John Grisham is heading to Memphis
John Grisham will discuss his new novel, The Rooster Bar in an onstage conversation with nonfiction author Hampton Sides at Christian Brothers University in Memphis on October 26 at 7 p.m.
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Anna-Marie McLemore weaves a tale of cursed families and forbidden love
The cursed characters in Anna-Marie McLemore’s magical-realist novel, Wild Beauty, have the power to bring plants into bloom, but the people they love are doomed to vanish. McLemore will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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Rodney Jones’s novel in verse, Village Prodigies, roves the lives of six childhood friends
Rodney Jones’s powerful novel in verse picks through the memories of six young men from a small Southern town. Jones will discuss Village Prodigies at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 13-15.
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Clyde Edgerton talks with Chapter 16 about the Southern literary landscape
Two of Clyde Edgerton’s beloved early novels, Raney and The Floatplane Notebooks, have been reissued by the University of South Carolina Press in its Southern Revivals series. Edgerton will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 13-15.
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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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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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