Nikki Giovanni’s most recent collection centers on joy and pain
Celebrated poet, children’s author, essayist, and activist Nikki Giovanni will deliver the Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville on April 5.
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Alan Lightman revisits eternal questions in Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
In a new collection of essays, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, Memphis native and acclaimed novelist Alan Lightman seeks to reconcile the material and the mystical.
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A historian considers Taylor Branch’s The King Years
Taylor Branch is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of The King Years, a selection of excerpts from his trilogy on the civil-rights movement. Branch will deliver the keynote address of the MLK50 symposium at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn on April 3.
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In Ashley Herring Blake’s Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World, a young girl considers her own identity
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World is Ashley Herring Blake’s new middle-grade novel about one girl’s quest to understand friendship, identity, and Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
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Ann Fisher-Wirth and Maude Schuyler Clay explore a state’s compelling character in Mississippi
In Mississippi, poet Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographer Maude Schuyler Clay create a nuanced portrait that transcends the usual Southern stereotypes. Both authors will appear at Burke’s Books in Memphis on March 29 at 5:30 p.m.
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A Manhattan professional weathers major life changes in Anna Quindlen’s new novel
In Alternate Side, bestselling novelist Anna Quindlen writes a bittersweet love letter to Manhattan, as well as a meditation on the passage of time. Quindlen will appear at the Nashville Public Library on March 28.
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