Chapter 16 - Part 572

Puncturing the Myth of Recovered Memory

Meredith Maran came to believe her father molested her. Eight years later, she changed her mind.

By Margaret Renkl | October 11, 2010

October 11, 2010 For eight years, Meredith Maran mistakenly believed her father had molested her when she was a child. Two decades later, still tormented by the damage her accusation caused her family, she embarked on a search to understand what really happened, and why. The result is My Lie: A True Story of False Memory. Maran answered questions from Chapter 16 in advance of her signing at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville on October 11 at 7 p.m.

Bedside Manners

Abraham Verghese wants young doctors to touch their patients

By Margaret Renkl | October 11, 2010

October 11, 2010 A doctor’s hands are in danger of being replaced by an array of medical devices, fears Abraham Verghese, the former Johnson City writer and physician whose first novel, Cutting for Stone, is a national bestseller. According to a new profile in The New York Times, Verghese “is on a mission to bring back something he considers a lost art: the physical exam.

Authors on the Plaza

Join us in Nashville for the twenty-second annual Southern Festival of Books

By Margaret Renkl | October 7, 2010

October 8, 2010 Writing tends to be a reclusive art, but Humanities Tennessee has lured 265 authors out of their garrets for the twenty-second annual Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word. The festival, a free event for the whole family, will be held this weekend in Nashville on Legislative Plaza. Whether your tastes run to memoirs or cookbooks, literary novels or thrillers, biographies or beach reads, picture books for the kids or adult-only fare, this year’s sessions cover the literary waterfront.

Carrying the Fire

Why Cormac McCarthy should have won the Nobel Prize

By Ed Tarkington | October 7, 2010

October 7, 2010 Since 1993, the Swedish Academy has spurned writers from the U.S. as “too insular and ignorant to challenge Europe as the center of the literary world.” But just yesterday, British bookies were giving better than three-to-one odds that this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature would go to Tennessee native Cormac McCarthy. We know why.

Captive Audience

The protagonist of Laura Lippman’s new thriller hasn’t moved as far beyond the past as she believes

By Sean Kinch | October 6, 2010

October 6, 2010 Laura Lippman’s new crime novel, I’d Know You Anywhere, begins where most mysteries end. The killer has been caught and incarcerated; apparently, justice has been served. Twenty years after he raped and murdered a series of young women in suburban Washington, D.C., Walter Bowman sits on Death Row awaiting execution, his appeals finally exhausted. His last request is to make contact with the one girl he kidnapped but, unlike the unfortunate others, did not kill. Lippman will read from the novel at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on October 7 at 6 p.m.

A Prelinguistic Place

Molly Peacock talks with Chapter 16 about writing, performing, and teaching poetry

By Maria Browning | October 5, 2010

October 5, 2010 Molly Peacock is known as a writer of vibrant, sensual poetry and as a nonfiction writer with a particular gift for articulating the challenges faced by women artists. She shares some thoughts with Chapter 16 on her vocation as a poet, and on her latest book, which examines late-life creativity. She will read from and discuss her work at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on October 7 at 7 p.m.

Camilla and the Caterpillars

By Frances Figart, illustrated by Matt Brass
Smokies Life
68 pages
$14.95

A young girl’s encounter with an extraordinary caterpillar in the Great Smoky Mountains leads her and her family on a quest to plant a national park right in their own backyard.

This environmentally themed chapter book for ages 6 through 11 introduces young readers to important ecological concepts including habitat loss and the interdependence of native species and offers a compelling grassroots solution through native-plant gardening that invites anyone to take part in addressing the growing biodiversity crisis.

~the publisher