Ray Trotter’s short story collection of Southern gems shines
Ray Trotter assembles a stylized, bite-sized, pure personality of a debut short story collection, And Dogs to Chase Them, exploring the quirks and nuances of rural Southern living.
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Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, discusses the delicate art of writing about war
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: A National Book Award Finalist and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, The Yellow Birds by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers has been hailed by a host of literary luminaries as an instant classic. Written in lyrical prose that veers between terse understatement and vivid figurative language, The Yellow Birds is a rich literary experience as well as a harrowing narrative about the effects of war on both soldiers and families.
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Remembering Arthur Smith (1948-2018)
Arthur Smith came to Knoxville from central California, by way of Houston, Texas, and for more than 30 years he helped poets at the University of Tennessee find the path toward their own voices. His friend and fellow poet Jesse Graves remembers Smith on the fifth anniversary of his death.
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The psychology of deception takes center stage in R.J. Jacobs’ new thriller
R.J. Jacobs’ This Is How We End Things delivers a twisting, turning grad school murder mystery.
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V.E. Schwab on her new fantasy series and whether she’s a Southern writer
Nashville native V.E. Schwab talks with Chapter 16 about The Fragile Threads of Power, the first novel in a new trilogy that returns readers to the Four Londons of her Shades of Magic series.
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Jim Minick captures the human drama of a deadly F5 tornado in Without Warning
Jim Minick’s Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas offers a gripping nonfiction narrative of the deadliest tornado in Kansas history. Minick will speak at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City on November 15.
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