We focus primarily on new books and current author news here at Chapter 16, but over the past 13 years the site has built a large archive of reviews, interviews, excerpts, and essays that we believe would interest C16 readers today. We used to include archive links in this weekly newsletter, but that's not as effective as bringing those pieces to the front page of the site and sharing them in our regular social media posts, where more readers can access them. With that in mind, we've decided to republish an archive piece every Friday — and we launched that new feature last week with Mirsad Kulovic's tender, harrowing essay "Three-Day Business Trip," which was among the winners of the Tennessee True Stories contest in 2020.
Today at the site, Emily Choate reviews Charles Dodd White's memoir, A Year Without Months, a book that "enmeshes the human world with the untamed elements of our origins." Last week, Jane Marcellus reviewed journalist Kathryn Miles' Trailed, an account of a notorious, unsolved double murder on the Appalachian Trail; Amanda Haggard reviewed Her Country, Marissa R. Moss' look at the role of women in the country music industry; and Tina Chambers reviewed The Crocodile Bride, the debut novel by Ashleigh Bell Pedersen.
