From the Chapter 16 archive: If there’s not enough time to read, why am I working so hard to send another book into the world?
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Planting Trees Whose Shade We May Never Enjoy
A writer gardens through an existential crisis
Kim Green
Our Town
I’ll Take You There is a collaborative guide to places in Nashville shaped by social justice work
I’ll Take You There, edited by Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams Jr. and written by more than 100 local contributors, guides readers to Nashville places shaped by resistance to power and injustice.
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Whose Hot Chicken Is It Anyway?
A historian weaves the story of Nashville hot chicken with a chronicle of race and real estate
In Rachel Louise Martin’s Hot, Hot Chicken, the story of a beloved Nashville dish is inextricable from the history of redlining and misguided urban renewal initiatives that undermined the city’s Black communities for generations. Martin will appear at a virtual event hosted by The Bookshop in Nashville on April 5.
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A Long, Strange Trip
My Year Abroad traces an ordinary young man’s journey to a weird hell and back
My Year Abroad, Chang-rae Lee’s sixth novel, is an exuberant — and strange — coming-of-age tale. Lee will discuss the book with Ann Patchett at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 19.
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Live and Let Spy
In Sometimes You Have to Lie, Leslie Brody traces the origin story of an author and her fictional heroine
Leslie Brody’s Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of the free-spirited life and revolutionary times of the famously secretive Harriet the Spy author, Louise Fitzhugh.
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White Fight
Dispatches from the Race War exhorts white Americans to join the struggle for a fairer society.
Dispatches from the Race War, a new essay collection by antiracist educator Tim Wise, implores white Americans to reckon with the nation’s ongoing racial traumas and commit to the struggle for justice and equity. Wise will appear at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on December 10.
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