Parnassus emerges as Nashville’s literary center
When the door swings open to Parnassus Books, the scene is one familiar to book lovers. High gloss oak shelves loaded down with books line the walls from floor to ceiling. Crisp hardback books creak when their spines are forced open. Customers mill between the displays as soft, folksy tunes play. In other words, just like any typical bookstore. But Parnassus is no standard bookstore. The Green Hills independent store was born out of a partnership between best-selling author A