Join Margaret Renkl at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books. Stay tuned for a complete schedule of the festival.

Parnassus Books and Harpeth Hall are thrilled to present a special evening with Margaret Renkl to celebrate her new book, The Comfort of Crows. She will be joined by her brother, Billy Renkl who created 52 beautiful, four-color artworks for the book, and they will be in conversation with Ann Patchett. This event will take place in the Frances Bond Davis Theater at Harpeth Hall School.

Each ticket is $3.00 and includes one general admission seat. Signed copies of The Comfort of Crows will be available for purchase on-site, and there will be a signing line for personalizations following the…

Author and New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl is joined by Teresa Weaver, former book editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Atlanta Magazine, to discuss Renkl’s new book, The Comfort of Crows, and how gardens can be used to create wildlife habitats to fight back against biodiversity loss and even climate change.

Avid Bookshop and the Athens-Clarke County Library invite the public to an author event and book signing with Margaret Renkl in celebration of her book The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. There will be a signing after the discussion. Margaret will also sign copies of Late Migrations and Graceland, At Last (now out in paperback!).

For accessibility requests, contact events@avidbookshop.com. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the event.

Join Diane Wilson in conversation about her novel The Seed Keeper, a haunting novel spanning several generations. The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.

This event is supported by the Macalester Native and Indigenous (MNI) Initiative.

Refreshments provided.

Join author Priyanka Kumar at the Southwest Word Fiesta.

Stuttering poet and musician JJJJJerome Ellis will perform excerpts from and discuss their new book, Aster of Ceremonies. This will be the first public offering of the Poetry Foundation’s Crip Talks, a series of workshops and artist talks by disabled writers, artists, and activists organized by the Poetry Foundation’s Accessibility Task Force.

This is a hybrid event, which will be offered in-person and via livestream.

Guests are encouraged to register here.

Join author Scott Chaskey in conversation about his book Soil and Spirit.

Join Jennifer duBois in conversation about her novel The Last Language.