Chris Bohjalian’s literary ghost story transcends genre, just in time for Halloween
October 13, 2011 Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Secrets of Eden and Midwives, discusses the genesis of his latest novel, The Night Strangers, a delightfully creepy New England ghost story. Bohjalian will appear at the 2011 Southern Festival of Books, held October 14-16 in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.
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Erin Morgenstern’s debut novel, The Night Circus, is a spellbinding read
October 11, 2011 Erin Morgenstern, the debut author of one of this fall’s most anticipated novels, is drawing widespread comparisons to both J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. With The Night Circus, the thirty-three-year-old multimedia artist has not only crafted a story of epic proportions but also turned her own life into a fairy tale, replete with what looks to be a very happy ending.
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NYT-bestselling author Marisa de los Santos talks with Chapter 16 about love and friendship in her new novel
October 10, 2011 As she did in her first two novels (Love Walked In and Belong To Me), Marisa de los Santos carefully explores the nuances of every type of love—filial, familial, and romantic—in her new novel, Falling Together. For de los Santos, romantic love may get all the sonnets, but true friendship can be more passionate, more enduring, and more excruciating to lose. She will appear at the 2011 Southern Festival of Books, held October 14-16 in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.
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Chad Harbach’s first novel creates an engrossing world within—and without—the baseball diamond
October 7, 2011 As Bernard Malamud and W.P. Kinsella did before him, in The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach has reinvented baseball within a universe of his own creation, a place that is not quite the world as we know it, but a world as it might exist within the infinite lines stretching outward from home through first and third base. Harbach will appear at the 2011 Southern Festival of Books, held October 14-16 in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.
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Justin Torres talks with Chapter 16 about his critically acclaimed debut novel—and about what it feels like to go home again
October 5, 2011 Other writers can’t quit praising the debut novel by Justin Torres. “We should all be grateful for Justin Torres, a brilliant, ferocious new voice,” Michael Cunningham wrote for the book’s back cover, where he joined Dorothy Allison, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Harding, and Tayari Jones in a veritable orgy of blurbing for We the Animals. Torres will appear at the 2011 Southern Festival of Books, held October 14-16 in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.
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For Taylor Stevens, the inspiration for her debut thriller came from her own unusual past
October 4, 2011 Taylor Stevens grew up on four different continents as part of a religious cult, escaping only in her twenties. Now a novelist living in Texas, she used her unusual experience to create the fierce heroine of The Informationist, who flouts West Africa’s vicious power brokers to rescue a Texas oil heiress. Stevens will discuss The Informationist at the 2011 Southern Festival of Books, held October 14-16 in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.
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