If you live in the Nashville area or plan to visit in the coming months, you'll want to check out a new series of author talks at the Tennessee State Museum. TN Writers | TN Stories will kick off on June 9 with Marissa R. Moss discussing Her Country, a book that surveys the challenges for women in contemporary country music. Other authors scheduled to appear include Leigh Ann Gardner, Jeff Zentner, and Tara Stringfellow, to name a few. Mark your calendars!
Today at Chapter 16, Wayne Catan reviews the latest Kentucky-noir thriller from Chris Offutt, Shifty's Boys. This book brings back investigator Mick Hardin, whose "pursuit of the truth leads him to a sordid underworld full of nefarious characters and deadly secrets."
Last week, we revisited a 2016 interview with Bronwen Dickey about Pit Bull, a book that chronicles her own search for the truth about the controversial dog breed. We featured a poem from Him or Her or Whatever, the debut collection by Tyler Friend; and longtime C16 contributor Tina Chambers offered a lovely reflection on her relationship with the site and founding editor Margaret Renkl. We rounded out the week with Julie Danielson's Q&A with Nashville children's author Jamie Sumner about her new book, The Summer of June.
Joy Harjo's poem "Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story" appeared in The New Yorker and another poem, "Without," was featured on the magazine's poetry podcast.
