Chapter 16 - Part 573

Looking at the Pictures

A new Nashville gallery show features picture books in the making

By Joe Nolan | October 4, 2010

October 4, 2010 Now on display in East Nashville’s Art & Invention Gallery is an exhibit of children’s books and related items by five familiar faces in Nashville’s art scene. Athena Workman, Bethany Taylor, Bill Elliot, Greg Morneau, and Julie Sola created the work in the gallery’s second annual Proto Pulp–Classic Books of the Future, a collection of children’s picture books-in-progress. The show runs through October 17.

Enter the Dragon

Peter Ho Davies talks with Chapter 16 about writing, teaching, and growing up in a Welsh-Chinese home

By Paul V. Griffith | September 30, 2010

September 30, 2010 Peter Ho Davies is author of the acclaimed novel The Welsh Girl, as well as two collections of short stories, The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love. His work has been much anthologized and has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among other publications. In 2003, Granta magazine included Davies on its top-twenty list, “Best of Young British Novelists.” He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and, in 2008, was a recipient of the Pen/Malamud Award. He took questions from Chapter 16 prior to his Nashville appearance at 7 p.m. on September 30 in Vanderbilt University’s Buttrick Hall, Room 203.

Angels in the Outback

Teen Australian author Alexandra Adornetto is poised to take the baton from Twilight’s Stephanie Meyer

By Lacey Galbraith | September 29, 2010

September 29, 2010 Vampires, zombies, and now angels: ever since Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight became the twenty-first century’s gold standard by which young adult romances are measured, publishing houses have been trying to hit upon the next soul-mates-and-supernatural YA love story. And thanks to Alexandra Adornetto’s Halo, the angels angle just might stick. Adornetto will read from the novel at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on October 1 at 4 p.m.

Give Us This Day

In Cornbread Nation 5, the Southern Foodways Alliance serves up some tasty kernels—and a little bit of pone

By Paul V. Griffith | September 28, 2010

September 28, 2010 Since 1999, the Southern Foodways Alliance has been spreading the gospel of Southern American cuisine. Under the umbrella of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, the SFA stages symposia, produces documentary films, and, every couple years or so, publishes a collection of essays and poems. The latest of these is Cornbread Nation 5: The Best of Southern Food Writing, edited by aptly named Fred W. Sauceman—author and host of the popular Food with Fred program on Johnson City’s WJHL-TV.

Close to the Bone

Pulitzer Prize-winner Claudia Emerson talks about writing deeply personal poems

By Maria Browning | September 27, 2010

September 27, 2010 Poet Claudia Emerson explored the painful terrain of divorce in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Late Wife. Her newest collection, Figure Studies, looks at the gender “schooling” of young women and its impact on their lives. She answered questions from Chapter 16 by email prior to her public reading on September 27 at 7 pm. at the University of Tennessee Library in Knoxville.

The Primacy of Plot

Nashville novelist Ann Patchett defends the notion of “story”

By Margaret Renkl | September 25, 2010

September 25, 2010 Young novelists “who have yet to learn the hard lesson that there really is no reinventing the wheel” may not understand why storytellers need to have an actual story to tell, but Ann Patchett likes a good plot: “As for me, I’m a great fan of a story,” she writes in today’s Wall Street Journal. “A tale well told can sweep up a reader in a way that dazzling characters, piercing language and startling ideas can’t manage on their own.

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