Tayari Jones talks with Chapter 16 about her newest novel, An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, who will talk about her novel An American Marriage during the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 12-14, sets her fiction in Atlanta because the urban South is “a microcosm of all the issues facing the country.”
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Patchwork surveys decades of Bobbie Ann Mason’s fiction, nonfiction, and interviews
Patchwork collects important work by Bobbie Ann Mason, whose short stories, novels, and memoir were inspired by the people, land, and language of her native Western Kentucky. Mason will appear at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on September 6, and at the 2018 Southern Festival of Books, which will be held in Nashville October 12-14
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The Center for Southern Literary Arts holds its first festival in June
The inaugural Memphis Literary Arts Festival will begin June 15 with a ticketed benefit, “Dinner at the Hibiscus Salon,” and continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 16 with a series of talks, readings, and performances by writers, musicians, and artists from across the country. An after-party with DJ Siphne Aaye will begin at 7:30 p.m. June 16.
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A policeman, a dancer, and a pianist triangulate in Leesa Cross-Smith’s debut novel
A fallen policeman’s survivors confront their grief and rearrange their lives in Leesa Cross-Smith’s debut novel, Whiskey & Ribbons. The author will speak at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 6.
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John T. Edge talks about The Potlikker Papers, the Nashville Reads title for 2018
John T. Edge parses sixty years of Southern history in The Potlikker Papers, the 2018 selection for Nashville Reads.
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The new Center for Southern Literary Arts brings Tayari Jones to Memphis
On February 27, the Center for Southern Literary Arts in Memphis will bring novelist Tayari Jones to the stage of the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts to talk about her new book, An American Marriage.
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