
Chaney Hill
@hill_chaney
English, Literature Ph.D. Student📚 Rice University 🦉20th Century American Literature in the South / West • Critical Texas Studies• Public Memory Studies
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27-05-2021 00:01:46
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BREAKING: Houston ISD announced Wednesday the district will implement a mandate for the 2021-2022 school year. click2houston.com/news/local/202…


Famed author Cormac McCarthy recently published The Passenger, his 1st book since his novel The Road won the Pulitzer Prize 15 years ago. Scholars from around the world have traveled to Texas State University to study the author’s archives, housed Wittliff Collections Collections. news.txst.edu/inside-txst/20…

"It is not just about learning hidden histories, it is about reckoning with these histories and working them into our collective imagination, history, and consciousness..." Chaney Hill reviews HOW THE WORD IS PASSED by Clint Smith. Little, Brown and Co bit.ly/3G1sbZp


"Freedom House is an unapologetic, forward-dreaming manifesto for a better, shared future." Chaney Hill reviews FREEDOM HOUSE by KB Brookins. Deep Vellum southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/04/12/fre…

"Using poetry as a tool of exploration and future dreaming, Brookins builds a freedom house, brick by brick by poem." -Chaney Hill, Southern Review of Books Read the full review here: southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/04/12/fre… @earthtokb

The Summer 2023 issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language has shipped to all subscribers and contributors! To order your copy, visit utpress.utexas.edu/journals/texas…


“Allen writes convincingly of place and the way that place can move a person.” Chaney Hill on DOWN HERE WE COME UP by Sara Johnson Allen. @BlackLawrence southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/08/09/dow…

Very grateful for this thoughtful review from Chaney Hill in The Southern Review of Books Southern Review of Books. Thank you so much for taking the time to read and respond to my work. 🙏❤️ southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/08/09/dow…

"Each short story is deeply anchored to home and place. Watkins draws readers into a world that is all dirt, sweat, love, angst, bittersweet relationships, despair, and hope." Chaney Hill reviews HOLLER, CHILD by Latoya Watkins. TinyRepBooks southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/08/28/hol…

"I wrote Mr. Texas with the idea that it would penetrate into the heart of our political system and show us what we have, what’s good about it, and what’s wrong with it." Chaney Hill interviews Lawrence Wright on MR. TEXAS. Alfred A. Knopf southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/10/10/mr-…

A wonderful, thoughtful review up of Holy American Burnout! up Southern Review of Books ! Writing these essays were certainly a balm for me, so delighted to read that they were for someone else too. Thank you Chaney Hill for this generous reading of HAB!!

“THE BULLET SWALLOWER asks what the relationship between revenge, retribution, reparation and remedy is.” Chaney Hill reviews THE BULLET SWALLOWER by Elizabeth Gonzalez James. Simon & Schuster southernreviewofbooks.com/2024/01/22/the…


"Equal parts surreal and sharp, devastating and delightful, THE LAST PHILOSOPHER IN TEXAS has something for everyone." Read more from Chaney Hill's new review of THE LAST PHILOSOPHER IN TEXAS by Daniel ChacĂłn at the link in bio! artepublico


Don't miss this fantastic interview on complicated love stories, cultural criticism, Gale of Waterdeep, and MAGICAL/REALISM with Chaney Hill and El Norte Recuerda! TinyRepBooks southernreviewofbooks.com/2024/07/18/mag…