In a new memoir, Steve Dorff collects tales from a life devoted to song
Songwriter and composer Steve Dorff’s new memoir, I Wrote That One, Too… A Life in Songwriting from Willie to Whitney, tells stories of creativity, encounters with stars, and lessons from a colorful life.
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In We Are All Shipwrecks, Kelly Grey Carlisle writes about her eccentric family and the legacy of a violent crime
In her memoir, We Are All Shipwrecks, Sewanee alumna Kelly Grey Carlisle delivers an often bleak story with skillful tenderness. In the process she explores the power and limitations of love.
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Surviving a fall in the Colorado high country
Solo climbing in the Rockies violates every rule of mountain safety, particularly on a route I picked myself. But that’s the way I liked to do it, and had done it all my life. What happened on Mt. Yale should have been a cautionary tale, but some things are too good to give up.
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The Proffitts of Ridgewood is a look at one of the most beloved restaurants in the Southeast
In The Proffitts of Ridgewood, Fred W. Sauceman tells the story of his favorite barbecue joint and the Appalachian family behind it.
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Rhonda Rucker discusses her new picture book, Make a Change, about a slice of Knoxville history
In her new picture book, written with help from her husband, Sparky, Maryville children’s author Rhonda Rucker tells a story of peaceful protest in segregation-era Knoxville.
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Kerri Maniscalco delivers monstrous thrills in her latest Victorian-era YA novel
Knoxville YA novelist Kerri Maniscalco has crafted another taut tale of an independent heroine and her partner, this time in nineteenth-century Romania. Hunting Prince Dracula is filled with unexpected twists and turns, playful romantic banter, red herrings, and monstrous surprises.
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