In celebration of the Library's Summer Challenge theme of "Being a Reading Rockstar," this month's Nashville history post takes a look back at the arts' festival that used to entertain the streets of Nashville long before Lightning 100's "Live on the Green" was around...

Is your favorite book on this list? Then it's time to get your vote on!

What better way to kick off our musical Summer Challenge that with Sebastian Bach?

Philip Roth, America’s best-known writer of Jewish angst and second-best-known native son of New Jersey, died Tuesday evening at age 85.

Published just in time for Ramadan, the follow-up to Hena Khan's marvelous book of colors delves into the shapes that make up the Muslim world.

An NPL curated playlist of songs from funk queen Betty Davis.

Punk rock is the voice of the silenced. It rises in troubling times, disquiets in times of peace.  We take a look at some of  Nashville Public Library's most punk rock books by pioneers who were there for its rise, its fall, and its revival. After all, libraries are punk: what's more punk than free access to information?