Hannah Pittard’s latest novel, If You Love It, Let It Kill You, depicts a novelist who finds herself the villain of a novel written by her ex-husband. Pittard will discuss If You Love It, Let It Kill You at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
With her latest Lady Astronaut novel, The Martian Contingency, Mary Robinette Kowal leans into a feminism that embraces multiculturalism, antiracism, and disability theory, confronting historical stereotypes in both playful and serious ways. Kowal will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Paul Burch gets in the head of country music legend Jimmie Rodgers in his novel Meridian Rising. Burch will appear at Memphis Listening Lab on October 8 and the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense, Joe Manchin describes how he rose to political power as a Democrat, then quit the party when he felt it no longer reflected his values. The book is a political memoir that passionately warns his fellow Americans of the dangers of putting party ahead of country. He will discuss Dead Center in a conversation with Brad Paisley at Vanderbilt University on September 17.
In The Shape of Wonder scientists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees attempt to counter the growing mistrust of scientific institutions around the world by helping readers “understand scientists as people and what they actually do, how they think, work, and live.”
In Eliana Ramage’s debut novel, To the Moon and Back, Steph Harper is a queer Cherokee girl whose sole ambition is to become the first Cherokee astronaut.
