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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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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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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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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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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Joan Baez’s debut poetry collection excavates her painful past
Iconic folk singer and activist Joan Baez mines her life for catharsis in her first book of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance. Baez will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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