Jennifer Weiner talks with Chapter 16 about her debut book for children
Bestselling novelist Jennifer Weiner talks with Chapter 16 about gender inequality, what kids can achieve when they question their culture, and her debut children’s book, The Littlest Bigfoot. Weiner will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on September 16, 2016, at 4 p.m.
A former slave struggles to know what justice might look like after the murder of her son
In The Orphan Mother, Robert Hicks revisits the setting and characters of his debut novel, The Widow of the South, at the dawn of Reconstruction. During the next month, Hicks will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville, Books-a-Million in Mt. Juliet, The Franklin Theatre in Franklin, The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis, and the Southern Festival of Books.
Ann Patchett’s new novel, Commonwealth, asks an age-old question
Ann Patchett’s new novel, Commonwealth, asks a question to keep you up at night, a question to trouble your soul under certain moons: What if? Patchett will read from Commonwealth at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on September 12, 2016, at 6:15 p.m., and at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16. Both events are free and open to the public.
Novelist Lauren Groff headlines the 2016 Mid-South Book Festival
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff’s third novel, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in fiction. Groff will be among seventy writers at the 2016 Mid-South Book Festival, held in Memphis September 9-11, 2016. Today she speaks with Chapter 16 about marriage, the trials of portraying anger and death in fiction, and the pleasures of writing in longhand.
Sharon Cameron’s latest YA fantasy is a meditation on truth and memory
“I’ve been taught to write truth in my book since I was old enough to hold a pen. Our books are our sole identity after the Forgetting, the string that connects us to who we were before,” explains the teenage hero of Sharon Cameron’s newest YA fantasy, The Forgetting. Cameron will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 8, 2016, and at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016.
Glennon Doyle Melton talks with Chapter 16 about the cultural biases that inhibit authentic love
“What if pain—like love—is just a place brave people visit?” asks Momastery blogger Glennon Doyle Melton in her new memoir, Love Warrior. Today Melton speaks with Chapter 16 in advance of her appearance at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium on September 8, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
