Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Cutting Remembrances

Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, discusses the delicate art of writing about war

…for translating the surreal and tragic nature of war and its lingering effects into vivid images and penetrating insights. Of a cathedral Bartle visits after his return to Richmond, for…

Building Momentum

Michael Connelly discusses his popular detective series, his journalism background, and the future of the book

…an interview with Chapter 16, Connelly describes the latest Bosch installment, Nine Dragons, and bemoans the slow death of local newspapers. He also discusses his prodigious output, electronic books, and…

Parting Shot

Ace Atkins pens his tenth installment in an iconic detective series

“I keep extensive records of my favorite cases,” Spenser tells a waterfront criminal in Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby, the tenth novel Mississippi-based writer Ace Atkins has penned in…

Where’s Bitsy?

Campbell Hale investigates the case of the missing socialite

Gone Missin’ is the second installment in Peggy O’Neal Peden’s Nashville mystery series. While her debut, Your Killin’ Heart, centered on the city’s music scene, Gone Missin’ focuses on Nashville’s…

Life, Breath, and Death

Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is an elegy and a call to action

…the slain: “Dear Elijah McClain, I write to you out of profound grief.” And the beatification begins. The letters also illustrate, perhaps to the dismay of readers, that not much…

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