There is no better gift than a story
I used to think about the longevity of gifts. What could be given that would be cherished for more than a handful of days or a couple of weeks? Finally, after I had a few years of teaching behind me, I figured it out: stories. Stories do not fade.
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Tom Perrotta delivers up-to-the-minute satire in Tracy Flick Can’t Win
The ambitious heroine of Election returns in Tom Perrotta’s latest novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Perrotta will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 16.
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In Megan Mayhew Bergman’s How Strange a Season, spirited women light out on their own
In Megan Mayhew Bergman’s new collection of fiction, How Strange a Season, tough women who are fed up with compromise and betrayal decide to scrap their lives and start anew, elsewhere.
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Michael Connelly discusses his popular detective series, his journalism background, and the future of the book
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: A former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly discusses with Chapter 16 the slow death of local newspapers; his latest Harry Bosch installment, Nine Dragons; electronic books; and his popular legal-series protagonist, Mickey Haller.
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Women push the boundaries in turn-of-the-century New Orleans
Two young women come together to take part in an all-female Mardi Gras krewe in Diane C. McPhail’s second novel, The Seamstress of New Orleans. McPhail will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on June 9.
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Woman of Light explores the persistence of stories
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut novel, Woman of Light, is about stories — who gets to tell them and which ones survive. Fajardo-Anstine will appear in conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 6.
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