Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Still Discovering

Lorrie Moore talks with Chapter 16 about the “excitements and difficulties” of writing fiction

…of adulthood, A Gate at the Stairs further cements Moore’s place in the highest echelon of American writers. In advance of her visit to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Lorrie Moore…

Savage Lunacy, Comical Rage

Wells Tower talks with Chapter 16 about the tensions between fiction and journalism, his recent collaboration with painter John Currin, and his real opinion of chitlins

…up a serious accent. I wouldn’t eat a chitterling at gunpoint. Wells Tower will appear in Buttrick Hall, Room 101, on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville, January 12, 2012,…

Robert Young Drake (1930-2001)

Robert Young Drake, Jr. was born in Ripley, Tennessee on October 20, 1930. He attended Vanderbilt University, receiving his B.A. in 1952 and M.A. in 1953, and Yale, receiving another…

Social Justice, Good Ol’ Girl Style

Matraca Berg, Marshall Chapman, Jill McCorkle, and Lee Smith talk with Chapter 16 about their off-Off-Broadway show to benefit Nashville’s Center for Contemplative Justice

…York on February 14, 2011, and opening night was a true Valentine to the four women who first began work on the project more than ten years ago. According to…

Ribbons of Light

Anthony Doerr’s acclaimed Memory Wall is a graceful meditation on the power of the past

…17 at 7 p.m., Anthony Doerr will read from his work in Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville. The event is free and open to the public….

Bigger, Better, and Full of Books

The new Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt throws open its doors, and Nashville readers are wowed

…October 31—of the new Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt marks a 26,000-square-foot cause for major celebration. Remember You’ve Got Mail, the 1998 movie starring Meg Ryan as the owner of…

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