Humanities Tennessee previews the 2015 Southern Festival of Books
July 13, 2015 Humanities Tennessee today announces a lineup of award-winning, bestselling authors headlining the twenty-seventh annual Southern Festival of Books, which will be held in Nashville, October 9-11. The roster includes renowned authors Rick Bragg, Geraldine Brooks, Pat Conroy, David Maraniss, Paul Theroux, Rebecca Wells, Scott Westerfeld, and many others.
Novelist John Pritchard remembers the great journalist John Seigenthaler
July 10, 2015 John Seigenthaler, who died last year on July 11, was perhaps the most central and admirable personality that defined the Nashville I lived in during the 1970s. He was the apotheosis of integrity and of all that was serious and good. Anybody who knew him, even if they were his political opposites, held him in lofty esteem for the moral, thoughtful, and inspiringly intelligent human being he was.
Feuding turns mystical and musical in Long Black Curl, the third volume in Alex Bledsoe’s Tufa series
July 9, 2015 In Long Black Curl, the latest installment in Alex Bledsoe’s Tufa series, Appalachian blood feuds recur through the generations like repetitions of an Irish reel. When Bo-Kate Wisby, an exiled daughter of Cloud County, returns home, she initiates a brutal power struggle that will test her entire community. Alex Bledsoe will discuss Long Black Curl at Parnassus Books in Nashville on July 18, 2015, at 2 p.m.
Brad Thor conjures a host of perils in his fifteenth Scot Harvath thriller
July 7, 2015 With Code of Conduct, bestselling Nashville novelist Brad Thor turns up the heat on his superspy, Scot Harvath. Plagues and terrorism, secret cabals and patriots, make for a worthy summer thriller. Thor will discuss Code of Conduct at the Nashville Public Library on July 13, 2015, at 6:15 p.m. The event, part of the Salon@615 series, is free and open to the public.
Set in Sewanee, Leah Stewart’s new novel is a study of small-town secrets and hidden judgments
July 6, 2015 In her fifth novel, The New Neighbor, Leah Stewart brings together two isolated women with secrets in their pasts. With elements of a mystery, the novel is also a thoughtful study of the masks we wear and the complex fictions we present to others. Stewart will discuss the book in conversation with Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of The Family Fang, at Parnassus Books in Nashville on July 9, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
Killing Monica by Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell is an autobiographical comic novel
June 25, 2015 Anyone who lived in a cave between 1998 and 2004, when HBO aired Sex and the City—a series based on Candace Bushnell’s novel of the same name—might read Killing Monica with virgin eyes. Everyone else will find the sexcapades in Bushnell’s new book exactly what they bargained for. Bushnell will discuss Killing Monica at the Nashville Public Library on June 30, 2015, at 6:15 p.m.
