With the publication of Full Body Burden, Kristen Iversen’s life changed
June 5, 2013 Before her memoir, Full Body Burden, hit shelves, Kristen Iversen got some advice from Helen Caldicott, one of her heroes: “Buckle your seatbelt and take your vitamins,” Caldicott said. “Your life is about to change.” In an essay for Chapter 16, Iversen explains just how prescient those words turned out to be.
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Ace Atkins’s third Quinn Colson mystery features a prison escape, a kidnapping, and a raging tornado
June 4, 2013 Tibbedah County Sheriff Quinn Colson doesn’t much like his little sister’s new boyfriend, Jamey Dixon, a convicted killer mysteriously pardoned by the Mississippi governor. It’s of little comfort that he is now a self-redeemed preacher, and things become even more concerning when the preacher’s former prison buddies escape and come to town. Ace Atkins will read from and sign The Broken Places, his third Quinn Colson mystery, at 6 p.m. on June 5, 2013, at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis.
A struggling gardener considers what writing shares with cultivating the soil
June 3, 2013 “There is in me that dark tendency to see gardening as just one more thing at which to fail—a pursuit that can only result in my coming up short in the shadow of my parents’ mastery. But I can also see it as just another form of the revision process, of creative habit, one that has much to say to writing.” Susannah Felts will read from her work on June 4, 2013, at 7 p.m. at Fat Bottom Brewery in Nashville. She will be joined by songwriter Joshua Payne. The free event is part of the East Side Storytellin’ series, which pairs writers and musicians in performance.
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A spirit-filled campground is the setting for Raymond L. Atkins’s comic novel
May 31, 2013 Raymond L. Atkins’s third novel and winner of the 2011 Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction, Camp Redemption, tells the story of Early Willingham, a mild-mannered mechanic with a fondness for Schlitz malt liquor, and his clairvoyant sister, Ivey. Filled with colorful characters and quaint locales, Camp Redemption is a gentle comic meditation on the surprising things that can happen when we reach out a hand to those in need. Raymond L. Atkins will discuss the novel at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on June 6, 2013, at 5:30 p.m.
David Sedaris has a very particular reason for looking forward to his reading in Nashville
May 30, 2013 Humorist David Sedaris is currently on an author tour for his new book, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. He spoke with Chapter 16 by phone about his upcoming appearance at Parnassus Books in Nashville, the difference between his lecture and bookstore tours, and the true meaning of Christmas. [This interview is also available as a podcast.] Sedaris will discuss and sign copies of Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 31, 2013, at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public but requires book purchase through the Parnassus website. Click here for details.
May 30, 2013 David Sedaris is currently on an author tour for his new book, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. He spoke with Chapter 16 by phone about his upcoming reading and signing at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 31, 2013; the difference between his lecture and bookstore tours; and the true meaning of Christmas.
