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If He Makes It Through December

George Saunders’s fourth collection of short stories, Tenth of December, is already a contender for 2013 prizes

By Stephen Usery |

February 1, 2013 Chapter 16 is delighted to announce that Stephen Usery is joining the site as a regular podcast contributor. Usery is the legendary host of WYPL’s, Book Talk”, an author-interview program sponsored by the Memphis Public Library, and Mysterypod, his own weekly podcast featuring interviews with authors of mysteries, thrillers, and crime fiction. In today’s podcast, Usery talks with George Saunders about his new book, Tenth of December, which The New York Times called “the best book you’ll read this year.”

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A Humble Mysticism

The poems in Jeff Hardin’s Notes for a Praise Book leap from image to insight

By Maria Browning |

January 31, 2013 Using images of the natural world to convey a deeply spiritual vision, the poems in Jeff Hardin’s Notes for a Praise Book seem to speak directly to the reader. He has a knack for shaping phrases that capture the ordinary, fleeting impressions nature delivers, as well as the moments of beauty that usually go uncelebrated.

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One For the Records

At age twenty-five, Nashville resident Victoria Schwab has published her second YA novel, The Archived

By Sarah Norris |

January 30, 2013 At only twenty-five, Nashville author Victoria Schwab has experienced the kind of success most authors only dream about. Her debut novel, The Near Witch, was published when she was barely twenty-three. Two years later, her second YA novel, The Archived, has just hit shelves. This year will also see the arrival of Vicious, Schwab’s first novel for adults. And she’s already sold the sequel to The Archived. Schwab will celebrate with a book signing and launch party hosted by East Nashville’s Art & Invention Gallery on February 1 at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

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Beneath the Surface

Sara J. Henry’s second novel delves into the mysteries of a frozen landscape

By Chris Scott |

January 29, 2013 Oak Ridge native Sara J. Henry won the Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards with her first novel, Learning to Swim. In her second Troy Chance mystery, A Cold and Lonely Place, she returns to the Lake Placid, New York, area with a story of family secrets, emotional and physical isolation, and sudden death. Henry will appear at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Brentwood on February 5 at 7 p.m.

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Music City Reads

Nashville’s citywide-read program to kick off with Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi

January 28, 2013 In March the Nashville Public Library will launch the second Nashville Reads, a citywide reading campaign to encourage teens and adults to read the same book at the same time as a way of creating a shared experience of reading in the city. Life of Pi, a novel by internationally acclaimed author Yann Martel, is the selection for this spring’s program. On March 2 at 3 p.m., Martel will give a free public lecture at the Nashville Public Library as a kickoff to the event.

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Wake Up!

In The Future, Al Gore warns readers of cliffs far more precarious than fiscal ones

By Paul V. Griffith |

January 28, 2013 In his new book, The Future, Al Gore condemns the corrupting influence of money and warns of the destructive power of “emergent phenomena” which have the power to destroy life as we know it. Gore will appear at Belmont University in Nashville on February 2 at 2 p.m., and at the Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 18 at 12 noon. Both events require book purchase for entrance. Click here for event details in Nashville and here for those in Memphis.

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