Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Now in Print

D.B. Henson’s DIY publication yielded 100,000 ebook sales—and a traditional publishing contract

can concentrate on writing. I’m also happy to be able to reach the readers who have not yet transitioned from paper books to digital. Chapter 16: What are you working…

Out of the Box

Borders and Davis-Kidd may be gone, but that doesn’t mean Nashville can’t support a bookstore

…to buy books; it’s also a place to find kindred souls. If you already know what you want to read, Amazon is almost impossible to resist. Buying a book online

The Novelist and the Nun

In an essay for Granta, Ann Patchett considers her long friendship with Sister Nena

…despite her conflicted view of Catholicism: “If you asked me to define myself, the word Catholic would come up sooner or later. I think of myself as a Catholic, but…

Writers in the Red

Bidding begins today at online auction Writers for the Red Cross

…joined a group of writers and industry professionals to launch “Writers for the Red Cross,” an online auction pattered on “Do the Write Thing.” The auction will benefit the national

Memphis in LA

Richard Bausch and Rebecca Skloot are both on the short list for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize awards

February 22, 2011 For several years novelist Richard Bausch and science writer Rebecca Skloot were colleagues at the University of Memphis (though Skloot recently left the program to move to…

Unanointed, Unannealed

Journalist Stanley Booth considers his friend William Eggleston, the father of modern color photography

…who died of complications from alcoholism shortly after the completion of William Eggleston in the Real World, a documentary by Michael Almereyda, who is also the editor of For Now….

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