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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

Not Just Another Word

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: With Freedom’s Dominion, Jefferson Cowie spins a dark, intricate tale of white, racist, anti-statist ideas of freedom in Alabama, revealing a sprawling history of white resistance to federal power. The book recently received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in history.

Not Just Another Word

The Myth and the Man

With King: A Life, Jonathan Eig has written the definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr. for this generation. Eig will discuss King: A Life at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 1.

The Myth and the Man

Arguing For Democracy

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Why We Argue (and How We Should), Vanderbilt University philosophy professors Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse set ground rules for the kind of productive, democratic disagreement that they say is fundamental to a civil life. 

Arguing For Democracy

Memories of Massacre

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: With Remembering the Memphis Massacre, a collection of essays by notable historians, editors Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan bring to light a forgotten chapter in Southern history and explain how it shaped the future of American democracy. 

Memories of Massacre

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