A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Wine, Dine, and Murder

In The Professor, Lauren Nossett’s sophomore novel, former detective Marlitt Kaplan returns to university politics when her mother asks for her help in a Title IX investigation of a German professor. Lauren Nossett will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

Hope Is the Thing

Between Gone and Everlasting, Danita Dodson’s most recent poetry collection, explores the many facets of grief after the loss of a parent. Dodson will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 10.

Hope Is the Thing

Maple Syrup and Mustachioed Men

Jeff Mann’s Loving Mountains, Loving Men, a hybrid work of poetry and memoir, explores the struggle and resilience of the LGBTQ community in Appalachia. Mann will discuss the book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 9.

Troubled Paradise

Stephen Hundley returns to Georgia as his literary stomping ground in his debut novel, Bomb Island, featuring a defunct sunken-bomb-turned-tourist-attraction and a tiger named Sugar.

Calling for a Hearing

The poems in Darnell Arnoult’s Incantations investigate the complexities of human and ethereal existence, mapping the paradoxes of life.

A River’s Tale

Operation Pied Piper, initiated by the British government in September 1939, relocated thousands of children in an effort to protect them from war bombing. In Patti Callahan Henry’s novel The Secret Book of Flora Lea, young sisters Hazel and Flora find themselves displaced with so many others, thrust into a terrifying adventure. Henry will appear at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on April 2.

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