Sept. 17, 2018

Providing comprehensive coverage of Tennessee's literary news and events

Editor's Note
Some wonderful news came from Knoxville last week: Union Ave. Books is expanding. This beautiful bookshop, created by Flossie McNabb and Bunny Pressman, will take over the next-door space, enlarging the store to roughly 2,150 square feet. The expansion will allow for an even greater selection of books and will make it possible to hold a much larger audience during author events. And given the fantastic roster of authors the store has booked for later this fall, those extra chairs should fill up quickly. To read more about the expansion, click here. To see photos of the current store click here.
Recently at Chapter 16
Spreading the Gospel of Southern Living (Review)
Actress and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon adds "author" to her list of titles.
By Tina Chambers
What's Wrong with Me?
Young men stumble on the path to adulthood in J.M. Holmes's How Are You Going To Save Yourself.
By Sean Kinch
Confessions of a Fangirl (Review)
With Dead Girls, Alice Bolin navigates fantasy and reality in pop culture and beyond. 
By Erica Ciccarone
The Scourge of War and the Perils of Peace (Review)
In The Thin Light of Freedom, Edward L. Ayers reconsiders the Civil War through two communities on opposite sides. 
By Ed Tarkington
A Lavish Mural of 1970s Indulgence (Review)
I Will Be Complete is Glen David Gold's unsparing account of growing up in the care of the Me Generation.
By Hamilton Cain
From the Archive
"Summer's End" (Poem)
By Janice Hornburg
Coming Up
  • Review of American Prison by Shane Bauer (reading at Parnassus Books in Nashville on 9/22)
  • Review of Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco (reading at Barnes & Noble Vanderbilt in Nashville on 9/22 and at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on 9/24; also appearing at the 2018 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 12-14)
  • Review of Beautiful Country Burn Again by Ben Fountain (appearing at the 2018 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 12-14)
  • Excerpt from Rodeo in Reverse by Lindsey Alexander (reading in Knoxville at Union Ave. Books on 9/27 and at Hexagon Brewing on 10/21; also appearing at the 2018 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 12-14)
  • Q&A with Ketch Secor and Higgins Bond re Lorraine (reading at Parnassus Books in Nashville on 10/2 and appearing at the 2018 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 12-14)
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