Discussions with authors, lecturers, and other speakers coming to Knoxville.

• Q&A: Food Writer Francis Lam Published 5/15/2013 at 10:27 a.m. 0 comments

  In this era where everyone who Instagrams his lunch and posts it on Tumblr fancies himself a food writer, Francis Lam is the real deal.

• Q&A: Designer Paulie Gibson, Appearing at Knoxville Fashion Week Published 4/24/2013 at 11:14 a.m. 0 comments

  Paulie Gibson is an up-and-coming St. Louis based designer of think-out-of-the-box men’s fashion. His work will be featured during Knoxville Fashion Week.

• Q&A: Former Teen Heartthrob and Evangelical Speaker Kirk Cameron Published 4/17/2013 at 1:57 p.m. 0 comments

  There was a time—before Justin Bieber, before Zac Efron, before even the New Kids on the Block—where one teen heartthrob towered o'er all the rest, ruling the hearts of prepubescent girls with a twinkle in his eye and a winsome ...

• Q&A: Jamie Satterfield, Investigative Reporter Published 4/3/2013 at 9:17 a.m. 0 comments

  Print reporters don’t usually have the cult of personality surrounding them that television reporters do. No one knows what we look like, for one, and most readers don’t even bother to pay attention to bylines. Jamie Satterfield, however, is not ...

• Q&A: The Lee Bros., Authors of 'The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen' Published 3/27/2013 at 10:41 a.m. 0 comments

  Matt and Ted Lee are almost accidental food celebrities. A winter craving for boiled peanuts in New York City in the 1990s turned into a mail-order company, which turned into a lot of travel-writing assignments, which has turned into three ...

• Q&A: Cartoonist Gene Yang Published 2/27/2013 at 1:43 p.m. 0 comments

  Gene Yang, who has been writing and drawing comics since the mid-1990s, is best known for the 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese, about a first-generation Chinese-American teenager and his difficulty coming to terms with junior high school. American Born ...

• Q&A: Essayist and Undertaker Thomas Lynch Published 2/6/2013 at 10:59 a.m. 0 comments

  Thomas Lynch is a poet, an essayist, a memoirist, and a fiction writer. He is also a funeral director.

• Q&A: Fox News Commentator Greg Gutfeld Published 11/28/2012 at 10:59 a.m. 4 comments

  Fox News host Greg Gutfeld’s coming to town to promote his new book, The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph Over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage, which claims that the left pretends to be tolerant but isn’t—at least ...

• Q&A: Novelist Adam Johnson Published 10/24/2012 at 10:23 a.m. 0 comments

  Johnson is a professor at Stanford whose previous works—the short-story collection Emporium and the 2003 novel Parasites Like Us—have tended toward the fantastic. His new novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, is no less fantastic, all the more so for its ...

• Q&A: Climber and Activist Alan Arnette Published 10/3/2012 at 4:14 p.m. 0 comments

  Not long after Alan Arnette started climbing mountains, his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. After she died, in 2009, the technology executive set out on his most ambitious climbing adventure, and hooked it to a campaign to raise awareness ...

• Q&A: Author Bobbie Ann Mason Published 9/5/2012 at 10:05 a.m. 0 comments

  Bobbie Ann Mason may still live in Kentucky, but she doesn’t like to think of herself as a Southern writer anymore. Her earliest, award-winning works—the collection Shiloh and Other Stories and the novel In Country—were set in Western Kentucky, where ...

• Q&A: Lenoir City teacher James Yoakley Published 9/5/2012 at 9:02 a.m. 1 comment

  It was not a good spring for James Yoakley. The Lenoir City High School English teacher first found himself embroiled in controversy in February, when the school’s administration rejected a column written by the student newspaper editor, Krystal Myers, titled ...

• Q&A: Jane Maas, the Real-Life Peggy Olson Published 6/27/2012 at 3:51 p.m. 0 comments

  Jane Maas has been called the real-life Peggy Olson, although for that statement to be entirely true, Peggy will have to end up as president of a major advertising agency by the end of her career. Like Olson, Maas started ...

• Q&A: Novelist Bryan Charles Published 5/30/2012 at 11:12 a.m. 0 comments

  Bryan Charles is relatively new to Knoxville, but he’s not new to writing. His first novel, Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way, came out in 2006, and his monograph on Pavement’s album Wowee Zowee for ...

• Grassroots Documentary Project 'One Day on Earth' Makes its Way to Knoxville Published 4/17/2012 at 3:20 p.m. 0 comments

  On Oct. 10, 2010, thousands of people from every country on Earth picked up their video cameras and participated in what organizers hope to be a continuing event in global culture. That footage has now been compiled into the feature ...

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