Wayétu Moore talks with Chapter 16 about her debut novel, She Would Be King
Wayétu Moore stopped by Memphis last month to see some of her relatives. Born in Liberia, Moore spent part of her childhood in the Bluff City before her family moved to Texas. Today she talks with Chapter 16 about her work as a novelist.
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Book Excerpt: Migration
Cynthia Robinson Young’s work has appeared in Sojourners, Poetry South, The Ekphrastic Review, and Catalpa: a magazine of Southern perspectives, among other journals and anthologies. She is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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Ace Atkins mixes populist politics, crime podcasts, and a rapping Choctaw hit man in The Shameless
Ace Atkins’ The Shameless keeps the Quinn Colson series fresh with New York podcasters, a populist politician, and a pair of Native American hit men. Atkins will appear at Novel in Memphis on July 10 and at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on July 17.
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Secrets affect three generations of a family in Bethlehem
A wife finds that her husband’s family mansion contains old secrets and new temptations in Karen Kelly’s Bethlehem.
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Poet Jesse Graves interviews literary Renaissance man David Madden
Knoxville native and literary polymath David Madden talks about his early influences, the writers he finds essential, and the importance of technique in creative writing.
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Book Excerpt: Solstice to Solstice to Solstice
Former Murfreesboro resident Allison Boyd Justus has worked for Tennessee’s community colleges and public schools as a library assistant, a teacher of English-language learners, and a teacher of intellectually gifted students.
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