Podcasts

March 8, 2013 Nashville author Ruta Sepetys talks with Chapter 16’s Stephen Usery about her latest novel, Out of the Easy. Sepetys is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, which won the 2012 Golden Kite Award and was a finalist for both the 2012 William C. Morris and Amelia Elizabeth Walden Awards. Out of the Easy follows seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine, the daughter of a prostitute. Josie longs to escape the underworld of New Orleans brothels in the 1950s.

February 15, 2013 In his latest installment for the Chapter 16 podcast, Stephen Usery talks by phone with Richard Russo, the acclaimed author of Empire Falls, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. This winter Russo has released two new titles: Nate in Venice, a novella available only as a Byliner ebook, and Elsewhere, a memoir about his mother.

February 1, 2013 Chapter 16 is delighted to announce that Stephen Usery is joining the site as a regular podcast contributor. Usery is the legendary host of WYPL’s Book Talk, an author-interview program sponsored by the Memphis Public Library, and Mysterypod, his own podcast featuring interviews with authors of mysteries, thrillers, and crime fiction. In today’s podcast, Usery talks with George Saunders about his new book, Tenth of December, which The New York Times called “the best book you’ll read this year.”

Recorded live at the Laurel Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 20, 2009. In this episode, RB Morris — first introduced by Agee scholar and editor Michael Lofaro and then in performance with Hector Qirko — reads the “Dream Intro” from the new revision of James Agee’s novel, “A Death in the Family.”

In this session from the 2009 Southern Festival of Books, William Ferris discusses his new book, Give My Poor Heart Ease, and plays portions of historic audio recordings of blues music, following Highway 61 from Mississippi. This session was recorded live at the Senate Chambers of the State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee on October 10, 2009. For more podcasts, visit our feed at www.chapter16.org/podcast.xml

In this session from the 2009 Southern Festival of Books, Kathryn Stockett reads from and discusses her novel, The Help, talks about the novel’s international readership, and confesses her childhood fear of the school librarian. This session was recorded live at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on October 10, 2009. For more podcasts, visit our feed at www.chapter16.org/podcast.xml