August 9, 2012 Knoxville novelist Christopher Hebert has been having a hot summer—in the best way possible. His debut novel, The Boiling Season, has been well received among critics and readers alike, and now Fiction Writers Review has caught on, recently publishing an interview with Hebert and choosing The Boiling Season as their Book of the Week.
August 7, 2012 Native Nashvillian Madison Smartt Bell, a prolific writer and finalist for awards such as the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, among others, is no stranger to the troubled nature of the human heart. While his subjects range widely—from wartime Deep South to 9/11 New York City to Haiti in the midst of revolution—his philosophical focus on darker characters lying on the fringe of society has become a well-known and highly lauded trademark in his writing.
August 2, 2012 Charlotte Pence, a Chapter 16 contributor who received her Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Tennessee, has been busy lately.
July 30, 2012 Marilyn Kallet, English professor and director of the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has made yet another splash in the poetry world. Kallet has written fifteen books, and her works continue to be circulated regularly throughout various poetry websites and publications.
July 25, 2012 Novelist Margaret Lazarus Dean may teach in a college English department—she’s an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville—but her passion is as much for outer space as for literature. In fact, her debut novel The Time It Takes To Fall, centers largely on the NASA space-shuttle program. A lifelong enthusiast of space travel, Dean now writes a column for The Huffington Post about the intersection of space and creativity.
July 18, 2012 Alice Randall’s new book Ada’s Rules, part novel, part autobiography, and part self-help book, continues to generate new discussion and appeal as the summer goes on. Ada’s Rules is the fourth novel from the songwriter and writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, and it has been met with an enthusiastic reception among readers and critics alike.
