February 5, 2015 In See How Small, Scott Blackwood uses the 1991 yogurt-shop murders in Austin as the inspiration for a novel that expresses the ineradicable damage tragedy inflicts on survivors. Blackwood will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 12, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
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February 4, 2015 Told from the shifting perspectives of three women, The Girl on the Train by British novelist Paula Hawkins is a tautly paced crime story about the disappearance of one of the narrators. The complex personalities in this tour de force prove to be as suspenseful as the novel’s masterful whodunit. Paula Hawkins will appear at the Nashville Public Library on February 8, 2015, at 3 p.m.
February 3, 2014 In her new novel, The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah highlights the bravery of ordinary women during World War II in a heartbreaking story that’s impossible to forget. Hannah will discuss The Nightingale on February 9, 2015, at Parnassus Books in Nashville at 6:30 p.m.
January 27, 2015 In I Was Here, bestselling author Gayle Forman has created a powerful story about an eighteen-year-old girl’s search for the reasons behind her best friend’s suicide. Forman will be joined by fellow young-adult authors Ruta Sepetys, David Arnold, and Courtney Stevens at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 30, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
January 26, 2015 In her new collection, Do Not Rise, Nashville poet Beth Bachmann writes about war and its aftermath with unflinching insight. Bachmann will read from her work on January 29, 2015, at 7 p. m. on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville. The event, which also includes a reading by Vanderbilt novelist Tony Earley, is free and open to the public.
January 23, 2015 The Door of Hope Writing Group in Memphis is a weekly meet-up for homeless writers. The nonprofit’s new project, Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness, chronicles both the hard times and big breakthroughs of writers living on the street.
