The stories in Colum McCann’s Thirteen Ways of Looking explore the inescapable nature of risk
October 26, 2015 In Colum McCann’s latest story collection, Thirteen Ways of Looking, characters fall prey to unforeseen or unknowable threats, and their efforts to make the world safe and comprehensible fail. McCann will discuss the book at the University of Tennessee’s Hodges Library in Knoxville on November 2, 2015, at 7 p.m.
The Killer Nashville conference brings a human touch back to the hardboiled business of crime writing
October 23, 2015 Now in its tenth year, the Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference connects writers with agents, editors, and publishers. Killer Nashville will be held at the Nashville Omni Hotel on October 29-November 1, 2015. In addition to the ticketed conference, a free public event, Killer Nashville BookCon, will be held at the Nashville Omni Hotel on October 31 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will include author presentations, book signings, exhibitors, and book vendors.
Adriana Trigiani talks with Chapter 16 about her grandparents, her new novel, and how love and creativity find expression in writers—and in the rest of us
October 23, 2015 Adriana Trigiani will appear at the Nashville Public Library on October 26, 2015, at 6:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
In Linda Lee Peterson’s latest novel, a San Francisco editor returns to her Southern roots to unravel ancient family intrigue and forbidden love
October 22, 2015 In Linda Lee Peterson’s third novel, The Spy on the Tennessee Walker, San Francisco magazine editor Maggie Fiori learns that her great-great-great grandmother was a nurse who treated soldiers on both sides of the Civil War and who engaged in a love affair with a freed slave. Peterson will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on October 27, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
In Raymond Barfield’s new novel, a young woman accepts her simple life and flawed neighbors as they are, and the result is an unusual love story
October 20, 2015 When Yslea, the narrator of Raymond Barfield’s debut novel, The Book of Colors, wanders past three row houses along the railroad tracks in North Memphis and asks for a glass of water, she begins a difficult but ultimately life-affirming series of relationships.
Lin Stepp
Kensington
272 pages
$15.99
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