Inaugural poet Richard Blanco talks with Chapter 16 about his new memoir
…for my abuela. Through the process of writing, I was able to unearth many more emotional layers, and also discover a deeper understanding of my grandmother, who was far more…
In East Nashville, Her Bookshop and Atomic Nashville offer two new buy-local options
…John Lewis’s graphic memoir, but I also picked up a copy of a bestselling conventional memoir, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Atomic also stocks all-local music and art, and it’s here…
Book excerpt: City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and The First Police Chief of Paris
…under their cloaks, thieves became bolder. Parisians looking to protect their homes raced to buy handguns, making the city all the more unsafe. In response to the rising violence, the…
In Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Heat and Light, energy companies choose profits over safety
…understand that dealing with gas companies entails a Faustian bargain: they are willing to accept inconvenience and noise, and a degree of environmental damage, in exchange for a financial windfall….
In Sweet Nothing, mystery writer Richard Lange draws terse poetry from the lives of downtrodden Angelinos
“You have to lose eventually so that someone else can win. Bitch and moan all you want, but that’s the first, and worst, rule of the universe.” These words—spoken by…
Kelly Corrigan’s third memoir, Glitter and Glue, is a poignant tale of learning to love her mother
Growing up, Kelly Corrigan relied on her dad’s unwavering enthusiasm but navigated an “adversarial but functional” way of being with her mother, who “looked at motherhood less as a joy…
