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Twenty Million and Counting

Karen Kingsbury talks with Chapter 16 about Loving, the concluding novel in her wildly popular Bailey Flanigan series

…million books in print and boasts a quarter of a million Facebook fans who look forward to her latest series installments, stand-alone titles, and children’s books. Her newest offering, Loving,…

Ecstasy in the Knowing

Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone’s exploration of the funky world of fungi, reveals the beauty and interconnectedness of all life

Eugenia Bone’s Mycophilia is the perfect “did-you-know” book. For instance, did you know that the largest single living organism on the planet is a fungus? Located in the Blue Mountains…

The Royal Navy Confronts the Privateer Problem

In Dewey Lambdin’s latest installment of the Alan Lewrie series, it’s 1805, and Captain Lewrie prowls the coastline of the American Southeast in search of French and Spanish privateers

In Dewey Lambdin’s Reefs and Shoals, Captain Alan Lewrie leaves the warm bed of his latest mistress to take his frigate, the Reliant, from Portsmouth across the stormy North Atlantic…

A License to Lie

Internationally acclaimed South African poet Antjie Krog talks with Chapter 16 about the essential instability of the first-person voice

Internationally acclaimed journalist, poet, and playwright Antjie Krog was born into a family of Afrikaner writers and grew up on a farm within a conservative Afrikaans-speaking community. She published her…

Considering the "Faulkner of Tennessee"

The Millions posts retrospective of the career of William Gay

…heart from the stories of novelists whose first books were rejected by literary agents an outrageous number of times before finally being published and shooting instantly to the top of…

Ancient Music

In Alex Bledsoe’s latest novel, a Smoky Mountain clan protects its way of life one song at a time

…and reality, The Hum and the Shiver captures the subtle magic of childhood’s landscape, the pull of desire against destiny, and the way life can turn in an instant, suddenly…

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