A new story collection by Lorrie Moore, who recently moved to Nashville, is always a Big Event in literary fiction
…2014.] Susannah Felts is a writer, editor, and educator in Nashville, as well as co-founder of The Porch Writers’ Collective, a nonprofit literary center. She is the author of This…
Tracy Moore’s new pregnancy guide is an irreverent, hilarious look at modern parenthood
With chapter headings like “If Your Friends and Family Start Acting Like Dramatic Weirdos” and “How to Eat All the Stuff You Aren’t Supposed To,” there’s no mistaking Tracy Moore’s…
Jody Casella’s debut novel is a convincing portrayal of a young man’s staggering loss—of both sibling and self
Trauma can make a person do strange things, take desperate measures to find bearings in a world that has been turned upside down. Marsh Windsor, the teen protagonist of Jody…
Acclaimed novelist Maile Meloy talks with Chapter 16 about why she turned to fiction for children
It’s not terribly unusual for writers of fiction for adults to try their hands at children’s literature, often with great success. That’s just what Maile Meloy, prizewinning author of two…
Scott McClanahan’s Crapalachia is not like any other mountain memoir you’ve read
In the received narrative, Appalachia is a hardscrabble place, but it’s also a place full of capital-C characters. Scott McClanahan, having left West Virginia and returned, knows this story well—as…
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, Anton DiSclafanii’s debut novel, captures the swirl of impulses in a 1930s teenager at odds with her age
A “nasty girl with nasty thoughts,” a “wrong girl if there ever was one,” and “strangely powerful”: these are some of the ways Thea Atwell, the narrator of Anton DiSclafani’s…
