Scholar Sam B. Girgus considers the cinema of redemption
What do Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, and Michaelangelo Antonini’s L’avventura have in common—apart from being uncontestable classics of the…
Jeannette Walls talks with Chapter 16 about writing a bestselling memoir and a bestselling novel
Dorothy Allison, grand dame of Southern storytelling, once said that while everyone may have a story to tell, “most people shouldn’t try to write it.” This advice might sound harsh,…
Algonquin’s new collection inspires a troublesome question: is Southern literature going the way of the slamming screen door?
In her Chapter 16 review of the 2009 volume of New Stories from the South, Maria Browning notes that Southern literature must “be understood as something more than a collection…
In his new novel, David Madden explores the psychological consequences of witnessing a terrible crime
On a bleak winter’s day in the Thousand Islands region of New York, Carol Seaborg is visiting a lakeside lighthouse with her six-year-old child when she sees an older woman…
Graphic novelist Scott Christian Sava has ten million readers to keep happy every day
In the beginning, there was Spider-Man. As a boy, Scott Christian Sava loved Spider-Man comics, and though that obsession gave way in time to Conan the Barbarian, the Narnia books,…
Siori Koerner’s letter to J.D. Salinger wins the Murfreesboro eighth-grader top honors in the Letters About Literature contest
Where I’m from, people know me as the ‘weird girl’—I’m not into the latest trends in pop culture, and I’m not bubbly and air-headed; nor am I the dark, angsty…
