Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

People and Place

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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Eyes in the Shadows

Tales of death and loss mark Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s unconventional story collection

Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s debut story collection, Little Ones, encompasses the psyche of social outcasts, night terrors, and the perceptive sufferers and witnesses of grief

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The Way Back: A Geechee Homecoming

Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s Come by Here revives the complex history of coastal Georgia

In their debut memoir-in-essays, Come by Here, Neesha Powell-Ingabire returns home to Georgia’s Geechee coast, unearthing regional histories while igniting a path to personal healing. Powell-Ingabire will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

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Readers Rejoice

The Southern Festival of Books returns

From haunting novels to true tales of kitchen ghosts, explorations of grief to celebrations of song, the Southern Festival of Books brings it all. The festival will take place in Nashville at Bicentennial Mall, the Tennessee State Museum, and the Tennessee State Library & Archives, October 26-27.

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Taking Up Space on the Page

Renée Watson makes room for Black women in a divine exploration of family, friendship, and romance

Renée Watson’s debut adult novel, skin & bones, is an adoring love letter to fat Black women. Watson will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27. 

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Tragicomic Collaboration

Tyler Mahan Coe limns a legendary country music marriage in Cocaine and Rhinestones

In Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Tyler Mahan Coe explains how the two greatest singers in country music history balanced conservatism and innovation in a blatantly commercial genre. Coe will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

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