Didi Jackson merges the sacred with the natural world in My Infinity
Nashville poet Didi Jackson’s My Infinity explores the relationship between grief and nature through a rich companionship with the work and life of visionary Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint. Jackson will discuss My Infinity at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on November 17.
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Soraya Cates Parr shares nature hidden in plain sight in Nashville Native Orchids
In Nashville Native Orchids, Soraya Cates Parr has written a fascinating first book that is part natural science, part field guide, and part cultural heritage. Native orchids turn out to be a key to unlocking hidden nature throughout the city.
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Steven Hale lays bare the humanity of those condemned on Tennessee’s death row
Between 2018 and 2020, Tennessee state officials killed seven men by electrocution or lethal injection, more than any other state in the country except Texas. In Death Row Welcomes You, journalist Steven Hale tells the stories of the condemned and the people who have come to know and love them. He also exposes the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and the hypocrisy of Tennessee governors. Hale will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Bret Anthony Johnston’s We Burn Daylight sets doomed teenage love against religious conflagration
In We Burn Daylight, Bret Anthony Johnston evokes Romeo and Juliet’s teenage lovers amid a religious community’s fiery standoff with authorities that closely parallels the 1993 Waco siege. Bret Anthony Johnston will discuss We Burn Daylight at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
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Quantum physics meets reality TV to create an entertaining and thought-provoking puzzle
“It was real. A TV show that could literally alter the fabric of reality to change one’s life.” This is the premise of Peng Shepherd’s novel All This and More. Shepherd will discuss All This and More at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Hanif Abdurraqib meditates on the poetics of basketball and the streets of Ohio
Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest book, There’s Always This Year, is part memoir and part essay, but it’s all about basketball in Ohio during the author’s 1990s childhood. Abdurraqib will discuss There’s Always This Year at the Riverview Park Amphitheater in Chattanooga on October 30.
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