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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50 Books / HT50, Part 3: 1991-1994
The third installment in our 50 Books / HT50 project features books from the first half of the 1990s, a period that saw the opening of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, a record-breaking blizzard in East Tennessee, and the election of a Tennessean, Al Gore, to the vice presidency.
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Sharon Cameron’s latest YA novel explores the difference between art and artifice
For Artifice, her third young adult novel set during World War II, Nashville author Sharon Cameron paints a colorful and suspenseful thriller inspired by historical heroes and villains living in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Cameron will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 7.
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