Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Book Excerpt: The Lost Country

In Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1952, and the characters in this forthcoming novel by William Gay are stunned by brightness of the sun

…when the white Ford convertible came around the corner. A Crown Victoria with the top down though the day was cool and Edgewater had been sitting in the sun for…

Ms. Cheap Talks Love

Mary Hance releases a new book of marriage advice, and there’s not a coupon among the tips

There is probably no other Tennessean columnist—nor any journalist in Nashville, for the that matter—who is more connected to the daily’s readers than Mary Hance, known to the masses as…

Cool with the Lines

Eighties pop phenomenon Rick Springfield is back in the headlines with a tell-all memoir

…have diaries all through the seventies—and I before I started writing the book I thought, “Well, I’ll probably really use these.” But once I started getting into the story, every…

The $254,500 Typewriter

What’s new in Tennessee books—and at Chapter 16—on December 10, 2009

…this week’s issue, a review of the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road) and links to other stories around the web that might appeal to parents. French is writing…

Biography

…academic home, and she remains there to this day. She lives with her daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami. [Source: AManetteAnsay.com]…

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