The Southern Festival of Books returns
From haunting novels to true tales of kitchen ghosts, explorations of grief to celebrations of song, the Southern Festival of Books brings it all. The festival will take place in Nashville at Bicentennial Mall, the Tennessee State Museum, and the Tennessee State Library & Archives, October 26-27.
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Renée Watson makes room for Black women in a divine exploration of family, friendship, and romance
Renée Watson’s debut adult novel, skin & bones, is an adoring love letter to fat Black women. Watson will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Tyler Mahan Coe limns a legendary country music marriage in Cocaine and Rhinestones
In Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Tyler Mahan Coe explains how the two greatest singers in country music history balanced conservatism and innovation in a blatantly commercial genre. Coe will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Joan Baez’s debut poetry collection excavates her painful past
Iconic folk singer and activist Joan Baez mines her life for catharsis in her first book of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance. Baez will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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In Valley So Low, Jared Sullivan details the long fight for justice after a TVA environmental disaster
In his first book, Valley so Low, Jared Sullivan, a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, Time, and The Bitter Southerner, tells the story of a decade-long legal battle for Tennessee workers sickened and killed by the coal sludge from the 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant disaster. Sullivan will appear at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin on October 15; Williamson County Public Library in Franklin on October 16; East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on October 17; ArtsBuild in Chattanooga on October 23; and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Historian David Greenberg explores John Lewis’ lifetime of making good trouble
John Lewis’ career in public affairs spanned over 60 years, and he came to embody past, present, and future. In John Lewis: A Life, historian David Greenberg explores how the civil rights icon’s moral compass guided him from decade to decade. David Greenberg will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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