Lee Dorman’s new collection of photographs documents the history of Nashville’s Jews
In Nashville’s Jewish Community, Lee Dorman has compiled more than 200 photographs from the Annette Levy Ratkin Jewish Community Archive, creating a visual chronicle of the city’s Jewish citizens from 1850 to 1950. Dorman will sign copies of his book at Barnes & Noble Bookseller in Brentwood on April 3 at 1 p.m.
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Martin Wilson’s debut novel brings gay coming-of-age tales out of the YA closet
The debut novel from Martin Wilson is a welcome contribution to the small but growing genre of young-adult novels about first love between gay teens. The romance in What They Always Tell Us is wrapped in an authentic portrayal of contemporary, upper-middle-class teenage life. In its portrait of two brothers, the novel also offers an uplifting look at the challenges to—and triumphs of—family loyalty.
Read moreMusic journalist Barry Mazor will appear Sunday on public television’s A Word on Words
April 2, 2010 John Seigenthaler will interview Barry Mazor, author of Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, on the April 4 edition of A Word on Words. The program airs on Nashville Public Television at 10:30 on Sunday morning. Learn more about A Word on Words here, and read Paul McCoy’s interview with Mazor for Chapter 16 here.
Read moreIn an age of big-box retail and multi-ethnic migration, can a distinctly Southern literature survive?
A friend of mine spent his childhood “playing church” and arguing over whose turn it was to preach and whose to be saved. And a relative recently attended a wedding reception where the centerpiece was a whole hog, smoking away in a homemade smoker on a trailerbed still hitched to the pick-up truck. When the owner got mad about something or other, he got in and drove away, pulling the smoking hog on the trailer behind him. (More potato salad, anyone?) These stories are true, and funny, and Southern. But they are also potential fodder for some bad Southern fiction.
Read moreChapter 16 begins publishing daily
April 1, 2010 When Humanities Tennessee launched Chapter 16 last October, we held our collective breath a bit, wondering whether there were enough book lovers to sustain a literary website even as newspapers around the state were cutting their books coverage or shuttering their book sections altogether.
Read moreHeather Armstrong participates in White House forum on work-life balance
March 31, 2010 Today, on one day’s notice, mommy-blogger and Memphis native Heather Armstrong, author of It Sucked and Then I Cried, dropped everything and flew to D.C. at the invitation of the White House. Her role: to explain to the president of the United States how hard it is to be a working parent.
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