Rita Lorraine Hubbard shares the remarkable life of Mary Walker, who learned to read at age 116
Author Rita Lorraine Hubbard reminds young readers that they’re “never too old to learn” by telling the extraordinary life story of Chattanooga’s beloved Mary Walker in The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read, illustrated by Oge Mora.
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J.T. Ellison shares some thoughts on social media, literary community, and her latest novel, Good Girls Lie
J.T. Ellison’s fourth stand-alone thriller, Good Girls Lie, unfurls within the gates of Goode Academy, an elite girls’ boarding school in rural Virginia. Ellison talked with Chapter 16 about the setting of her new book, her belief in supporting other writers, and the challenge of staying focused in an age of distraction. She’ll appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 7.
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When is a piano not a piano?
For years, I imagined how much fuller my life would be if I could strike up a tune at a party, if I had the secret knowledge of music that every one of my friends seemed to have acquired. I felt that something was missing, something that made me a bit inferior to everyone I knew.
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On the particular joy of visiting a beloved author’s house
I am drawn to the homes of famous writers like a wayfaring pilgrim on a lifelong literary crusade. Somehow, I manage to talk my patient husband into going along for the ride. But he doesn’t really mind. He has seen what these nerdy excursions mean to me.
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I wanted a bike — I got a chair
I knew what it was instantly. Even shrouded beneath a bedsheet, the shape was undisguisable.
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Book Excerpt: The Light Tears Loose
KB Ballentine’s sixth collection,The Light Tears Loose, appeared in July 2019 with Blue Light Press. Published in Crab Orchard Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, among others, her work also appears in anthologies, including In Plein Air and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace.
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