Min Jin Lee discusses identity, diaspora, and resistance in her novel Pachinko
Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, follows a Korean family through four generations of migration, hardship, and survival, telling their interlocking stories in vivid detail.
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Julia Watts’s new novel for teens finds room for friendship in the so-called culture wars
Quiver, Julia Watts’s new novel for teens, is a story of acceptance against all odds.
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In Lorraine, Ketch Secor and Higgins Bond spin a tale about the power of music
Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor and illustrator Higgins Bond discuss their new picture book, Lorraine.
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Wayétu Moore talks with Chapter 16 about her debut novel, She Would Be King
Wayétu Moore stopped by Memphis last month to see some of her relatives. Born in Liberia, Moore spent part of her childhood in the Bluff City before her family moved to Texas. Today she talks with Chapter 16 about her work as a novelist.
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Poet Jesse Graves interviews literary Renaissance man David Madden
Knoxville native and literary polymath David Madden talks about his early influences, the writers he finds essential, and the importance of technique in creative writing.
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Daniel Brook chronicles the shifting status of mixed-race elites in the 19th-century South
In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook tells the revealing story of the mixed-race elite in Charleston and New Orleans during the 19th century. Brook will appear at Novel in Memphis on June 27 at 6:00 p.m.
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