WordStream, a Knoxville-based reading series, showcases an exciting cross section of writers
WordStream: The Weekly Writer’s Voice, a reading series launched earlier this year in Knoxville, provides a stage for an exciting array of writers and performers. The show is recorded live each Friday on the WDVX Stage at the Knoxville Visitors Center.
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Musical savant and indie rock icon Ben Folds delivers a quirky, iconoclastic memoir
In A Dream About Lightning Bugs, indie rock icon Ben Folds uses his quirky upbringing and iconoclastic career to illustrate music’s power to form, heal, and inspire. Folds will sign A Dream About Lightning Bugs at the Nashville Public Library on August 9.
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Karl Marlantes’ Deep River is a sweeping epic of the immigrant experience in the Pacific Northwest
Karl Marlantes, author of the bestselling novel Matterhorn, returns with Deep River, a sprawling tale about the lives of three Finnish immigrants. Marlantes will discuss Deep River at Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 13.
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A fiercely independent teen must learn how to trust and rely on others
In Better Than the Best Plan, Lauren Morrill’s teenage protagonist finds herself unexpectedly tossed into the foster care system.
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David Cady explores the rise, fall, and reformation of a Pentecostal church in Religion of Fear
In Religion of Fear, David Cady tells the shocking tale of how easily well-meaning people can be seduced by evil dressed in “the brows of grace.” Cady will discuss the book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on August 4.
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A young woman seeks to unravel her family’s dark secret
House of Salt and Sorrows follows a young heiress as she grapples with a mysterious family curse. Erin A. Craig will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on August 6 and Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 24.
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