Shining Our Book-Signal Up Into the Sky
November 23, 2015 With hosts J.T. Ellison and Mary Laura Philpott, Nashville Public Television has launched a new format for the late John Seigenthaler’s celebrated author-interview program, A Word on Words.
Features
Delicious Words
October 28, 2015 The story of Valentino Achak Deng’s torturous journey as a “lost boy” of the Sudanese civil war—pursued by lions, vultures, and crocodiles, as well as “human killers”—became the celebrated 2006 novel What Is the What by Dave Eggers. Deng and Eggers are headliners for the 2015 Memphis Reads program, which will offer two free public events on November 4th and 5th.
A Killer Conference
October 23, 2015 Now in its tenth year, the Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference connects writers with agents, editors, and publishers. Killer Nashville will be held at the Nashville Omni Hotel on October 29-November 1, 2015. In addition to the ticketed conference, a free public event, Killer Nashville BookCon, will be held at the Nashville Omni Hotel on October 31 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will include author presentations, book signings, exhibitors, and book vendors.
Book Excerpt: Rick Bragg’s My Southern Journey
October 7, 2015 “I listen for the past, but I cannot hear it. The juke joints fall silent, cotton mills wind down to a final, solitary thread, and a last buck dancer shuffles off into the mountain mist. Then I see my brother Mark in his garden, and know that not everything must fade away.” Rick Bragg will discuss My Southern Journey on October 10, 2015, at noon in Conference Room 1 of the Nashville Public Library. The event, part of the Southern Festival of Books, is free and open to the public.
Simple Living in the Suburbs
August 6, 2015 Deanna Caswell, who writes the popular blog Little House in the Suburbs, has just published a beautiful new picture book, Beach House. A homeschooler and homesteader, Caswell writes regularly about self-sufficiency in the suburbs. Today Chapter 16 takes a look behind the scenes.
The Wisest, and Justest, and Best
July 10, 2015 John Seigenthaler, who died last year on July 11, was perhaps the most central and admirable personality that defined the Nashville I lived in during the 1970s. He was the apotheosis of integrity and of all that was serious and good. Anybody who knew him, even if they were his political opposites, held him in lofty esteem for the moral, thoughtful, and inspiringly intelligent human being he was.
