Chapter 16 - Part 392

Move Over, Paula Deen

James Beard Award-winning chef John Currence talks about his high-concept Southern cuisine

By Paul V. Griffith | May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014 With Paula Deen laying low, Southern cooking has room for a new star. Welcome John Currence, a jovial, down-home chef whose Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey: Recipes from My Three Favorite Food Groups and Then Some weds Deep South comfort with Continental technique. Currence will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on May 28, 2014, at 5 p.m., and again at The Public House at 6:30 p.m. The later event will include food samplings.

The Old Man And The Sequel

Edgar finalist Daniel Friedman resurrects hilarious octogenarian cop Buck Schatz

By Liz Garrigan | May 21, 2014

May 21, 2014 When last we heard from retired Memphis Police Detective Baruch “Buck” Schatz, the hysterical Jewish octogenarian in Daniel Friedman’s 2012 debut novel, Don’t Ever Get Old, he was taking a break from watching Fox News, considering his bowel progress, and smoking Lucky Strikes while an escaped Nazi war criminal tried to kill him. Friedman will discuss the book’s sequel, Don’t Ever Look Back, at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on May 27, 2014, at 6 p.m., and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 1, 2014, at 2 p.m.

Ain’t Got Time to Take a Fast Train

By Stephen Usery | May 20, 2014

May 20, 2014 Alex Chilton reached his commercial peak when he was only sixteen years old, but his artistic peak would come later. In A Man Called Destruction, Holly George-Warren looks at the man in full, from his early stardom to his later critical acclaim. George-Warren will discuss A Man Called Destruction at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville on May 23, 2014, at 3:30 p.m.

A Stranger in Quite a Few Places

Madison Smartt Bell talks to Chapter 16 about his new story collection, Zig Zag Wanderer

By Maria Browning | May 19, 2014

May 19, 2014 The publisher of Zig Zag Wanderer, Madison Smartt Bell’s third short-story collection, is the innovative Concord Free Press, which gives away all its books with the understanding that readers will “pay it forward” by making a donation to a charity or a person in need. Bell answers questions from Chapter 16 about the stories and CFP’s unique approach to publishing.

“The Way”

By Bill Brown | May 16, 2014

May 16, 2014 Bill Brown grew up in West Tennessee ten miles from the Mississippi River. He is the author of eight poetry collections and a creative-writing textbook. “The Way” was originally published in Tar River Poetry and will appear in Brown’s forthcoming collection, Elemental, which is due in September. Brown will give a free public reading on May 22, 2014, at 7 p.m. in the Fondren Building at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville.

The Other War

In her new novel, Jennifer Chiaverini examines the political rivalries in Civil War Washington

By Faye Jones | May 15, 2014

May 15, 2914 Jennifer Chiaverini continues her portraits of Civil War women in her latest novel, Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival, which features Kate Chase Sprague, the daughter of Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury. Chiaverini will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on May 22, 2014, at 6 p.m.

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

By Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls
Routledge
340 pages
$180

The book “explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book.”

~the publisher