Jon Meacham highlights Abraham Lincoln’s moral code in a new, essential biography
Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham continues his exploration of moral leadership and America’s search for a more perfect union in And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Meacham will discuss the book at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on October 23.
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Suzanne Stryk’s The Middle of Somewhere travels outward and inward
Suzanne Stryk’s The Middle of Somewhere leads us through mosquito clouds and dusty barns, inviting us to witness flow and change, the endangered and the enduring, the gone and the going away.
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Evil haunts every corner of Erica Waters’ The Restless Dark
In Erica Waters’ The Restless Dark, three young women navigate an insidious landscape, the true-crime podcast-loving people around them, and their own darkest impulses. Erica Waters will appear at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 14-16.
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Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet takes on entwined familial and artistic legacies
When Ada Calhoun undertakes the task of completing a literary biography of Frank O’Hara — a project that had stumped her art critic father decades earlier — she engages complex dynamics of familial angst and artistic ambition, which she details in Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me. Calhoun will appear at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on Oct. 14-16.
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Novelist Megan Giddings explores the intersection of gender and power
Megan Giddings’ second novel, The Women Could Fly, employs dystopia and fantasy to examine the most pressing issues that curb women’s autonomy. Giddings will appear at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 14-16.
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A booklover’s guide to the Southern Festival of Books
The festival is about love. Love for the beautiful words that move and delight us, love for the authors who put those words on paper and screen, and love for the culture and community of the book.
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