Nashville poet Didi Jackson’s My Infinity explores the relationship between grief and nature through a rich companionship with the work and life of visionary Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint. Jackson will discuss My Infinity at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on November 17.
Between 2018 and 2020, Tennessee state officials killed seven men by electrocution or lethal injection, more than any other state in the country except Texas. In Death Row Welcomes You, journalist Steven Hale tells the stories of the condemned and the people who have come to know and love them. He also exposes the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and the hypocrisy of Tennessee governors. Hale will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
In We Burn Daylight, Bret Anthony Johnston evokes Romeo and Juliet’s teenage lovers amid a religious community’s fiery standoff with authorities that closely parallels the 1993 Waco siege. Bret Anthony Johnston will discuss We Burn Daylight at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
“It was real. A TV show that could literally alter the fabric of reality to change one’s life.” This is the premise of Peng Shepherd’s novel All This and More. Shepherd will discuss All This and More at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest book, There’s Always This Year, is part memoir and part essay, but it’s all about basketball in Ohio during the author’s 1990s childhood. Abdurraqib will discuss There’s Always This Year at the Riverview Park Amphitheater in Chattanooga on October 30.
In What We’ve Become, Vanderbilt professor Jonathan Metzl demonstrates why gun reform has failed and offers new strategies for changing the debate. Metzl will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
