During the Civil Rights era, white supremacists bombed Nashville three times, attacking a school, a Jewish Community Center and the home of civil rights attorney Z. Alexander Looby. Those bombers were never caught.
Memphis author talks religion, education and the death of Tyre Nichols in new poetry collection
Author Tara Stringfellow is back with “Magic Enuff,” the writer’s first collection of poetry.
Bestselling author V.E. Schwab on world-building, her newest book and finding the magic in Nashville
Bestselling author and Harpeth Hall alumnus V.E. Schwab took the world by storm with her Shades of Magic series. She’s now returning to that world in her new book, “The Fragile Threads of Power” — and she returns to Nashville for an event at Parnassus Books on Oct. 5.
Romance novels are booming — and diversifying — and this Nashville book club is loving it
On a dark and stormy night, about 30 women brave the pouring rain to gather at Parnassus Books in Green Hills. They’re here for the store’s romance book club: Between the Covers.
Nashville Youth Poet Laureate’s debut work traces her maternal line through Tennessee civil rights, reconstruction and slavery
The dawn of civilization can be traced back roughly 400 generations. That means there are roughly 400 mothers between you and the beginning of human history.
Friends remember Franklin historian, preservationist and ‘scribbler’ Robert Hicks
Friends are remembering author and local historian Robert Hicks, who died last month at the age 71.
A Nashville writer’s debut novel explores how Black women with albinism navigate life in the South
Ahead of the release of her debut novel, “Nobody’s Magic,” poet Destiny Birdsong spoke with WPLN News about the “messy” ways society approaches race and beauty. Her story follows three Black women with albinism navigating love and grief in the South.
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