Events
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Friday, March 12, 2010 - 7:00pm
Eric Durchholz, Jason Jordan, and Lydia Ship at Portland Brew East (Nashville) -
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:00pm
Jennie Bentley at Davis-Kidd Booksellers (Nashville) -
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 1:00pm
Chuck Klosterman at Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro) -
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 7:00pm
Bich Minh Nguyen at Vanderbilt University (Nashville) -
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 12:00pm
Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards at the East Tennessee History Center (Knoxville)
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, Paul V. Griffith, Laura Hileman, Faye Jones, Paul McCoy, Fernanda Moore, Clay Risen, Chris Scott, Michael Ray Taylor
Interns: Natalia Barker, Katie Frensley, Caroline McCoy
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
Chapter 16 site name credit:
Susannah Felts
Chapter 16 logo credit:
Billy Renkl
Chapter 16 photo credit:
Peter Goodwin
Editor's Note
What's new in Tennessee books—and at Chapter 16—on March 11, 2010
by Margaret Renkl
Nashville debut novelist Adam Ross is keeping Stephen King up at night, Jon Meacham adds a weekly television show to his to-do list, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks hits the number-two slot on The New York Times bestseller list—and its author, Rebecca Skloot, is tapped for an appearance on The Colbert Report.
Published Thursday, 11 March 2010
Teaching and Unteaching—and Entertaining All the Way
For more than three decades, Patricia McKissack has been writing children's books that bring to life the stories, and the truth, of her ancestors
by Susannah Felts
As she was coming of age in Nashville in the 1950s, there were many places award-winning children's author Patricia McKissack was not allowed to go. She remembers hotels and restaurants that forbade African Americans entry, and movie theaters with a separate doorway in the alley for black patrons. The farthest reaches of the Grand Ole Opry's balcony, known as the buzzard's roost, was the only seating open to African Americans, McKissack recalls. She never partook: "My grandfather said that watermelons would bloom in January if any of his children went down there. 'We don't sit in no buzzard's roost,' he said. 'We're human beings, not buzzards.'"
Published Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Thou Shalt Not!
Christian writer and music-business escapee Matthew Paul Turner tells of his journey away from fundamentalism
by Paul V. Griffith
When Paul Matthew Turner left his home in Virginia to attend Nashville's Belmont University, he didn't know what he was in for. Compared to his fundamentalist childhood, Belmont was a devil's playground where plaid-shirted hipsters smoked clove cigarettes and listened to Amy Grant. Like a spiritual version of High Fidelity, Hear No Evil describes the way music helped Turner come to terms with this more-worldly version of the Christian faith. With a sly sense of humor and a mid-nineties soundtrack playing in his head, Turner discovers that Christianity is less a series of proscriptions than it is a way of living in a sometimes far-from-perfect world.
Published Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Briefly Noted
Dog Joy: The Happiest Dogs in the Universe
Rodale
192 pages
$16.99
"Sometimes the best moments in human relationships are the ones in which we have the self-restraint to say nothing at all, to demonstrate our love and our joy instead of trying to break down the experience and reshape it into words. This is the genius of dogs, one of the many geniuses of dogs—they have the nonverbal-expression thing down cold. And if we're reading too much into everything they're not saying, then so be it. They'll forgive us. They always do." —Ann Patchett, from the foreword to Dog Joy |
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