Tayari Jones talks with Chapter 16 about her newest novel, An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, who will talk about her novel An American Marriage during the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 12-14, sets her fiction in Atlanta because the urban South is “a microcosm of all the issues facing the country.”
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Jane Hirshfield talks with Chapter 16 about poetry’s timelessness, camouflage in nature, and why she doesn’t need to be “pop-culture hip”
Celebrated poet Jane Hirshfield talks with Chapter 16 about her new poetry collection, The Beauty, and her new essay collection, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World.
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Smyrna native Ellen B. Meacham chronicles Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against poverty
In Delta Epiphany, Ellen B. Meacham chronicles Robert F. Kennedy’s 1967 visit to the Mississippi Delta, which spurred his efforts to eradicate hunger in America. Meacham will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 27.
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Mary Gauthier talks with Chapter 16 about becoming your own witness
While touring to support Rifles and Rosary Beads, her new album co-written with American veterans, Nashville songwriter Mary Gauthier signed a book deal with St. Martin’s Press to tell her own story of trauma and recovery.
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Susan Eaddy and Jessica Young compare notes on creating books for very young children
Nashville authors Susan Eaddy and Jessica Young will launch their new children’s books, Poppy’s Best Babies, Play This Book, and Pet This Book, at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 20.
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John T. Edge talks about The Potlikker Papers, the Nashville Reads title for 2018
John T. Edge parses sixty years of Southern history in The Potlikker Papers, the 2018 selection for Nashville Reads.
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