Margaret Kingsbury

SKULDUGGERY AFOOT IN THE TN 7th?? Google is sending push notifications saying that Matt Van Epps won the election. Clicking through the push leads to this. Anybody else get one of these??

Thank you, @areaderlymom.bsky.social for a Halloween newsletter chock-full of news.

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Where To Find Food Banks in Nashville, & How To Donate - City Cast Nashville Help your hungry neighbors by donating to these Nashville food banks.

SNAP benefits are about to lapse. Wondering how to help our neighbors, or need food aid? Here are some local food banks that serve the Nashville community. nashville.citycast.fm/nashville-li...

Best Way to Keep Up With Local Politics You’re not supposed to reach for your phone the moment you wake up, but it’s hard to resist opening the City Cast Nashville email first thing in the morning. With

Good morning. We are the Best Podcast in Nashville, according to YOU, the kind people who voted in the @nashvillescene.com Readers Poll!!! The Scene also honored us as "The Best Way To Keep Up With Local Politics." Thanks for listening, reading, and being part of the conversation, everybody! 😻

EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 Calendar Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t...

Check out @everylibrary.bsky.social's week of FREE events for #BannedBooksWeek!

I chat with @katherinelocke.bsky.social and #GigiHoward on Tues. 7 PM Eastern.

Here's to #FReadom #BooksNotBans #kidlit #lgbtqkidlit

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New and Forthcoming Books by Nashville Authors - City Cast Nashville Wondering what to read this fall? Here are the newest book releases by Nashville authors.

Need some book recs for your fall reading? Here are 10 new releases by Nashville authors! nashville.citycast.fm/best/nashvil...

The Nashville Public Library also has a whole lot of streaming content awaiting your eyeballs:

Check Out These Lovely Children's Books by Palestinian Creators With the horrific conflict in Gaza, it's more important than ever for kids to read children's books by Palestinian creators like these.

My latest #KidLit reviews: children’s books by Palestinian creators. bookriot.com/childrens-bo...

Which Will You Choose? 5 Excellent Pick-Your-Path Books for Kids Explore fairytales, jungles, and treacherous mountains with these pick-your-path children's books, where kids can decide the outcome.

For Choose Your Own Adventure fans, here are five other similar children's books, in my latest for Book Riot. bookriot.com/pick-your-pa...

We're Hiring a Digital Content Specialist Good at making internet? Love books? Come work with us as a digital content specialist.

Book Riot is hiring a digital content specialist based in Portland, Oregon. Consider applying and/or passing along to those who might be interested!

bookriot.com/hiring-digit...

Listening to final mix now. Y’all. If you want to know EVERYTHING about the Elon Musk Tesla Tunnel that they’re planning to build in Nashville, you need to listen to tomorrow’s @citycastnash.bsky.social.

(We cannot tell you where it’s gonna start or go or end, though, bc I don’t think THEY know.)

Image of a Canva graphic. It says "Survey! Librarianship & Mental Health" with the link to the survey via Google docs at tinyurl.com/library-mh-25. It has an image of books on shelves. Below the image, it says "Open through August 1. Answers anonymous and encouraged from *all* levels of library workers."

**Libraries & Mental Health Survey**

I'm updating my research and subsequent talks related to mental health in the library. I'd love insight from library workers of all backgrounds + experiences, and I've got a handy survey. Please take & share widely. Thank you!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

5 New LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Novels for Pride Month and Beyond These new LGBTQ+ middle grade novels include gentle fantasies, powerful dystopians, creepy horror, and more.

Looking for some excellent LGBTQ+ middle grade? Here are some of my recs! bookriot.com/new-lgbtq-mi...

Let the record reflect that @citycastnash.bsky.social newsletter editor @areaderlymom.bsky.social did indeed wear cat ears to morning meeting

If you want I can start dressing up as a cat for our morning meeting.

Maybe I should’ve snuck it in there!

I agree to the terms. Thanks for managing!

1. My hand holds the book in front of trees. The white cover shows a brown skinned, black haired child running through an oversized garden, a cicada on a yellow flower.

Congrats to my friend, @laurabontje.bsky.social, on her newest picture book, WHEN THE AIR SANG, a beautiful, intergenerational celebration of cicadas! Perfect for curious kids. #KidLit

What To Do With Your Kids This Summer in Nashville - City Cast Nashville What should you do with your kids this summer? Our Hey Nashville newsletter editor and token parent Margaret Kingsbury i...

My daughter Marian joined me on the @citycastnash.bsky.social podcast recently to chat about things to do this summer! nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...

It's a BIG day at Picture Book Summit as we reveal the theme of this year's online #writingconference for #picturebook creators. Join us on Oct 4, 2025, for:

BIG, BOLD, & BRAVE: SUPERCHARGE YOUR PICTURE BOOKS!

Early Bird registration begins 6/12!
#amwriting #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky

It sucks. Should not be legal.

I should add we’re on Ryan’s insurance.

They would only cover one inhaler brand for Marian, not the ones her doctor recommended. 🙃

Take the Nashville Weekly Trivia Quiz! - City Cast Nashville Nashville third graders must pass the TCAP test to proceed to fourth grade. Could you pass it? Take this quiz to find out!

Could you pass the third grade TCAP test? Here are five questions from it. Let us know your score; very few people have gotten a 5/5! 👀 nashville.citycast.fm/explainers/n...

I love Lei and the Fire Goddess! There’s a second book in that series out now. I have both the latest Misfits novel and Grace Lin on my shelf waiting to be read. I am behind on the Front Desk series! 😅

8 New Middle Grade Books Featuring AANHPI Voices Here are eight great new middle grade novels to read for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Here are my reviews of 8 new AANHPI middle grade books! What would you add to the list? #kidlit bookriot.com/new-middle-g...

A First-Hand Account of the ICE Detainments in South Nashville - City Cast Nashville On Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement partnered with the Tennessee Highway Patrol to make as many as 150 traffi...

Today on City Cast Nashville, Brenda Pérez from The ReMIX TN gives us her first-hand account of Sunday’s ICE/TN Highway Patrol detainment dragnet in South Nashville.

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2025 Tennessee Legislative Wrap-Up: The Bills That Passed - City Cast Nashville The 2025 Tennessee General Assembly has adjourned, and our legislature passed almost 600 bills. Here are more than 30 of them.

Wondering what new laws are heading our way? Here's a summary of some of the most important bills that passed during this legislative session. nashville.citycast.fm/explainers/2...

Your Guide to Nashville's Independent Bookstores - City Cast Nashville Here's Nashville's best independent bookstores, from used extravaganzas to neighborhood hubs and children’s book nooks.

Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day! Here are our favorite local indie bookstores. nashville.citycast.fm/best/indepen...