atomic Nashville offer two new buy-local options
…John Lewis’s graphic memoir, but I also picked up a copy of a bestselling conventional memoir, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Atomic also stocks all-local music and art, and it’s here…
In Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Heat and Light, energy companies choose profits over safety
…Heat and Light, addresses the calamity of fracking. Though Haigh makes it clear from the start that energy exploration inevitably carries environmental costs, she fills her novel with characters who…
Kelly Corrigan’s third memoir, Glitter and Glue, is a poignant tale of learning to love her mother
Growing up, Kelly Corrigan relied on her dad’s unwavering enthusiasm but navigated an “adversarial but functional” way of being with her mother, who “looked at motherhood less as a joy…
