In this session from the 2008 Southern Festival of Books, author Ann Patchett reads from and discusses her latest book, Run. This session was recorded live at the House Chambers of the State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee on October 12, 2008. For more podcasts, visit our feed at http://www.chapter16.org/podcast.xml.
Read moreThe Prize in the Cereal Box
A Nashville nanny enters a Cheerios contest … and wins a publishing contract
Nashville nanny Shellie Braeuner didn’t learn about the first Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories Children’s Book Contest until the final day to enter. Undaunted, she came up with a charming rhyme about bathing the family dog and entered the contest online, barely in time to pick up the older children from school. Despite a typo in the title, The Great Dog Wash beat out a thousand other entries to win the grand prize—five thousand dollars and the chance at a hardcover publishing contract.
Read moreDavid Maraniss at the 2008 Southern Festival of Books
In this session from the 2008 Southern Festival of Books, author David Maraniss reads from and discusses his latest book, Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World. This session was recorded live at the House Chambers of the State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee on October 11, 2008. For more podcast episodes, visit our feed at http://www.chapter16.org/podcast.xml.
Read moreNot Your Father's Tennessee Vols
In On Rocky Top, Nashville sportswriter Clay Travis turns UT football’s worst season into a study of contemporary college athletics
When Clay Travis got a book deal to cover the 2008 University of Tennessee football team, he had no idea he was about to witness the worst season in the program’s 110-year history. The hapless Volunteers won only one of six Southeastern Conference matchups during their twelve-game schedule, which also saw the firing of coaching legend Phil Fulmer. For Travis, a lifetime UT fan, the losses resonated far beyond the arches of Neyland Stadium, the Vols’ home. On Rocky Top channels Travis’s disappointment into a riveting analysis of what’s at stake in the increasingly mercenary world of college athletics.
Read moreFinding the Energy to Move
Amanda Little traces the origins of America’s oil dependence—and investigates options for the future
Amanda Little has been doing some traveling. After the great northeast blackout of August 2003, the Nashville environmental journalist decided that she wanted to learn the nuts and bolts—or, more appropriately, the barrels and watts—of America’s energy infrastructure. She investigates the ways in which energy shapes our lives and considers possible options for the future, now that our addiction to fossil fuels is becoming untenable. The result is Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—A Ride to Our Renewable Future.
Read moreHoneymoon Pleasures
In her fifth Lady Emily mystery, Tasha Alexander’s Victorian heroine discovers the many benefits of married life, the exotic beauties of Constantinople—and the real killer of a diplomat’s daughter
Lady Emily Ashton has never lacked confidence. In the deft hands of her creator, former Nashvillian Tasha Alexander, this widowed nineteenth-century beauty drinks port with the boys, studies ancient Greek, solves murders (including that of her late husband), and clears the falsely accused. In her latest adventure, Tears of Pearl: A Novel of Suspense, Lady Emily is as stylish as ever, and newly married to the handsome Colin Hargreaves.
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