InMidnight Without a Moon, Linda Williams Jackson considers the civil-rights movement through the eyes of a feisty teenage girl
Thirteen-year-old Rose Lee Carter knows that the Jim Crow South has to change, but she’s not sure she wants to be the one to do it. Linda Williams Jackson makes a stunning debut with her middle-grade historical novel,Midnight Without a Moon.
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A cold case warms up as Beverly Lowry disentangles a web of accusations and false confessions
Beverly Lowry’sWho Killed These Girls?chronicles the cold case of the Yogurt Shop Murders, from crime to false confessions, that left Austin a changed city. Lowry will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-15.
Jacqueline Woodson’sAnother Brooklynmeditates on the nature of friendship, love, and loss
WithAnother Brooklyn, celebrated children’s author Jacqueline Woodson has written her first novel for adult readers in twenty years—the coming-of-age story of four Brooklyn girls determined not to be defined by their family’s tragedies. Woodson will speak at the Nashville Public Library on September 7, 2016, and at Crosstown Arts in Memphis on September 8. Both events are free and open to the public.
Gail Lumet Buckley’s family history provides a window into the long movement for black liberation
Gail Lumet Buckley, daughter of Lena Horne, tells her family’s story from emancipation through the civil-rights era inThe Black Calhouns. This sharply epic family saga is interwoven with the history of black American intellectuals and their movements for racial justice. Buckley will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 14-16, 2016. All festival events are free and open to the public.
Rhodes College professor David McCarthy writes a history of protest art in America
April 25, 2016InAmerican Artists Against War, Rhodes College professor David McCarthy serves up a history of protest with artists at its center.
From the stage to the page, Nashville’s first Youth Poet Laureate shines
March 28, 2016Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay, Nashville’s first Youth Poet Laureate, has just published her debut collection.this is our warsparkles with imagery and wisdom that will stay with you long after you close the book. Mukhopadhyay will read from it at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 1, 2016, at 6 p.m.
