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News & Notes
The Egerton School of Public Service, Truth Telling, Rabble Rousing, and Close Talking
At a public celebration of John Egerton’s life, the beloved Nashville author is remembered as a force for good in the world
November 12, 2013 At a celebration of John Egerton’s life on December 8, several hundred friends, colleagues, and admirers gathered at the Nashville Public Library to remember the author of Southern Food and Speak Now Against the Day, among many other influential books on the culture of the American South. At Chapter 16, we are honored to publish the prepared remarks given in John’s honor, a link to a video of the event by Joe York of the Southern Foodways Alliance, and excerpts from a selection of reminiscences by those who attended the celebration.
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Madison Smartt Bell’s publisher is giving away his new book—but there’s a wonderful catch
December 6, 2013 Madison Smartt Bell’s new book, a collection of short stories called Zig Zag Wanderer, sounds like vintage MSB: “Stretching from New York to Haiti and beyond, these luminous stories reveal Bell’s sharp eye and deep empathy for his characters—punks, hustlers, mixed figures, and lost souls of all ages, backgrounds, and denominations,” according to the book’s publisher, Concord Free Press.
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Patricia Cornwell’s latest book isn’t the only new release for the crime novelist
November 15, 2013 Patricia Cornwell turns out a book a year, on average, so it’s never a huge surprise when a new Kay Scarpetta novel hits shelves. The surprise is always in the story itself, and Cornwell has a knack for inventing tales that seem to predict the next wave of media obsession with crime. (After all, her protagonist, Kay Scarpetta, is the original fictional forensic investigator.) This year’s novel, Dust, has just been released.
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With Jason Bateman joining Nicole Kidman on the project, Kevin Wilson’s bestselling novel, The Family Fang, is surely headed for the big screen
November 8, 2013 In 2011, when actress Nicole Kidman, who lives in Nashville, optioned Kevin Wilson’s debut novel, The Family Fang, for a feature film, the Sewanee author was dumbfounded. “It’s crazy,” he told Chapter 16’s Tina LoTufo at the time. “That’s the furthest thing from your mind when you’re writing a book. [But] maybe in the back of my head I was thinking if I could write a good-enough novel I would get to meet Nicole Kidman. And it would all be worth it.”
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The Southern Festival of Books celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with an anthology by festival authors
September 24, 2013 This fall marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Southern Festival of Books on downtown Nashville’s Legislative Plaza. The free three-day festival annually attracts more than 20,000 attendees to meet their favorite authors and get their books autographed. In honor of this noteworthy anniversary, Humanities Tennessee is proud to announce the release of a special anthology.
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