Award-winning writer Karen Salyer McElmurray’s collection of essays, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways, is many things at once: memoir, travelogue, and prayer. McElmurray reflects on her upbringing in rural Kentucky, her adventurous youth traveling the world, and her career as a writer and professor.
More than 150 authors, including Renée Watson, Erik Larson, Ace Atkins, and Joan Baez, will appear for panels, book signings, readings, and discussions at Bicentennial Mall in Nashville on October 26 and 27.
We’re taking a little vacation, but we’ll return on July 29 with a full schedule of interviews, reviews, and bookish news. Meanwhile, happy reading!
We’re taking our regular winter break. Happy holidays to all, and we’ll see you in the new year.
For Artifice, her third young adult novel set during World War II, Nashville author Sharon Cameron paints a colorful and suspenseful thriller inspired by historical heroes and villains living in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Cameron will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 7.
We’re taking our regular summer break at Chapter 16, but be sure to check in on July 20 for an update about this fall’s Southern Festival of Books.
