In Julia Claiborne Johnson’s comic novel, Be Frank with Me, a reclusive novelist needs help raising her difficult son
April 8, 2016 The premise of Julia Claiborne Johnson’s debut novel, Be Frank With Me, sounds like a winning Hollywood pitch: a reclusive author who’s published nothing since achieving phenomenal success decades earlier is forced to write again when she loses her fortune to a Madoff-style swindler.
Ron Rash’s Poems: New and Selected meditates on the interconnectedness between Appalachian people and their land
April 7, 2016 Ron Rash has built his reputation as a prolific chronicler of Appalachian lives, and his new collection, Poems: New and Selected, adds to this formidable body of work, shining focused light into pockets of mountain shadow. Rash will read from the book at Chattanooga State Community College at several events held April 12-15, 2016, in connection with the Writers@Work series.
Nashville children’s author Josh Bledsoe celebrates fatherhood with his debut picture book
April 6, 2016 Josh Bledsoe brings readers a gender-bending day of adventure between a father and his daughter in Hammer and Nails, his debut picture book illustrated by Jessica Warrick. Bledsoe will appear at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Brentwood on April 9, 2016, at noon.
William Joyce takes young readers on an epic journey to rescue a beloved toy
April 5, 2016 Bestselling author-illustrator William Joyce discusses his epic new children’s novel, Ollie’s Odyssey, a tale of love and remembrance. Joyce will appear at Christ the King School in Nashville on April 12, 2016, at 6 p.m., and at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on April 13, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
During the spring migration of 1965, a teenager’s unhappy parents finally find common ground
April 4, 2016 For most of my life, I had paid almost no attention to my parents’ private lives. They were just there, usually a deterrent to whatever it was I wanted to do. But our three lives intersected the spring I was sixteen, the spring when they started watching birds and I, learner’s permit in hand, started to drive.
Vanderbilt MFA candidate Tiana Clark picks up another major award
April 4, 2016 Vanderbilt University M.F.A. candidate Tiana Clark has added another national honor to her extensive CV: Clark’s chapbook, Equilibrium, is the winner of the 2016 Frost Place competition and will be published by Bull City Press in early 2017.
