The Booksellers at Laurelwood is closing, but hopes are high that another store will rise from its ashes
After thirty-two years in business, The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis has announced that it is closing. But readers in Memphis have good reason to hope the disaster can still be reversed.
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Authors around the country rally to support a bookseller with cancer
When Stephanie Appell, manager of the young-readers department at Parnassus Books, was diagnosed breast cancer, her colleagues planned a unique fundraiser to help with her medical bills: more than a hundred authors around the country have each decorated–and signed–a ceramic piggy bank to auction at the Bank on Booksellers fundraiser.
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Poet Caroline Randall Williams returns to Nashville to take a new post at Fisk
Nashville native Caroline Randall Williams will be the new writer-in-residence at Fisk University, a post her grandfather also served.
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The twenty-eighth annual Southern Festival of Books will bring more than 250 authors to Nashville
July 11, 2016 Today Humanities Tennessee announced a lineup of award-winning, bestselling authors who will headline the twenty-eighth annual Southern Festival of Books, which will be held at Legislative Plaza in Nashville October 14-16, 2016. All festival events are free and open to the public.
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Summer will bring a bounty of new books by writers around the state
May 23, 2016 In the coming weeks, look for new titles from suspense writers, poets, children’s authors, and novelists of every stripe.
Chapter 16 is launching a series to celebrate prize-winning works from Tennessee history
May 9, 2016 This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, and Humanities Tennessee has received a grant from the Pulitzer organization to celebrate the centennial by highlighting past prizewinners from our state.
