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Kevin, Meet Nicole

November 11, 2011 The news that Nicole Kidman, Nashville’s resident movie star, had acquired the rights to The Family Fang, the debut novel by Sewanee’s resident bestselling fiction writer, comes as a surprise to no one who’s read this very cinematic novel about the troubled adult children of two passionate performance artists. (Kidman plans to play the role of Annie Fang.) It comes as news to no one except, perhaps, the book’s author, Kevin Wilson. Chapter 16 caught up with Wilson at the Meacham Writers’ Workshop in Chattanooga and asked him about the movie news:

Victorian Secrets and Lies

October 28, 2011 Members of the Victorian upper crust, like rich people of all times, feared losing their money. They were afraid their children wouldn’t make good marriages. They worried about keeping reliable servants. But, as former Franklin novelist Tasha Alexander clearly understands, the greatest fear of Victorian society was the loss of respectability. The perp in Alexander’s latest Victorian mystery, A Crimson Warning, plays on this fear as Lady Emily Hargreaves and her husband Colin race to find the culprit before the bodies stack up.

Great Self-Doubt—and Intense Dedication

October 27, 2011 In Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s charming collection of linked stories, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a young seventh-grade English teacher, Beatrice Hempel, offers lovingly detailed observations of a middle-school ecosystem—observations that are immediately resonant and often suffused with wry humor, both for readers who have taught and those who have done time in those locker-lined halls only as students. Bynum answered questions from Chapter 16 prior to her reading at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on November 3 at 7 p.m.

Great Self-Doubt—and Intense Dedication

Living In a Gray Area

October 26, 2011 Court Gentry lives in a morally ambiguous world. In Ballistic by Memphis novelist Mark Greaney, the ex-CIA assassin brings his unique fighting skills to bear against some of the most violent people on earth—the Mexican drug cartels. The action is fast and deadly, and the shadows dark and deep, in this third outing for one of the thriller genre’s newest heroes.

Can Southern Girls Go Home Again?

October 25, 2011 In Yankee Doodle Dixie, Franklin resident Lisa Patton brings her popular character Leelee Satterfield home to Memphis after a tumultuous and cold year in Vermont. Leelee believes that all will be well once she returns to Tennessee. But will she be able to settle back into her old life? Does she want to? Patton will read from and discuss the book as part of the Evening with an Author series at the University Club of Nashville on October 27 at 6 p.m.

Murder on Music Row: A Music Industry Thriller

Murder on Music Row: A Music Industry Thriller

Stuart Dill

John F. Blair
344 pages
$14.95

“Dill, who has served as personal manager for Minnie Pearl, Billy Ray Cyrus and other notables in the Nashville country music world, brings his insider’s expertise to his solid debut, a mystery thriller…The conclusion is stunning.”

Publishers Weekly

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