The Self Without Boundary
In What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life, celebrated poet and memoirist Mark Doty explores the life and prophetic influence of Walt Whitman.
Monsters, Murders, and Midlife
In his latest horror-comedy mashup, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix plumbs vampire legends and suburban expectations to create an original, terrifying, and inexplicably heartwarming tale.
To Celebrate Being Alive
In Dailiness: Essays on Poetry, Mark Jarman considers canonical and contemporary writers while reflecting on the kinship of prayers and poems.
A Sense of the Possible
Celebrated poet Jane Hirshfield talks with Chapter 16 about her new poetry collection, The Beauty, and her new essay collection, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World.
Stories, Not Politics
In his latest book, Rebuilding an Enlightened World: Folklorizing America, Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, addresses the moral failings of the U.S. and offers ideas for how to create a better world.
The Fallout of Disaster
Vanderbilt University visiting nonfiction writer Joy Castro talks with Chapter 16 about language, the #MeToo movement, and behaving badly in fiction. She will give a free public reading at Vanderbilt on January 25.
