June 13, 2022
Editor's Note
Save the date! The 2022 Southern Festival of Books is still a few months away, but Humanities Tennessee will be offering a glimpse of this year's author lineup at a reveal party on July 7. The in-person gathering will be held at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, with the announcement portion livestreamed on Facebook. The event is free, but attendees are asked to register in advance. 

Today at Chapter 16, Jane Marcellus reviews Neema Avashia's memoir Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. Hers is not the typical story of an Appalachian upbringing, but as Avashia writes, "I, too, am a daughter of the mountains."

Last week at the site, we revisited a poem from Stephanie McCarley Dugger's Either Way, You're Done; Emily Choate reviewed Luke Manget's history of the Appalachian root and herb trade, Ginseng Diggers; Bradley Sides celebrated the value of stories in his essay "Shareable Treasures"; and Fernanda Moore reviewed Tom Perrotta's latest novel, Tracy Flick Can't Win.
Recently at Chapter 16
Review
Neema Avashia explores community and identity in the South and beyond    
Poem
Book Excerpt: Either Way, You’re Done
Review
Ginseng Diggers traces the history of Appalachia’s root and herb trade    
Essay
There is no better gift than a story    
Review
Tom Perrotta delivers up-to-the-minute satire in Tracy Flick Can’t Win  
News Roundup


  • Two poems by Corey Mesler were published in the latest issue of Canyon Voices.

  • Andrew Maraniss discussed the history of homophobia in professional baseball with NPR's All Things Considered.

  • Silas House received the 2022 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from Lambda Literary.
Coming Up at Chapter 16
  • Jesse Graves' interview with Museum of Appalachia founder John Rice Irwin

  • "Big Man on Campus," Michael Ray Taylor's remembrance of James Dickey as a teacher

  • David Dark's review of God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism by Barry Hankins

  • FROM THE ARCHIVE: Aram Goudsouzian's review of Blind Spot by Teju Cole

  • Chris Moody's Q&A with Brandon Taylor re Filthy Animals