Nancy Johnson’s People of Means is a timely meditation on race, family secrets, the weight of legacy, and resilience in the face of social change. Nancy Johnson will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the last decade, in which she blends the personal and the political in her unflinching prose, offering us her unique take on a wide array of topics. Gay will be a keynote speaker at Bookstock, held at the Benjamin L. Hooks Library in Memphis on May 3.
Author Marianne Richmond, best known for her award-winning children’s books, has written a powerful new memoir that provides a glimpse into her own troubled childhood with a neglectful mother and an undiagnosed illness. Richmond will discuss If You Were My Daughter at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 20.
The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
Sadeqa Johnson’s fifth novel, The House of Eve, is a story of young Black women in the pre-Roe era. Johnson will appear at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
In Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics, Keeda Haynes describes her own experience of the justice system she’s trying to reform.
