Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Sean Kinch

An Imperfect Union

An ideal marriage falls horrifically apart in J.T. Ellison’s new thriller, Lie To Me

The glamorous literary couple at the center of J.T. Ellison’s new domestic noir, Lie To Me, appears to enjoy love, beauty, and success, but when the wife suddenly disappears, darker truths begin to emerge. Nashville novelist J.T. Ellison will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 5 at 6:30 p.m.

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Prep School Noir

In Christopher Swann’s Shadow of the Lions, a novelist confronts an old mystery

In Christopher Swann’s debut novel, Shadow of the Lions, Matthias Glass returns to teach at his former boarding school—and to investigate the unsolved disappearance of his best friend a decade earlier. Swann will discuss Shadow of the Lions at Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 3 at 6:30 p.m., and at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.

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An In-Between Life

Angela Palm’s memoir, Riverine, reckons with the lingering effects of growing up in Nowhere, Indiana

In her memoir of childhood along the Kankakee River, Angela Palm recalls her love for the boy next door, who went to prison before he could escape their dead-end home. Palm will discuss Riverine at Refinery Nashville on June 24 at 6 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Porch Writers’ Collective, is free and open to the public.

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Women on the Verge

In Woman No. 17, Edan Lepucki’s heroes flirt with disaster

Edan Lepucki’s new novel, Woman No. 17, features two women who rush toward self-inflicted crises. Lepucki will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 18 at 6:30 p.m.

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Something to Lose

In Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, a father’s past haunts his daughter

In Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, a father with a long criminal history settles down with his daughter on the Massachusetts coast in a futile search for normalcy. Tinti will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 29 at 6:30 p.m.

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Embrace the Badness

In The Hearts of Men, Nickolas Butler stages the trials of Boy Scout camp

The title of Nickolas Butler’s new novel, The Hearts of Men, points directly to its thematic core: set at a Boy Scout camp in Wisconsin, the book tells the intertwined stories of two camp families over three generations. Butler will discuss The Hearts of Men at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 16 at 6:30 p.m.

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