Today and tomorrow, I’ll share with you the wonderful responses to my Bacon Solicitation for top reads of 2015. You might find some holiday gift ideas here – or your next great read. I’m so grateful to the wide variety…
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Jennifer Frist and Kate Ezell bring high octane glamour and intellect to this year’s Literary Award Gala on November 14th supporting the Nashville Public Library Foundation and honoring local luminary Jon Meacham. You know what I’m talking about! Each of these ladies…
Sometimes a book finds its way to you – or you to it – and unexpectedly your heart is so wrenched and stretched that you aren’t even exactly the same person at the end. (Yes, shades of The Grinch. The good doctor was…
Bacon Readers: I have an intellectual exercise for you today if you’re game. Make a list of what you want. Read that again: What You Want. Make it the most selfish list you can imagine, independent of any wish to…
Matt sends this post from Chapel Hill, NC, to Bacon readers and music lovers in Nashville (and beyond): Art is honesty; else you have entertainment, or distraction. Entertainment and distraction are welcome, even necessary at times, but there is something so different…
The Authors in the Round dinner tonight at War Memorial Auditorium promises not only an intimate evening of delightful conversation with friends but also a chance to meet the author you’re crushing on. It’s a seriously good evening. This…
Hometown heroes make Nashville proud at the Southern Festival this weekend! Don’t miss the chance to support them at their panel discussions or under the tents with the booksellers. Thank you, hometown heroes, for giving us books that sing. Read…
Harrison Scott Key describes his memoir The World’s Largest Man as “a true story about what it’s like to be related to insane people from Mississippi.” “As a boy, the author was partial to sock puppets, calligraphy, and poems tapped…
“When it comes to menopause/depression tips, why do typical lists of ‘solutions’ always look like activities one would do at a Finnish Christian work-study camp for moderately slow children? Why is it always: Sing! Clean out your closets! Organize your…