Corey Mesler shares a few thoughts on antiheroes, privacy, and prolificity By Maria Browning, for Chapter16.org The titular protagonist of Corey Mesler’s latest novel, The Diminishment…
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Category: Author Interviews
SB 30 Episode 66: Writing historical fiction, with Memphis author Susan Cushman
Her new novel John and Mary Margaret captures important chapters in Mid-South civil rights history “My characters meet at Ole Miss, when there were very…
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Novel at Home Presents: Memphis Author Susan Cushman
In conversation with Jeffrey Blount for a live online book launch for John and Mary Margaret Friday, June 4 at 6:00pm Join us online as…
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Seeing Yourself in the Story
Heather Truett on her debut novel and bringing more neurodivergent voices to publishing By Sara Beth West for Chapter16.org Heather Truett’s debut young adult novel, Kiss…
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Magic, Madness, Mystery, Magnificence
W. Ralph Eubanks explores the literary tradition in Mississippi By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org For a state with relatively few people, Mississippi has produced some of…
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Place Justice
Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin talks with Chapter 16 about nurturing Black-affirming spaces By Davis Shoulders, for Chapter16.org Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin is a researcher, cultural worker, and lecturer at…
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SB 30 Episode 65: An unimaginable childhood, and path to recovery, with author Angie Howard
“I grew up in a one-traffic-light Mississippi town, a place of innocence and nostalgia that never reached my door. A cotton-top little girl, I was…
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Whose Hot Chicken Is It Anyway?
A historian weaves the story of Nashville hot chicken with a chronicle of race and real estate By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org In the introduction…
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A Park for the People
Brooks Lamb tells the history of Overton Park through the eyes of Memphians Originally published by Chapter16 February 21, 2019 By Aram Goudsouzian, for Chapter16.org…
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Not as Different as We Think
Elizabeth Passarella on being a “muddled mashup of everything” By Sara Beth West, for Chapter16.org Raised in a conservative corner of Memphis, Elizabeth Passarella now…
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