Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, discusses the delicate art of writing about war
…Finalist and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, The Yellow Birds has been hailed by a host of literary luminaries as an instant classic. Ann Patchett called it…
50 Books / HT50, Part 3: 1991-1994
The third installment in our 50 Books / HT50 project features books from the first half of the 1990s, a period that saw the opening of the Tennessee Aquarium in…
Michael Connelly discusses his popular detective series, his journalism background, and the future of the book
…an interview with Chapter 16, Connelly describes the latest Bosch installment, Nine Dragons, and bemoans the slow death of local newspapers. He also discusses his prodigious output, electronic books, and…
Ace Atkins pens his tenth installment in an iconic detective series
“I keep extensive records of my favorite cases,” Spenser tells a waterfront criminal in Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby, the tenth novel Mississippi-based writer Ace Atkins has penned in…
Campbell Hale investigates the case of the missing socialite
Gone Missin’ is the second installment in Peggy O’Neal Peden’s Nashville mystery series. While her debut, Your Killin’ Heart, centered on the city’s music scene, Gone Missin’ focuses on Nashville’s…
Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is an elegy and a call to action
…instance, the third chapter, “White Theft,” is formulated as a letter to Breonna Taylor. Dyson interweaves the history of American slavery, highlighting the manner in which the vestiges of this…
