“What if pain—like love—is just a place brave people visit?” asks Momastery blogger Glennon Doyle Melton in her new memoir, Love Warrior. Today Melton speaks with Chapter 16 in advance of her appearance at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium on September 8, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, is more than the story of Vance’s still-young life: it is also a sharp, compelling analysis of anomie and social breakdown in modern America. Vance will discuss Hillbilly Elegy at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016.
Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Adam Rex join forces again in their newest picture book, an offbeat adventure about how books are made. They will both visit Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 5, 2016, to read to children and their parents.
Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea chronicles Erik Reece’s search for communities of people who embraced political, economic, social, and environmental “alternatives that now seem impossible but might soon prove inevitable.” Reece will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016. Festival events are free and open to the public.
In his latest crime novel, Jason Miller turns his attention to a nasty strain of white supremacy that’s rearing its head again in the economically-challenged parts of rural America. Miller will discuss Red Dog at Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 25, 2016, at 6:30 p.m., and at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16. Both events are free and open to the public.
Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is an extraordinary account of renters and landlords in Milwaukee. It forces the reader to understand the urban housing market as not just a consequence but also a cause of poverty. Desmond will be at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016. Festival events are free and open to the public.
