Michael Taylor

Feb 11, 2025 | chapter16.org | Emily Choate |Sean Kinch |Kim Green |Michael Taylor

When novelist Geraldine Brooks received the devastating phone call informing her that her husband of more than 30 years, celebrated nonfiction writer Tony Horwitz, had died unexpectedly while on tour for his latest book, she found herself trapped between warring impulses. “I paced the room, feeling the howl forming in my chest,” she writes in her new memoir, Memorial Days.

Feb 10, 2025 | chapter16.org | Sara West |Michael Taylor |Liz Garrigan |Maria Browning

Chantha Nguon’s Slow Noodles, released this month in paperback, has been lauded by foodies and book lovers all over the world, landing on Best of 2024 lists by publications like Food & Wine, BookPage, and Elle. This captivating memoir celebrates Nguon’s indomitable spirit as she chronicles her life growing up in Cambodia and her family’s terror-filled years fleeing to Vietnam to escape persecution under Lon Nol, before Year Zero and the terror of the Khmer Rouge.

Jan 29, 2025 | nashvillescene.com | Michael Taylor

On Friday, Judge Justin C. Angel ruled that Thunder Air, a development company of John “Thunder” Thornton, must pay the attorneys of Joey Blevins and the late Ronnie Kennedy $211,345.40 in legal fees. In September, the same judge ruled that Thunder had violated the free speech of both men under the Tennessee Public Participation Act, or TPPA.

Jan 10, 2025 | bmcr.brynmawr.edu | Arthur Pomeroy |David H. Rosenbloom |Michael Taylor

This volume serves as a memorial to Matthew Trundle, who passed away tragically of cancer in 2019 at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a substantial but unfinished scholarly legacy. Most of the contributions by Trundle’s teachers, colleagues, and students were delivered at a memorial conference in 2019. The book also contains a chapter by Trundle himself, recovered from his unfinished book manuscript. Diverse methodological possibilities are on display.

Oct 27, 2024 | chapter16.org | Michael Taylor

Nashville Native Orchids: Astonishing Science and Mysterious Folklore, the first book from orchid specialist Soraya Cates Parr, packs an amazing amount of information within its 168 illustrated pages. The first section provides a readable account of orchid science, history, and myth, as well as the plant’s uses in traditional medicine. This is followed by short chapters about how climate change affects orchids and the close relationship between the plants and certain spiders.