Jay McInerney’s familiar characters look back while their children forge ahead
In See You on the Other Side, the concluding novel in a tetralogy depicting a glamorous Manhattan couple, Jay McInerney balances nostalgia for the riotous past with concerns for a doubtful future. McInerney will discuss See You on the Other Side at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 17-18.
In Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, a map of colonization unfolds
Jeff Apter surveys the life of rock’s premier ballad singer
The festival, presented by Humanities Tennessee and Vanderbilt University, will host more than 175 authors in Nashville on October 17-18.
Acclaimed novelist Kevin Powers turns his formidable gifts to a story of young Virginians and the horrors of World War I
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