A son serves as witness to his parents’ enduring love
December 12, 2014 My mother understood that my father’s death was at hand. For my part, I understood that their love for one another and their straightforward, practical faith would see them through this profoundest of transitions.
Marcus Baram’s Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man explores the life of the late artist and activist
December 11, 2014 Gil Scott-Heron’s rise to prominence and inexorable fall into addiction seem to echo an old and oft-repeated story in the music world, but Marcus Baram’s Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man delves deeply into the artist’s life and psyche, offering insight into why this particular man went down that sad road.
Katherine Paterson’s warm, humorous memoir sheds light on a beloved author
December 10, 2014 Katherine Paterson’s Stories of My Life is a loving look back at an extraordinary life. The Newbery- and National Book Award-winning author of children’s classics like Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, and The Great Gilly Hopkins, Paterson recently answered questions from Chapter 16.
Oprah’s new book offers an assortment of her distinctive personal philosophies
December 9, 2014 Film critic Gene Siskel once asked Oprah Winfrey what she knew “for sure.” The Tennessee State University alum calls this “the central question of my life,” and her new book takes its title from Siskel’s query. A small, attractively bound volume, perfect for gift-giving, What I Know For Sure will undoubtedly delight Winfrey’s many fans.
In Poems of the American South, David Biespiel assembles some of the best poets writing from or about this region
December 8, 2014 Poems of the American South, edited by David Biespiel, displays the rich poetic tradition of the South. From race to rattlesnakes, each poem reveals complicated truths about this region of the United States.
December 5, 2014 In A Wanted Woman, Memphis native Eric Jerome Dickey heads to the Caribbean to put his new assassin, Reaper, in harm’s way. He recently sat down with Chapter 16 to talk about his love of travel and about his very young and very lethal hired killer.
