Another space-themed book deal for Margaret Lazarus Dean
April 18, 2016 Astronaut Scott Kelly, whose master’s degree is from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, will write a memoir with Margaret Lazarus Dean, a novelist and nonfiction writer at the same university. The book, Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars, will be published in November 2017.
Jim Ridley—Nashville Scene editor and passionate champion of literature—died on Friday at age fifty
April 10, 2016 Jim Ridley’s love for Middle Tennessee, especially the arts in Middle Tennessee, was innate, lifelong, and absolutely unwavering. His death on April 8, 2016, left a hole this community will never fill.
Vanderbilt MFA candidate Tiana Clark picks up another major award
April 4, 2016 Vanderbilt University M.F.A. candidate Tiana Clark has added another national honor to her extensive CV: Clark’s chapbook, Equilibrium, is the winner of the 2016 Frost Place competition and will be published by Bull City Press in early 2017.
Nashville’s Parnassus Books launches a bookmobile
March 21, 2016 Make room, Nashville food trucks: there’s a new kid in town. Parnassus Books—which took its name from Parnassus on Wheels, a 1917 Christopher Morley novella about a book-selling caravan—has just fulfilled its own destiny by launching a bookstore on wheels.
In The New York Times, Arnold Weinstein makes a persuasive case for literature
March 7, 2016 Literature teaches the skills of clear writing and close reading, the ability to communicate, and the creativity necessary to see beyond the walls of the cubicle’s box. But there’s a value, too, in what literature gives us that has nothing to do with employment skills, and Memphis native Arnold Weinstein made a case for it recently in The New York Times.
Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams have won the 2016 NAACP Image Award
February 29, 2016 Exultant hurrahs and hearty congratulations to Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams, winners of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for an outstanding literary work with an instructional emphasis.
