W.M. Akers’ To Kill a Cook serves up a mystery set in the restaurants of 1972 New York
In W.M. Akers’ new mystery, To Kill a Cook, set in 1972, a restaurant critic rushes to solve the murder of a chef and simultaneously save her career and her upcoming marriage. Akers will discuss To Kill a Cook at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 4.
George Saunders revisits the fraught relationship between life and death
Poet Maria Zoccola brings Homeric mythology to small-town Tennessee in Helen of Troy, 1993
In W. Ralph Eubanks’ When It’s Darkness on the Delta, a hard-times refrain plays across a scarred region
In Cipher, Jeremy B. Jones decodes his ancestor’s journals for clues to his own identity
Ways to Support the WorkChapter 16, launched in October 2009, is an online journal about books, writers, and literary events in Tennessee and serves as the state affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.
We cover novels set here; histories involving Tennessee events or locations; authors who live here, were born or educated here; and out-of-state writers when they give readings or participate in book signings anywhere in the state. We also publish original poems and essays by prominent Tennessee authors (including previews of their works in progress).
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