Julian Randall’s lyrical memoir uncovers the past to light a brighter future
Comprised of braided essays which use key pop-culture moments to weave together stories of triumph and personal exploration, Julian Randall’s The Dead Don’t Need Reminding unearths grief and deeply rooted family histories.
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Poet Jenny Qi on what shapes her work
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: The child of Chinese immigrants, Jenny Qi entered Vanderbilt at 16, lost her mother while she was still an undergraduate, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in biomedical science while pouring her grief into poetry. Her award-winning debut collection, Focal Point, explores sorrow, death, and what we owe to each other.
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A lyrical, atmospheric new picture book celebrates author and environmentalist Wilma Dykeman
In her new picture book, Of Words and Water, Shannon Hitchcock tells the story of underappreciated Appalachian author and environmentalist Wilma Dykeman.
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Frye Gaillard delivers a sprawling, panoramic history of the 1960s
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Frye Gaillard’s A Hard Rain pulls the reader into the 1960s, not just to witness its momentous events, but to feel its idealism and disenchantment. First published in 2018, A Hard Rain has recently been released in paperback and as an audiobook.
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SunAh M Laybourn on her new book exploring Korean adoptee identity
SunAh M Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants provides both a glimpse into a complicated identity and a survey of the historical context surrounding it.
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Jessica Young’s Two Homes, One Heart takes on kids’ experience of divorce
Jessica Young’s latest picture book, Two Homes, One Heart, explores through a child’s eyes the uncertainty and possibility experienced when a family separates. Young will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 30.
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