Southern Word connects young people to their voices, each other By Ciona Rouse, for Chapter16.org Benjamin Smith doesn’t really believe in the extraordinary young person.…
Read More Power in the WordTag: Chapter16
Not as Different as We Think
Elizabeth Passarella on being a “muddled mashup of everything” By Sara Beth West, for Chapter16.org Raised in a conservative corner of Memphis, Elizabeth Passarella now…
Read More Not as Different as We ThinkThe Light of Truth
Michelle Duster delivers an intimate biography of Ida B. Wells By Kashif Andrew Graham, for Chapter16.org Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy…
Read More The Light of TruthLive and Let Spy
In Sometimes You Have to Lie, Leslie Brody traces the origin story of an author and her fictional heroine By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org At first…
Read More Live and Let SpyCorey Mesler: The Bard of Memphis
Corey Mesler’s hippie poet returns in The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros By David Bersell, for Chapter16.org Corey Mesler’s The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros follows its titular…
Read More Corey Mesler: The Bard of MemphisWhy Merle Haggard Deserves a Nobel Prize
Peter Guralnick discusses his latest book, Looking to Get Lost By Jim Patterson, for Chapter16.org If Peter Guralnick only accomplished rescuing Elvis Presley from the bilious…
Read More Why Merle Haggard Deserves a Nobel PrizeThis Is How I Saved Myself
Tina Turner shares her spiritual practice of 50 years By Tina Chambers, for Chapter16.org In Tina Turner’s new book, Happiness Becomes You, she advises readers to ask…
Read More This Is How I Saved MyselfMaDear’s Scrapbook
A granddaughter discovers an unexpected legacy of memories, questions, and untold stories By Lori D. Johnson for Chapter16.org For years, I thought I was the…
Read More MaDear’s ScrapbookA Great Southern Voice
Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works By Susannah Felts for Chapter16.org Rick Bragg is one of the great Southern voices of…
Read More A Great Southern VoicePutting the Music First
Memphis Mayhem is an insider’s history of the city’s sound By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org Ah, Memphis, the Southern capital of sin and song —…
Read More Putting the Music First