A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Dangers Unforeseen

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.

A Killer Conference

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.

Holding On to Beauty

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.

Holding On to Beauty

Decoding a Civil-War Mystery

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.

Life in Full Color

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.

Saving Laurel Springs

Saving Laurel Springs

Saving Laurel Springs

Lin Stepp

Kensington
272 pages
$15.99

“I’ve finally come across someone that believes in all the things that I do. . .love, family, faith, intrigue, mystery, loyalty, romance, and a great love for our beloved Smoky Mountains.”

–Dolly Parton

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