Nice Work
It’s an adage drummed into beginning writers from the hallowed yellow barns of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference to the humblest classroom of the Hardeman County Correctional Facility: write what…
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The Road to No Way
In the 1960s at The New Yorker, John McPhee perfected a style of nonfiction writing which has since built the careers of many staff writers there, including Ian Frazier, Susan…
Worlds Will Collide
David Baldacci. Stuart Woods. Lisa Gardner. Besides churning out at least one thriller a year, all have created a series featuring a particular set of characters, only to move on…
The Longest War
…Pyle’s eyewitness accounts in World War II to the masterful work of Michael Herr and Philip Caputo in Vietnam. Readers tend to trust journalists willing to be shot at in…
Writers’ Work
If anyone ever had a finger on the pulse of Southern literature, that person is Sonny Brewer. The Alabama native is the author of four acclaimed novels and editor of…
Nuanced Noir
In summer 2008, Ace Atkins, author of three previous thrillers based on historical events, was in Memphis researching a new book. While he was at the courthouse one day, a…
