Chapter 16 - Part 407

“Summer’s End”

By Janice Hornburg | June 26, 2013

June 26, 2013 Janice Hornburg is a native Texan who moved to East Tennessee in 1993. A graduate of Houston Baptist University, she is employed as a clinical research scientist involved in the FDA approval of new drugs. Her poems have won first-place awards from the Poetry Society of Tennessee, The Poetry Society of Texas, the Poetry Society of Virginia, the Watauga Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, and Green River Writers; and her work has appeared in a number of anthologies and literary journals . “Summer’s End” is an excerpt from Perspectives, which has just been released.

The Original

James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew from a 1936 magazine article that was never published—until now

By Maria Browning | June 25, 2013

June 25, 2013 In 1936, James Agee wrote an article for Fortune that was never published in the magazine but eventually became his landmark book with photographer Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Presumed lost until it was uncovered in Agee’s papers in 2003, the original article—with a new selection of Evans’s photos—has just been released as Cotton Tenants: Three Families, a graceful and impassioned piece of journalism that powerfully conveys the human cost of a cruel economic system.

At the Intersection of Luxury and Simplicity

By Stephen Usery | June 24, 2013

June 24, 2013 Today, Memphis native Dana Sachs talks with Chapter 16 about her second novel, The Secret of Nightingale Palace. Sachs is a former journalist and the author of five books, including the nonfiction titles like The House on Dream Street and The Life We Were Given. The Secret of Nightingale Palace follows the struggles of thirty-five-year-old Anna.

Road Trip with Grandma

In her new novel, Memphis native Dana Sachs explores the quirks of memory

By Faye Jones | June 24, 2013

June 24, 2013 Anna Rosenthal is a thirty-five-year-old widow who can’t seem to move on with her life. Enter her estranged grandmother, Goldie, who demands that Anna drive her across country to return a set of Japanese prints that have been in her possession since World War II. The resulting journey could take the form of either farce or tragedy, but Dana Sachs makes The Secret of the Nightingale Palace a much more nuanced look at love, loss, and the secrets every life holds.

Taking the Prize

Ann Patchett, David Haskell, Adam Ross, and Margaret Lazarus Dean are among the many Tennessee writers who have taken honors this year

By Maria Browning | June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013 Tennessee writers have garnered a host of awards and honors in recent months. Chapter 16 runs down the list of prizewinners: Richard Bausch, Kate Daniels, Margaret Lazarus Dean, David Haskell, Silas House, Kristen Iversen, Jane Landers, Ann Patchett, Katherine Paterson, and Daniel Sharfstein.

“Chloe Blooming”

By Corey Mesler | June 20, 2013

June 20, 2013 Corey Mesler is the author of five novels, two books of poetry, and three story collections. He lives in Memphis, where he is the co-owner, with his wife Cheryl, of Burke’s Book Store. “Chloe Blooming” is an excerpt from his newest poetry collection, Our Locust Years, available from Unbound Content on July 1, 2013.

Isabel and the Invisible World

By Alan Lightman, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki
MIT Kids Press
40 pages
$18.99

“In simple, engaging language, complemented by luminous artwork from best-selling illustrator Ramona Kaulitzki, author and physicist Alan Lightman unveils the hidden world of light waves—the ones you can see and the ones you can’t.”

~ the publisher