Reading skills are optional at the Southern Festival of Books
Sometimes kids just can't wait till they get home to hear the story
Margaret Lazarus Dean discusses LEAVING ORBIT, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books.
Reading on the Plaza, couple-style
Susannah Felts and Katie McDougall, founders of The Porch Writers' Collective, at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
The Ukedelics on the music stage at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
Perennial festival favorite Ron Rash, who will be at the 2016 festival with his novel ABOVE THE WATERFALL.
Don't miss all the t-shirts, totes, mugs, and other great festival memorabilia at the main tent on Legislative Plaza
Novelist Lorraine Lopez, author of THE DARLING, at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
There's lots of fun for kids (and volunteers) at the Southern Festival of Books
No better place to be on a sunny weekend in October
Father-and-son nonficton writers extraordinaire David Maraniss and Andrew Maraniss at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
Our friends at the Women's National Book Association recruit a future member
Chapter 16's own Ed Tarkington signs his debut novel, ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART, at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
Food trucks! Need we say more?
Legendary Southern memoirist Rick Bragg at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
Mother-daughter authors Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
Bacon on the Bookshelf founder Jennifer Puryearwith novelist and poet (and Chapter 16 contributor) Erica Wright
Chapter 16 critics Faye Jones and Maria Browning
The late, great, and deeply missed Pat Conroy at his final Southern Festival of Books appearance
Festival book sales are managed by Parnassus Books, the most famous bookstore in America
Books, books, and more books
Children's authors Lynne Berry, Susan Eaddy, and Jessica Young at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books-- and Young will be back this year with a new book!
Mary Laura Philpott, author of PENGUINS WITH PEOPLE PROBLEMS, interviews novelist Lauren Groff at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books for the Nashville Public Television program A WORD ON WORDS
