A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Hand Me That Piano

In A Dream About Lightning Bugs, indie rock icon Ben Folds uses his quirky upbringing and iconoclastic career to illustrate music’s power to form, heal, and inspire. Folds will sign A Dream About Lightning Bugs at the Nashville Public Library on August 9.

Every Kind of Power in Play

Karl Marlantes, author of the bestselling novel Matterhorn, returns with Deep River, a sprawling tale about the lives of three Finnish immigrants. Marlantes will discuss Deep River at Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 13.

All Things Foul Would Wear the Brows of Grace

In Religion of Fear, David Cady tells the shocking tale of how easily well-meaning people can be seduced by evil dressed in “the brows of grace.” Cady will discuss the book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on August 4.

Missions Matter

In How Safe Are We?, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano delivers a report card on our shared commitment to protecting the nation. Napolitano will appear in conversation with former Governor Phil Bredesen at the Nashville Public Library on June 24.  

My One and Only Now and Forever

With Biloxi, Mary Miller delivers a whimsical Southern tragicomedy that evokes both Eudora Welty and Joy Williams. Miller will appear at Novel in Memphis on May 29

Red, White, Blue, and Red

In A Good American Family, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss turns his remarkable talents as a journalist and historian toward the history of his father’s trials during the years of the Red Scare. Maraniss will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 22.

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