Bret Anthony Johnston’s We Burn Daylight sets doomed teenage love against religious conflagration
In We Burn Daylight, Bret Anthony Johnston evokes Romeo and Juliet’s teenage lovers amid a religious community’s fiery standoff with authorities that closely parallels the 1993 Waco siege. Bret Anthony Johnston will discuss We Burn Daylight at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
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Book Excerpt: Winter Sharp with Apples
Annette Sisson is the author of Small Fish in High Branches (2022). Her poems have been published in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, Aeolian Harp Anthology, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English at Belmont University in Nashville. Sisson will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Quantum physics meets reality TV to create an entertaining and thought-provoking puzzle
“It was real. A TV show that could literally alter the fabric of reality to change one’s life.” This is the premise of Peng Shepherd’s novel All This and More. Shepherd will discuss All This and More at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Hanif Abdurraqib meditates on the poetics of basketball and the streets of Ohio
Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest book, There’s Always This Year, is part memoir and part essay, but it’s all about basketball in Ohio during the author’s 1990s childhood. Abdurraqib will discuss There’s Always This Year at the Riverview Park Amphitheater in Chattanooga on October 30.
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Jonathan Metzl wants to reframe the gun debate
In What We’ve Become, Vanderbilt professor Jonathan Metzl demonstrates why gun reform has failed and offers new strategies for changing the debate. Metzl will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell’s The Waters is a story of metamorphosis
Told in the cadence of a fairytale, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s novel The Waters follows a family of women and the unique place they inhabit. Campbell will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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