May 23, 2016 In the coming weeks, look for new titles from suspense writers, poets, children’s authors, and novelists of every stripe.
The Good News Just Keeps Coming
Summer will bring a bounty of new books by writers around the state
Praise Song
On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Roots, poet Nikki Giovanni remembers the hope Alex Haley offered at a perilous time
May 20, 2016 In the second of a nine-essay series commemorating the centennial year of the Pulitzer Prizes, poet Nikki Giovanni reflects on the enduring legacy of Alex Haley’s Roots, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977.
Not the Most Boring Family Ever, Actually
May 19, 2016 Prior to his appearance at the Arts Building in Chattanooga on May 20, 2016, and at Parnassus Books in Nashville the following day, Harrison Scott Key spoke with Chapter 16 about waking up to the understanding that “everybody has a weird family,” and that his own family was pretty near the top of the weirdness scale.
Unspeakable Gift
In Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, LaRose, grief unfolds in a multi-generational tale of justice and atonement
May 18, 2016 In Louise Erdrich’s mesmerizing new novel, LaRose, two neighboring households straddling the border of the Ojibwe reservation become permanently entangled in matters of justice and grief after the accidental shooting of a young boy. Erdrich will appear alongside novelist Jane Hamilton as part of the Nashville Public Library’s Salon@615 series on May 25, 2016, at 6:15 p.m.
All the Things We Hide
Lee Clay Johnson’s desolate debut novel, Nitro Mountain, exerts a powerful magnetic pull
May 17, 2016 Nitro Mountain, the debut novel from Nashville native Lee Clay Johnson, reveals a strikingly evoked world of depravity, degradation, and bad romance in a remote crevice of Appalachia. Johnson will read from the book at Brown’s Diner in Nashville on May 20, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
A Slippery Bar of Soap in a Large Bathtub
Journalist Vince Vawter looks back on writing Paperboy, his first novel for children
May 16, 2016 “After my debut novel, Paperboy, won a 2014 Newbery Honor, a question gnawed at me: what do I know about children’s literature?” Prior to his appearance at the Children’s Festival of Reading, held in Knoxville on May 21, 2016, journalist Vince Vawter reflects on his surprising second career as a middle-grade novelist.
