The characters in John Brandon’s Further Joy live in Florida’s nowhere towns
…collection reveals a writer of broad talent who is confident in his craft and daring in his vision. Sean Kinch grew up in Austin and attended Stanford University as an…
Robin Layton’s photographs capture the origins of basketball dreams
A regulation basketball hoop is a metal circle measuring eighteen inches in diameter. To a basketball player, the rim possesses a simple perfection that requires no elaboration. It represents a…
Prior to her Memphis appearance, Shakespearean scholar Marjorie Garber talks with Chapter 16 about the pleasures of reading and the value of the humanities
According to Marjorie Garber, the way we read Shakespeare’s plays tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the Bard himself. Garber’s books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare and…
In Bill Cotter’s Parallel Apartments, a cast of outcasts and misfits attempt to re-assemble their lives
Marcia Brodsky, a supporting character in Bill Cotter’s new novel, Parallel Apartments, has trouble with money and an unhealthy obsession with sex. She has accumulated $400,000 of credit-card debt, and…
In Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc., African deities become pawns in the global market
Ikechuka Uzonda, the protagonist of Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc., faces problems everywhere he turns. A Nigerian who won a scholarship to Amherst, Ike’s accent has barred him from entering…
In his new novel, Want Not, Jonathan Miles digs through the garbage
Novelist Jonathan Miles can take the dreariest topics and turn them into humor. He demonstrated this Midas touch for comedy in his debut novel, Dear American Airlines, in which a…
