Find the Healers | Chapter 16
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on March 24, 2025. *** Almost two years ago, Yolanda Pierce moved to Nashville to become dean…| chapter16.org
Charles Wright, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner, visited East Tennessee State University on October 25, 2017, to read his poems and meet our students and community here in Johnson City. This had been a dream of mine since I met Charles at the University of Tennessee, when I was a graduate student, and… The post “I Can’t Tell a Story” first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
A brief poem called “Lost Place” appears as the prologue to All These Ghosts, the first full-length poetry collection from former Kentucky poet laureate Silas House. This poem’s speaker approaches the past with a sense of mystery but also insists that this present moment in time be understood. “I recall the wild places, fecund, rich.… The post Poems for the Timesick first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
To call someone a hothouse flower is to say they are particularly fragile and sensitive. They might need to be sheltered in a controlled environment since suboptimal conditions threaten their ability to thrive — or even to survive. In her debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, Atlanta native Austyn Wohlers complicates the typically pejorative term by choosing… The post A Certain Way of Living first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
In The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, author Susan Gregg Gilmore sets the story of 12-year-old Leonard in rural Sweetwater, Tennessee, 1961. Leonard had his infected left leg amputated after stepping on a piece of glass while wading in the nearby Big Sugar River, and the novel opens as the leg is given the “proper… The post No Science to Explain It first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
A fictionalized version of Alfred Hitchcock appears on the first page of Meg Waite Clayton’s latest novel, setting an appropriately eerie and atmospheric tone. Typewriter Beach revels in the morally gray areas of movies — and of life. In 1957, a young actress is sent to Carmel-by-the-Sea, an idyllic California beach town, but Isabella Giori’s… The post So Old Hollywood first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on March 24, 2025. *** Almost two years ago, Yolanda Pierce moved to Nashville to become dean…| chapter16.org
In the preface to Ali: A Life, Jonathan Eig creates three snapshots from the night before the February 1964 heavyweight-championship fight between Cassius Clay…| chapter16.org
A reader gets a straight shot of Cheryl McKissack Daniel’s bravado in the title of her memoir, The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers. The McKissacks’ design and construction work may not cover the entire country, but the family’s building businesses have both a venerable history and a vital… The post A Legacy in Bricks and Steel first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
Sometimes a debut shouts, insisting: “I’m new, I’m here, and I’m something to behold!” Other debuts enter the scene as if they’ve always been there, quietly confident and wondering what took y’all so long to see them. Carrie R. Moore’s debut, Make Your Way Home, is a collection of 11 stories so assured readers might… The post A Sense of Place first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on June 23, 2o23. *** Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World, the second book from Sewanee-based writer Patrick Dean, relates the history of a little-known man and his greatest achievement. It’s a formula Dean mastered in his 2021 book, A Window… The post An Enlightened Message first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on May 15, 2023. The post has been updated with new publication and event information. *** It…| chapter16.org
We were never good yard people, learning about tree diseases and insect infestations only when it was too late and the county extension agent explained that th…| chapter16.org
Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun The poems in Stephanie Niu’s debut collection, I Would Define the Sun, revel in expansive spaces of mystery: the …| chapter16.org
Once, heading back to Memphis after Christmas break, I sat next to a boy my age on a connecting flight from Minneapolis. We acknowledged each other with a curt…| chapter16.org
The Promise Land Community in Dickson County, Tennessee, was established after the Civil War by formerly enslaved men and women who sought to establish a new l…| chapter16.org
In her memoir Otherwise, I’m Fine, Barbara Presnell finds the path to reconciliation as she follows her father’s footsteps during World War II. When she…| chapter16.org
In Kerry Madden-Lunsford’s middle-grade novel Werewolf Hamlet, something terrible is happening to Angus Gettlefinger’s 17-year-old brother, Liam. He’s tu…| chapter16.org
