North Knoxville’s Tim “Swanky” Glazner is one of the nation’s leading experts on tiki. How does a former punk rocker become an authority on the Polynesian pop-culture trend that consumed …
Q&A: Novelist Chris Hebert
There are dozens of characters in Chris Hebert’s new novel, Angels of Detroit (Bloomsbury): activists, executives, the working poor, the dispossessed. Ultimately, though, the city itself—its crumbling civic infrastructure, its …
R.B. Morris Named Knoxville’s First Official Poet Laureate
Even before Mayor Rogero made the announcement last week, many of us figured R.B. Morris was already Knoxville’s poet laureate. Morris has been an advocate of poetry in Knoxville for …
Q&A: True-Crime Writer Sasha Reynolds
What happened to Michelle Anderson? To some extent, that’s still a mystery nearly 30 years after the 15-year-old disappeared from North Knoxville. In 1989, nearly two years after her disappearance, …
Q&A: Author Erik Larson
Erik Larson is one of the best-selling nonfiction authors of the last 20 years. The writer of several long, novel-like books of footnoted history—notably The Devil in the White City, …