Scott Blackwood’s See How Small, inspired by real-life murders, depicts one community’s grief over an unsolved crime
February 5, 2015 In See How Small, Scott Blackwood uses the 1991 yogurt-shop murders in Austin as the inspiration for a novel that expresses the ineradicable damage tragedy inflicts on survivors. Blackwood will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 12, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
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The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins’s debut thriller, is an enthralling tour de force
February 4, 2015 Told from the shifting perspectives of three women, The Girl on the Train by British novelist Paula Hawkins is a tautly paced crime story about the disappearance of one of the narrators. The complex personalities in this tour de force prove to be as suspenseful as the novel’s masterful whodunit. Paula Hawkins will appear at the Nashville Public Library on February 8, 2015, at 3 p.m.
In The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah takes readers on a harrowing return to World War II
February 3, 2014 In her new novel, The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah highlights the bravery of ordinary women during World War II in a heartbreaking story that’s impossible to forget. Hannah will discuss The Nightingale on February 9, 2015, at Parnassus Books in Nashville at 6:30 p.m.
Samantha Shannon talks with Chapter 16 about The Mime Order, the new novel in her mind-bendingly good dystopian series
February 2, 2015 In The Bone Season, Samantha Shannon’s runaway bestseller, the young clairvoyant Paige Mahoney has a talent for reading minds that continually lands her in mortal danger. The charismatic protagonist is back in Shannon’s new dystopian thriller, The Mime Order, and Shannon will read from the book at the Nashville Public Library on February 10, 2015, at 6:15 p.m. The event, part of the Salon@615 series, is free and open to the public.
January 30, 2015 Christian Anton Gerard’s first book of poems is Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella. His work has appeared in storySouth, Post Road, Thrush, Orion, B-O-D-Y, and The Rumpus, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and lives in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he’s an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. He will give a free public reading at the University of Tennessee’s Hodges Library in Knoxville on February 2, 2015, at 7 p.m.
January 29, 2015 Heather Dobbins’s work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Review, The Rumpus, The Southern Poetry Anthology (Tennessee), and TriQuarterly Review, among others. She graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College. She will appear at the University of Tennessee’s Hodges Library in Knoxville on February 2, 2015, at 7 p.m. and at East Tennessee State University’s Ball Hall Auditorium in Johnson City on February 3, 2015, at 7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
