The Southern Festival of Books, one of the oldest and largest literary events in the country, expects to welcome more than 25,000 attendees for panel discussions, book signings, and readings. In addition to 100 sessions over two days, the festival features more than 100 vendors, as well as food trucks and three performance stages for music, theater, spoken word, and poetry, as well as programming for children.
Is a career in music worth the heartache? That’s the question for Maggie Corbin, the protagonist of Susannah Felts’ new novel, The Come Apart. Felts will appear in Nashville at Vinyl Tap on June 17 and Vanderbilt University on July 9.
Jeff Hardin’s latest poetry collection, Coming into an Inheritance, offers a balm for our chaotic times through poems that convey the grace of nature and the power of art.
In American Men, Jordan Ritter Conn tracks the lives of four representative souls whose torturous journeys reveal the gap between what men are supposed to be and who they really are.
In Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World, Lucas L. Johnson II sketches the history of Alex Haley’s Roots and its TV adaptation, surveying their impact through commentary from scholars, genealogists, artists, and ordinary people from different walks of life. Johnson will sign and discuss the book at the Z. Alexander Looby Theater in Nashville on June 14.
Seventeen-year-old Stella Bohdan is a medium in 1912 New York City who finds her connection to the spirit world a dubious distinction: “I am never alone, never, and yet I’m the loneliest person I know, dead or alive,” Stella complains in The Spiritualists, the debut YA novel by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb. The author will appear at Bound Booksellers in Franklin on June 6 and Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville on June 11.
