A Nashville journalist maps a Syrian-American restaurateur’s moving journey to Hendersonville
…own people more closely than they did foreign enemies. … Protests had been banned since 1963.” Once in America, education took a back seat while Riyad earned enough money simply…
The 2020 Southern Festival of Books takes its stellar roster of authors online
…the Festival has transitioned to a virtual format to preserve the health and safety of attendees, authors, volunteers, and partners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The online format brings the Festival…
Comic artist Gene Luen Yang talks with Chapter 16 about getting graphic in school
…nerd, but it’s also a story about empathy and understanding. What inspired this idea? Yang: Gordon meets the alien when the alien’s spaceship gets stuck in his nose. That was…
In Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Wanting Radiance, a daughter searches for her own buried origins
…heart of Karen Salyer McElmurray’s novel Wanting Radiance. But when we meet Miracelle, she’s been living the skeptic’s life for years. After 15-year-old Miracelle came home to find Ruby murdered,…
Say Nothing weaves the unsolved case of a disappeared Belfast mother into a history of the Troubles
…abduction, as recalled by her children, was the housing block’s uncanny emptiness, “almost as if the area had been cleared.” A crueler detail was the neighbors’ seeming indifference, even hostility,…
Susan Choi sets her novel Trust Exercise at the intersection of fact and fiction
…social world has been almost completely upended, due in part to the machinations of their Theatre Arts teacher, Mr. Kingsley, the aptly named puppet-master of the CAPA universe. “Mr. Kingsley…
