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Fall officially arrives this Thursday, September 22, and that means it's time to start storing up books for the winter — right? Okay, most of us already have a well-stocked TBR pile (or two, or three), but you can never have too many books. Everybody knows that. And there's always a new book (or one that's new to you) just waiting to take you someplace you didn't know you needed to go.
Today at Chapter 16, we've got a review from Bradley Sides of the much-anticipated new novel by Silas House, Lark Ascending. As Bradley puts it, the book "pulls off the difficult task of being an apocalyptic novel that is truly harrowing, yet even more deeply affecting and tender." Silas House will appear at the Southern Festival of Books next month, as will writer Rinker Buck, whose story of real-life flatboating adventure, Life on the Mississippi, was reviewed at the site last week by Michael Ray Taylor. In other festival coverage, Jacqueline Zeisloft reviewed the debut novel by Toya Wolfe, Last Summer on State Street, and Caroline Siegrist considered Alex Jahangir's memoir of Nashville's response to the COVID crisis, Hot Spot. And rounding out the week, David Dark shared some thoughts on Anthony Ray Hinton's extraordinary 2018 memoir, The Sun Does Shine, which has just been released in a new young readers edition. (See the review for details on Hinton's upcoming appearances in Nashville and Memphis.)
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