Rinker Buck navigates turbulent swells and history in Life on the Mississippi
When Rinker Buck, the Tennessee-based author of Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure, told his brother that he planned to build a flatboat and float it down the…
Aram Goudsouzian talks with Chapter 16 about a new graphic history on James Meredith
…with editorial cartoonist Bill Murray and editor Vijay Shah, he’s written a powerful narrative in pages that visually capture the gritty, dangerous feel of the Deep South at the height…
James Dickey in the classroom
…rough leather jacket with fringes, jeans, a chambray shirt open at the neck, and some sort of pendant worn on a leather cord. His stained slouch hat could have been…
Michael Connelly discusses his popular detective series, his journalism background, and the future of the book
…young writers coming down the pike. Michael Koryta, Michael Lister, Denise Mina among them. I actually don’t know how old these writers are. I consider them young because to me…
Reporter Dan Chapman retraces John Muir’s 1867 trek through the South
In September 1867, when John Muir was not yet 30, the future founder of the Sierra Club set off from Louisville on a long trek through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina,…
Gordon Van Ness discusses the complex legacy of poet James Dickey
James Dickey may be best known for his 1970 novel Deliverance and its 1972 film adaptation, for which he wrote the screenplay and in which he played the role of…
