Events
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 6:00pm
Catfish Karkowsky at Davis-Kidd Booksellers (Memphis) -
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 5:00pm
Clarksville Writers' Conference at Austin Peay State University (Clarksville) -
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 5:30pm
Nikki Pendleton Wood at Metro Archives (Nashville) -
Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 9:00pm
Eileen Sisk at Ernest Tubb Record Shop (Nashville)
Masthead
Chapter 16 is a digital language & literature program of Humanities Tennessee
President:
Robert Cheatham
Director of Literature & Language Programs:
Serenity Gerbman
Director of Digital Programs:
Tim Henderson
Editor:
Margaret Renkl
Contributing Writers: Diann Blakely, Ralph Bowden, Maria Browning, Wayne Christeson, Susannah Felts, Lacey Galbraith, Liz Garrigan, Paul V. Griffith, Faye Jones, Paul McCoy, Fernanda Moore, Clay Risen, Chris Scott, Ed Tarkington, Michael Ray Taylor
Copyeditor:
Wayne Christeson
Editorial Board: Darnell Arnoult, Amy Dietrich, Tony Earley, John Egerton, Sylverna Ford, Silas House, Mary Grey James, Marilyn Kallet, Michael Knight, Catherine Landis, Randy Mackin, Jane Pinkston, Alice Randall, Fred Sauceman, Phyllis Tickle, Stephen Usery
Sponsored in part by:
Book Lovers, Fear Not
Ingram CEO Skip Prichard isn’t afraid of what lies ahead for publishing
by Margaret Renkl
July 30 This bulletin just in: the sky, contrary to earlier reports, is not falling. Books are not dying, beloved authors are not destined for the poorhouse, and neither the Kindle nor the iPad will murder serious literature. That’s what David “Skip” Prichard, CEO of the LaVergne-based Ingram Content Group, believes, at least. And if anyone should know whereof he speaks on this subject, surely it’s the guy in charge of running a company with 2.6 million books for sale.
Published Friday, 30 July 2010
I Think I Attract the Mentally Ill
An author on book tour encounters his public
by Robert Hicks
July 30, 2010 The truth was there before me from that first event at my local bookstore, when two devotees of a book they have never read—a man and a woman—got in a slugfest over who would be last to meet me, and the woman won. Somehow in the commotion, as the staff was ushering me out a side door, I knew in my heart that this was going to be a long book tour.
Published Friday, 30 July 2010
"Lighter"
by Blas Falconer
July 29, 2010 Blas Falconer is an assistant professor at Austin Peay State University, where he serves as the poetry editor of Zone 3 Magazine and Zone 3 Press. Falconer received his M.F.A. from the University of Maryland and his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He is the author of The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2006) and A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007), and his work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, New Delta Review, and the Baltimore Review. "Lighter" originally appeared in the Hampton-Sydney Review.
Published Thursday, 29 July 2010
Features
Briefly Noted
The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions: Including Balm for the Weary and the Wounded
Mercer University Press
173 pages
$18
"In 1861, Chaplain Quintard of the 1st Tennessee Regiment marched off to care for his soldiers as they joined the Army of Virginia. His 'Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions' was a very popular and widely distributed devotional manual used by many Confederate soldiers. In his booklet 'Balm for the Weary and Wounded' (1864), Quintard reached back often to the writers of the 'Oxford Movement', which was his theological underpinning. In addition to familiar prayers, collects, and hymns from the 'Book of Common Prayer,', he adds poems, sermons, and religious texts of this movement. … Students of the Civil War, reenactors, collectors, historians, and theologians will find these volumes of immeasurable value." —from the publisher |