September 2, 2015 Jack London was a writer and a fighter. As Vanderbilt professor Cecelia Tichi notes, London’s writing worked to fight against the wealth inequality and labor exploitation of his day. Tichi will discuss Jack London: A Writer’s Fight for a Better America at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015.
September 1, 2015 With his new collection of short fiction, Cries for Help, Various, Padgett Powell provides a lively medley of voices that live up to the author’s dicta that fiction should “be alive” and “be surprising.” Powell will read from and discuss his new book at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015.
August 31, 2015 Irrepressible: The Jazz Age of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham recovers the fascinating story of the author’s great-aunt, a violet-eyed, cherub-faced beauty who captivated social and cultural elites on both sides of the Atlantic with her hard-drinking, bohemian ways. Bingham will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015.
August 28, 2015 First-time novelist Tom Cooper delivers a profane and rollicking tale of obsession and absurdity in The Marauders. Cooper will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015.
August 27, 2015 Barry Wolverton’s The Vanishing Island is a story of big dreams and of breaking away. It is a story of seeking riches, and the way deeply hidden treasure is somehow more valuable than easily obtained wealth. Wolverton will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on September 3, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. He will also appear on a panel with Kristin O’Donnell Tubb at the Mid-South Book Festival in Memphis on September 12 at 2:30 p.m.
August 26, 2015 In her debut poetry collection, Caroline Randall Williams explores a game-changing theory that Shakespeare’s Dark Lady was a London madam named Black Luce. Williams will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015. All festival events are free and open to the public.
