Chapter 16 - Part 400

Wild Ride

Rocker Graham Nash talks to Chapter 16 about his new autobiography, Wild Tales, his political activism, and his often tumultuous life as a member of both The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

By Paul V. Griffith | March 17, 2014

March 17, 2013“> According to rocker Graham Nash, the harmony that gave the world songs like “Carry On,” “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” and “Teach Your Children”––songs that defined an era––emerged fully formed. In Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, Nash documents his time with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and sometimes Young, and describes the rise of his earlier band, The Hollies. In an event cosponsored by Parnassus Books and the Nashville Public Library, Nash will appear on March 21, 2014, at the downtown library for a brief talk and book signing. The talk is free, but book purchase is required to enter the signing line.

Anthem of an Assassin

Ted Scofield’s debut novel, Eat What You Kill, is a philosophical thriller

By Liz Garrigan | March 14, 2014

March 13, 2014 Evan Stoess spends twelve years as the only poor kid at a prep school for the overprivileged, an experience that offers incentive aplenty for him to strive for wealth, to prove he’s worthy of his peers—better, even. What is Evan willing to do for wealth and fame? That’s the central question of Eat What You Kill, a financial thriller by former Nashvillian Ted Scofield.

Identity Issues

The new YA novel by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper earns praise from The New York Times

By Margaret Renkl | March 14, 2014

March 14, 2014 Changers, the first in a fantasy series of YA novels by East Tennessee husband-and-wife team T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper, is singled out by the literary paper of record for its unusual appeal to teens struggling with identity issues—as what teen is not?

Picking up the Pieces

In Bill Cotter’s Parallel Apartments, a cast of outcasts and misfits attempt to re-assemble their lives

By Sean Kinch | March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014 Bill Cotter’s new novel, Parallel Apartments, set mainly in Austin, centers on three generations of women whose lives have been upended by unplanned pregnancies. This densely peopled novel is replete with outrageous events intended to provoke and titillate, but at its heart it explores the nature of desire and the consequences of dubious decisions. Bill Cotter will read from Parallel Apartments at Crosstown Arts in Memphis on March 18, 2014, at 6 p.m.

Making Flesh and Bone of the Man in the Woods

Praise for Michael Sims’s The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

By Serenity Gerbman | March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014 Crossville native—and sometime Chapter 16 contributor—Michael Sims has had an enviably diverse career, following his own interests to subjects that include science, children’s authors, Victorian detective stories, and now Henry David Thoreau. Sims’ portrait of Thoreau reveals a young man fully engaged with the world, quirky and playful, and nothing like the hermit history has constructed.

It’s Not Even Past

In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling continues his exploration of collective memory

By Ed Tarkington | March 12, 2014

March 12, 2014 In A Late Encounter With the Civil War Vanderbilt English professor Michael Kreyling continues the examination of collective memory he began in 2010 with The South That Wasn’t There. By examining a variety of sources high and low, Kreyling argues persuasively that—channeling Faulkner’s famous aphorism—“The past is never dead—it’s not even past.” Michael Kreyling will introduce the James Franco film version of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying at Vanderbilt University’s Sarratt Cinema on March 13, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is 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