Ward Raymond
The Art and Craft of Bookbinding
Sometimes it’s perfect. Sometimes it’s punch-and-bind, fastback, or even limp vellum. What? We’re talking bookbinding types, of course. Bookbinding as an art form and a practical craft has proliferated over the the past 1500 years in the western ... more »
Aug 31, 2016 12:43 PM Features
State of the Arts 2016: Brit Sigh
Robots sitting. Robots posing. Robots lounging around. Robots holding...light bulbs? Who doesn’t love a cute robot? When Brit Sigh was a kid, he was a big fan of the Short Circuit movies. Today, this multitalented artist makes fantastical ... more »
Aug 17, 2016 1:05 PM Cover Story
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
If only love can break your heart, then it must be a corollary truth that only a great, doomed first love can stand out above a landscape of broken-heartedness. Tennessean Ed Tarkington, a long-respected English teacher ... more »
Jun 8, 2016 12:35 PM Features
A Thousand And One Musical Nights
Scheherazade wants the nights to never end. If the mad king Shahryar loses interest in the romantic stories Scheherazade tells, he will have her beheaded at dawn, as he has done to 1,000 other brides. more »
Apr 27, 2016 2:28 PM Features
Inside One Of History's Forgotten Nightmares
Unspeakable murders. A marriage gone flat. Illegal rotgut whiskey. Two infernal revenuers, one with a heart of gold. A lost baby, orphaned and bereft in the coming storm ... more »
Mar 16, 2016 11:19 AM Features
Far From The Maddening Art Lecture
Belly up to the…art gallery? Thursday, Nov. 19 at 6 p.m., the Hunter Museum offers an event titled “Cocktails in Color” that curator Adera Causey promises to be a thought-provoking and entertaining ... more »
Nov 18, 2015 12:12 PM Features
Burnt Cork And Burnt Friendship
Humans have acted violently toward members of other tribes since time immemorial. “A Free State,” the passionate new novel by Tom Piazza about a fugitive slave, orchestrates themes of violence, entrapment ... more »
Oct 28, 2015 4:05 PM Features
Rocking With Rachmaninoff
At the age of 20, Man-Ling Bai is an emerging superstar in a highly competitive field—virtuoso piano solo performance. Your chance to hear her in an intimate setting, the showroom of Summitt Pianos on Lee Highway, comes this ... more »
Sep 30, 2015 1:37 PM Features
Kayoko At The Bat (on)
The tempo is picking up as Opening Day approaches. Team managers are looking over their lineup cards for the coming season and making notes on the score book. The brass in the front office are checking out the roster ... more »
Sep 9, 2015 11:57 AM Cover Story
Turning The Page
At age 63, an old dog isn’t thinking about new tricks, but the Southern Lit Alliance is feeling frisky as a pup off the leash, bringing readers and writers together with bold new programs for 2016 and broader outreach than ever before. more »
Aug 12, 2015 12:58 PM Cover Story
It Is A Wise Child That Knows His Own Father
At some point, every boy sees his father as a larger-than-life hero, or possibly a villain, or maybe one of those bold, eccentric character actors from the grainy movie that is everyone’s childhood, playing over in one’s mind ... more »
Jun 17, 2015 4:11 PM Features
Lots of New Ways of Looking at Books
Sometimes a book is just a book. But that can’t be said of the artist books on display through June 28 at the Public Library downtown. In an explosion of compelling creativity, “Renaissance” presents about 40 pieces ... more »
May 27, 2015 4:47 PM Features
All Serious Daring Starts From Within
History may be written by the victors—but literature is the province of the South. The next four days in Chattanooga bear out that unconventional wisdom, as dozens of renowned Southern writers descend on ... more »
Apr 16, 2015 10:49 AM Cover Story
Seek Out the Source That Shines Forever
The revelation of the divine in our own lives, as well as in the natural world around us, defines the quest of Andrew Harvey, sacred activist and philosopher who will present “An Evening with Rumi” on Friday, April 10 ... more »
Apr 1, 2015 5:11 PM Features
From Femme Fatale Carmen to That Pesky Wabbit
Starving artists. A fearsome warship named for a girl’s frock. A twagical wabbit. The Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and special guests combine elements of all these—and so much more ... more »
Mar 11, 2015 4:48 PM Features
Southern Literature Needs You!
The Southern Lit Alliance wants to book you for a volunteer job. During the Celebration of Southern Literature in mid-April, local bibliophiles are needed to check tickets, sell books, drive authors around ... more »
Mar 4, 2015 4:31 PM News & Notes
Raise Your Glass and Your IQ
What kind of beer would a reader of Clyde Edgerton prefer? How about a fan of Katori Hall? Roy Blount Jr.? Natasha Trethewey? more »
Jan 7, 2015 5:18 PM Features
’Night, Mother
The failing heartbeat of a dying mother resonates as the saddest sound in human experience. The Faulkes Chronicle tells the story of an American family whose mother is dying, whose beloved life leaches away like the color fading... more »
Aug 28, 2014 12:00 AM Features
Journey of Vengeance and Redemption
On any given summer day in the tropical South, temperatures melted candles inside houses, and tiny dragons hatched in bags of rice in kitchen cupboards. more »
Jul 17, 2014 12:00 AM Features