John T. Edge talks about The Potlikker Papers, the Nashville Reads title for 2018
John T. Edge parses sixty years of Southern history in The Potlikker Papers, the 2018 selection for Nashville Reads.
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Joseph Rosenbloom talks with Chapter 16 about the final days of Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 3, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis to lead a nonviolent march in support of striking sanitation workers. The next day, he was murdered. In Redemption, Joseph Rosenbloom describes those thirty-one hours with rich detail and compelling analysis. Rosenbloom will speak at Novel in Memphis on April 23 and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 26.
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Lucy Branam introduces readers to a friendly neighborhood octopus
In the realm of children’s literature, there exists a long tradition of wild but friendly creatures making themselves comfortable in the homes of children. In Lucy Branam’s debut picture book, Roof Octopus, a young girl wakes up to find an octopus on the roof of her apartment building. Branam will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 14.
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Helene Dunbar discusses her latest YA novel, Boomerang
Teenagers often have questions about their identity, but Sean Woodhouse is more confused than most. In the five years since he disappeared from home, he’s acquired a new name, a new family, and a new relationship. Helene Dunbar will discuss Boomerang, her new young-adult novel, at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 9.
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Linda Williams Jackson talks with Chapter 16 about race, class, and courage
In A Sky Full of Stars, the sequel to Linda Williams Jackson’s Midnight Without a Moon, scrappy teenager Rosa Carter watches the civil-rights movement unfold and picks up a picket sign herself. Jackson will appear at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Memphis on February 17.
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Nashville nonfiction author Jefferson Cowie reinterprets the New Deal and its legacy
Jefferson Cowie’s The Great Exception challenges our understanding of the New Deal and its implications for today. The Nashville-based nonfiction author will deliver the Belle McWilliams Lecture in American History at the University of Memphis on February 15.
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