Poet Kate Daniels explores addiction as a family illness
In her new collection, In the Months of My Son’s Recovery, Nashville poet Kate Daniels writes about aging, loss, and the circle of pain created by addiction.
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Rick Bragg talks with Chapter 16 about his own family’s foodways
In The Best Cook in the World, Rick Bragg brings together the two greatest aspects of Southern identity: storytelling and food. Bragg will appear at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville on May 21.
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Lambslide, Ann Patchett’s first children’s book, features a flock of lambs and a landslide victory
Acclaimed Nashville novelist Ann Patchett joins Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser at Parnassus Books on May 6 to celebrate Lambslide, the new children’s picture book they created together.
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Kerry Madden-Lunsford returns to the Smoky Mountains in her new picture book
East Tennessee native Kerry Madden-Lunsford visits Parnassus Books on April 14 to share her newest picture book, Ernestine’s Milky Way, with young readers.
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Shauna LaVoy Reynolds talks with Chapter 16 about her debut picture book
Nashville children’s author Shauna LaVoy Reynolds visits Parnassus Books on March 22 to share her debut picture book, Poetree, a gentle ode to spring and friendship.
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Tara Zahra’s The Great Departure gives a sweeping history of European migration to the U.S.
In The Great Departure, Tara Zahra chronicles the complicated meanings of European migration to the United States. The MacArthur Fellow will speak on March 14 at the University of Memphis.
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