Nancy Johnson’s People of Means is a timely meditation on race, family secrets, the weight of legacy, and resilience in the face of social change. Nancy Johnson will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In Bruce Holsinger’s novel Culpability, a family takes a week’s vacation on Chesapeake Bay to recuperate after a tragic car accident. Holsinger will discuss Culpability at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In Destroy This House, Amanda Uhle, executive director of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, takes readers inside her 1980s childhood with a hoarder mom and an entrepreneur-turned-preacher father. Uhle will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In his latest novel, Songs for Other People’s Weddings, David Levithan delivers an often funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining story about what it’s like to be a wedding singer. Levithan will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Living in the Present with John Prine, Tom Piazza’s poignant book about the late singer-songwriter, is full of colorful anecdotes about the time the two men spent together — a painfully short interlude of friendship that ended abruptly with Prine’s death in the spring of 2020. Tom Piazza will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Hannah Pittard’s latest novel, If You Love It, Let It Kill You, depicts a novelist who finds herself the villain of a novel written by her ex-husband. Pittard will discuss If You Love It, Let It Kill You at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
