Steve Stern’s The Frozen Rabbi is an absurd, exuberant, razor-sharp family saga
Steve Stern’s 2010 novel The Frozen Rabbi follows the travels and travails of a Jewish family and their extraordinary heirloom. Stern will appear at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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Margaret Renkl on beauty, climate change, and her literary devotional, The Comfort of Crows
Essayist and New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl brings her keen eye and tender observations to her Nashville backyard in The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Renkl will appear in Nashville at David Lusk Gallery on October 14, the 2023 Southern Festival of Books on October 21-22, and Harpeth Hall School on October 24; at The Book & Cover in Chattanooga on November 6; St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Knoxville on November 13; and Novel in Memphis on December 4.
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Good women don’t always behave well in Halle Hill’s debut story collection
With Good Women, East Tennessee native Halle Hill has crafted a book of stories worth reading straight through from the first page. Hill will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on September 19.
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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on music, animals, and the chaotic joy of spring
Chapter 16 talks with Ada Limón, a poet whose work is grounded in the physical world, delighting in nature and urging readers toward curiosity and wonder. Limón will appear at Green Door Gourmet Farm in Nashville on May 4.
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Mary-Alice Daniel’s debut poetry collection interrogates our sense of order
Mary-Alice Daniel’s Mass for Shut-Ins is the winner of the 2022 Yale Younger Poets Prize. The poems in this debut collection ask readers to live inside a porousness of borders, both physical and mental.
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Steve Stern paints a fictional portrait of Chaim Soutine
Steve Stern’s The Village Idiot, a fictionalized account of the life of painter Chaim Soutine, dives into the relationships, politics, and context that shaped his often overlooked masterworks. Stern will appear at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on October 13.
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