“I think being a fiction writer has made me more tuned-in to different types of people by listening to them, observing them. It’s made me more empathetic.” — Denise Giardina

A Painted House by John Grisham, continued. Features by Tim Gautreaux and Matthew Teague. Fiction by Carrie Brown. Interviews with Denise Giardina and Ernest Gaines.

Other contributors include Tom Piazza, Carol Dawson, H.W. Brands, Joshua Gordon, John T. Edge, Hal Crowther, and more.