In Person: Margaret Renkl and Aimee Nezhukumatathil appearing at Square Books

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 5:30pm
Off Square Books
129 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655
United States

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EVENT BEGINS AT 5:30 PM CT.

Join Margaret Renkl in conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Off Square Books.

Masks Encouraged

If you have questions or concerns about our safety protocols, please email rsvp@squarebooks.com

Margaret will also sign copies of Late Migrations and Graceland, At Last (now out in paperback!).

Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl is the author of Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth, among others. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of World of Wonders, an illustrated essay collection, as well as of four books of poetry, including, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.

Nonfiction

Graceland, At Last

Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
By 
Margaret Renkl
AVAILABLE NOW!

In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Margaret Renkl’s columns offer a dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville.

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Nonfiction

Late Migrations

A Natural History of Love and Loss
By 
Margaret Renkl

From Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.

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Nonfiction

World of Wonders

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By 
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
PRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK NOW FOR MARCH!

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction—a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.

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