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Rights and Revolutions

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Liberty and Union, Rhodes College professor Timothy S. Huebner brings together an enormous body of scholarship on the secession crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction, compelling us to reconsider what we think we know about the era.

Rights and Revolutions

Carrying the Torch

Chapter 16 talks with master storyteller Lee Smith about her writing process and her fond memories of the annual Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. Smith will appear at this year’s festival on October 21-22.

Carrying the Torch

Southern Gothic Time Warp

Nashville-based photographer Kristine Potter melds murder ballads with Southern landscapes in Dark Waters.

Southern Gothic Time Warp

Bringing up the Dead

I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home braids the diary of a 19th-century spinster with a modern-day road trip story. With her signature dry humor and mastery of metaphor, Lorrie Moore leaves bodies in her wake.

Bringing up the Dead

Human Drama

Chris Offutt talks with Chapter 16 about the love that goes into his rural noir thrillers.

Human Drama

Gratitude and Loss

Angela Tucker is committed to opening a conversation about the complex, sometimes contradictory emotions around adoption, especially for transracial adoptees. Tucker will discuss her book You Should Be Grateful with Steve Haruch at The Porch in Nashville on June 10.

Gratitude and Loss

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