Chapter 16 - Part 298

Jane from Cincinnati

With Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers a contemporary adaptation of Pride & Prejudice

By Ed Tarkington | August 3, 2016

The Austen Project has commissioned six contemporary authors to write modern adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels. Tasked with the daunting challenge of reimagining the beloved Pride & Prejudice, bestselling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld has delivered Eligible, an inventive and irreverent update to a revered tale. Sittenfeld will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016. All festival events are free and open to the public.

Where The Stories Live

In Laura Hendrix Ezell’s A Record of Our Debts, small-town lives are bound by their mysterious history

By Emily Choate | August 2, 2016

In A Record of Our Debts, a debut story collection by Cookeville writer Laura Hendrix Ezell, paranoia runs tightly through a collection of small towns where the bonds of community may chafe, but freedom can become its own prison. Ezell will discuss A Record of Our Debts at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016.

Brother Bill?

Daryl A. Carter reckons with the ambivalent racial legacy of President Bill Clinton

By Peter Kuryla | August 1, 2016

In Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class, historian Daryl A. Carter considers several critical episodes in the Clinton years, taking measure of the forty-second President’s racial policies and thinking, separating fact from fiction and history from memory. Carter will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16. All festival events are free and open to the public.

Welcome Home, Caroline

Poet Caroline Randall Williams returns to Nashville to take a new post at Fisk

By Margaret Renkl | July 18, 2016

Nashville native Caroline Randall Williams will be the new writer-in-residence at Fisk University, a post her grandfather also served.

A Noble Lunacy

Through the story of a break-in at Oak Ridge, Dan Zak’s Almighty explores the tensions of the atomic age

By Aram Goudsouzian | July 15, 2016

In July 2012 three protesters, including an elderly nun, broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In Almighty, Washington Post reporter Dan Zak uses their story to illuminate a movement of dissenters against nuclear weapons. Zak will discuss the book at the East Tennessee History Center Auditorium in Knoxville on August 4, 2016, at 7 p.m.

An Assault on Making Sense

Odie Lindsey’s debut story collection, We Come to Our Senses, details the dirty secrets of deployment

By Beth Waltemath | July 14, 2016

In his debut collection, We Come to Our Senses, Odie Lindsey challenges the grand narratives of war with stories of the self-destructive impulses of the men and women forever changed by it. Lindsey will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on July 21, at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on July 28, at the Southern Festival of Books October 14-16, and at Vanderbilt University on November 10. All events are free and open to the public.

I Gotta Sing!

By Alice Faye Duncan
WaterBrook
40 pages
$14.99

“A whole barnyard makes noise ‘in the Spirit of joy’ throughout this raucous picture book, a sweetly heartwarming sing-along by Duncan. Kellam conveys comfort and happiness as the loved ones reflect sunny enthusiasm in this gladdening rendition of the Black American religious folk song ‘I’m Goin’a Sing When the Spirit Says Sing.’”

~Publishers Weekly