February 12, 2016 Mark Greaney’s assassin, Court Gentry, is unremarkable in his physical appearance, and Gentry uses this natural camouflage to his advantage when he goes to Washington, D.C., to find out why his former bosses at the CIA want him dead. Prior to the book launch for Back Blast at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 20, 2016, Greaney sat for a studio interview with Chapter 16.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart wasn’t the debut novel Ed Tarkington had in mind when he first started writing in earnest. But after turning out a very different novel that never found a publisher, Tarkington found his voice by mining his own family’s experiences. The protagonist of the resulting coming-of-age novel, Rocky Askew, is a boy growing up in a fractured upper-middle-class family in southern Virginia during the late 1970s.
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January 21, 2016 Rick Bragg will kick off the Southern Lit Alliance’s Distinguished Lectures series tonight with a reading at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Chattanooga. In this podcast, Bragg talks with Chapter 16 about his biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, why Southern storytellers are drawn to the Gothic, and why, for a writer, “everything is a struggle against dull.”
December 3, 2015 In Tim Johnston’s literary thriller, Descent, Kaitlyn Courtland goes missing while training for her freshman season on the track team at the University of Wisconsin. Her brother is with her when she disappears on a mountain trail, but he’s found unconscious and injured at the scene. Johnston will launch the book’s paperback release at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on December 8, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
November 24, 2015 Since Tom Clancy’s death in 2013, Memphis author Mark Greaney has continued the Jack Ryan series of thrillers. He will sign the latest installment, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, at Barnes & Noble in Memphis on December 1, 2016, at 7 p.m.
July 14, 2015 Jimmy Carter was fifty-two years old when he was elected president of the United States in 1976. His time in the White House was, as he puts it, “the pinnacle of my political life,” but they were only four years in a life built of service—to his family, to his faith, to his country, and to the world—that has now spanned more than nine decades.
