The Act of Disappearing chronicles the days of Julia White, a bartender and debut author, struggling to make ends meet while unraveling the mystery of a strange photograph with a story more staggering than anything she could have imagined.
Rebecca Redding
Tainted picks up where her first book, Girl, left off in a cosmic blend of magical prose, poetry, and recipes, wrestling cosmic questions as Girl continues her journey.
With themes of self-advocacy and acceptance in the face of medical hardship, her debut YA novel, Stronger at the Seams, is for everyone who has ever felt broken.
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Elizabeth Beck Dancing on the Page Elizabeth Beck is a poet who writes fiction and the founder of two poetry series: Teen Howl and Poetry at the/ˈtā-bəl/ in Lexington, Kentucky. Her fifth collection of poems, […]
Someplace Like Home, a mother and daughter in Appalachia unpack the traumas of the past in a powerful and reflective novel about family, healing, and moving on.
Join Crystal Wilkinson and Ronni Lundy for a discussion of Crystal’s culinary memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks in the beautiful setting of Fasig Tipton on October 31st, noon to 2pm.
Sky Watch is not only the tale of a remarkable horse, but of the American Saddlebred breed and the way these horses carried one rider back to herself.
Singing is Praying Twice focuses on five generations of females and the rites of passage inherent in intergenerational connections and makes palpable the musicality amid loss and regret with much singing, dancing, and rejoicing on the page.
A gastronomic history like no other, Simplicity and Excellence effortlessly paints a portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell Kremer, one of the most influential forces behind the preservation of Kentucky's culture through its cuisine.
Shitbag Soldier examines the military fairytale that fueled Burton’s enlistment in light of the camouflage nightmares of a reality where she must survive by writing her own narrative instead of letting someone else define her truth.
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Tom C. Hunley The Loneliest Whale in the World A professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University since 2003, Tom C. Hunley has published eight full-length poetry collections, eight chapbooks, and two […]
She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance, Waldrop’s second children’s book, explores the life and art of Helen LaFrance, a Kentucky memory painter and outsider artist who captured a lively, vibrant view of rural life in a changing world.