In The Last Ballad, Wiley Cash explores the bloody history of Depression-era textile mills
In The Last Ballad, Wiley Cash delivers a searing account of the conflict between labor and ownership in the textile mills of early twentieth-century Appalachia. Cash will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15, and at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 12 at 6 p.m.
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Jonathan Eig delivers a down-to-earth biography of the larger-than-life Muhammad Ali
In Ali: A Life, Jonathan Eig offers an engaging portrait of one of America’s most compelling athletes and personalities. Eig will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach imagines a shadow world—on land and beneath the waves
Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan’s surprising new novel, unfolds in New York during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Egan will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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Book Excerpt: Vantablack
Ciona Rouse lives in Nashville, where she curates many poetry experiences. She will read from her new chapbook, Vantablack (Third Man Books, 2017) at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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Roger D. Hodge guides readers through a history of violence and hope on America’s bloodiest border
In Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands, Roger D. Hodge looks at the history of his home, and his family. Hodge will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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With Frankenstein Dreams, editor Michael Sims presents twenty vintage works of science fiction
In his new anthology, Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Science Fiction, Michael Sims explores early science fiction, a genre born during the rapid scientific and technological advances of the nineteenth century. Sims will discuss the book at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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