Reckless Awe
Jeff Hardin’s latest poetry collection, Coming into an Inheritance, offers a balm for our chaotic times through poems that convey the grace of nature and the power of art.
So Old Hollywood
In her new novel Typewriter Beach, New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton skewers the Golden Age of Hollywood while exploring what it means to grieve. Clayton will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Real Powers
In her latest novel, A Spell for Change, Nicole Jarvis writes about three young people in 1920 Appalachia who are blessed — or cursed — with magic. Jarvis will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 22.
Normal Life Impossible
In her latest story collection, Hellions, Julia Elliott reimagines the grotesque on her own terms.
Invincible Language
Major Jackson’s sixth poetry collection, Razzle Dazzle, sets the biographical details of the poet’s life alongside the evolution of his work. Jackson will give a reading at the CMAC Building at Lane College in Jackson on April 2, and he will appear with Jad Abumrad at Analog at Hutton Hotel in Nashville on April 8.
Never Leave Us Alone
I must have refreshed her profile page a hundred times, hoping nobody snagged her. Finally, we drove over to the shelter where we watched an employee unlock the front doors. I waited a respectful two minutes before barging inside, asking if we could meet Penny.
