Rachel Louise Martin chronicles the battle to desegregate an East Tennessee high school
Rachel Louise Martin’s A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation recounts the story of the “Clinton 12,” who in 1956 were the first students to desegregate an all-white public high school in the South. Martin will discuss the book at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 14 and Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 20.
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Once upon a time, Donna Parker and Trixie Belden saved a lonely little girl
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: For a child in small-town Alabama, books provided solace in summers without friends and activities.
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Chris Offutt on small towns, homesickness, and whether “bad guys” exist
Chris Offutt talks with Chapter 16 about the love that goes into his rural noir thrillers.
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Friends turn to each other in Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans
With his second novel, The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor invites us into a study on the intersection of loneliness, belonging, and being happy.
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Angela Tucker wants us to understand the complexities of adoption
Angela Tucker is committed to opening a conversation about the complex, sometimes contradictory emotions around adoption, especially for transracial adoptees. Tucker will discuss her book You Should Be Grateful with Steve Haruch at The Porch in Nashville on June 10.
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David George Haskell explores all things acoustic within the natural world
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: David George Haskell’s fourth book, Sounds Wild and Broken, was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Haskell will deliver the keynote address at the Clarksville Writers Conference on June 8.
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