Kathryn Stockett at the 2009 Southern Festival of Books

October 29, 2009

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

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

By Tore C. Olsson
St. Martin's Press
288 pages
$30

“I recommend Red Dead’s History unreservedly not only to fans of the iconic video game, but also to anyone who wants to understand the riotousness — from Wild West gunslingers to Jim Crow to lynching — that darkened our past, and which continues to influence our culture. Olsson’s prose is graceful, his analysis profound. This is history at its most accessible and exciting.”

~Peter Cozzens, award-winning author of A Brutal Reckoning