May 5, 2015 Jason Miller moved to Nashville more than twenty years ago, but he had to return to the speech patterns and vocabulary of his family and friends in Southern Illinois to find the voice for his debut novel, Down Don’t Bother Me: A Slim in Little Egypt Mystery.
April 22, 2015 David Joy’s debut novel, Where All Light Tends to Go, paints such a vivid portrait of meth dealing in the Appalachians that one journalist accused Joy of having sold meth earlier in his life. In this podcast interview Joy talks about the difference between meth and crack cultures, drafting and revising, and the expectations of both first and second novels. He will appear at 6:30 p.m. on May 1, 2015, at Parnassus Books in Nashville, and at 2 p.m. on May 2, 2015, at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville.
February 13, 2015 In Brigham Young: Sovereign in America, David Vaughn Mason explores the Mormon leader’s journey and describes how visions of an independent Mormon community drove Young and his followers across the western wilderness.
December 5, 2014 In A Wanted Woman, Memphis native Eric Jerome Dickey heads to the Caribbean to put his new assassin, Reaper, in harm’s way. He recently sat down with Chapter 16 to talk about his love of travel and about his very young and very lethal hired killer.
August 29, 2014 In Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, Box Brown, an Ignatz award-winning comic artist, has brought the life of one of the world’s most recognizable celebrities to a graphic format. Box Brown will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 10-12, 2014. All festival events are free and open to the public.
May 20, 2014 Alex Chilton reached his commercial peak when he was only sixteen years old, but his artistic peak would come later. In A Man Called Destruction, Holly George-Warren looks at the man in full, from his early stardom to his later critical acclaim. George-Warren will discuss A Man Called Destruction at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville on May 23, 2014, at 3:30 p.m.
