Do-It-Yourself Spirit
In Nowville, Joe Nolan tells the story of Nashville’s contemporary art renaissance with a lively oral history featuring artists, gallerists, and curators.
Sinister Stories
Smoking Guns, an anthology from the East Tennessee chapter of Sisters in Crime, offers a dozen “tales of crime and mystery” that take readers into the dark corners of humanity.
Uncertainty and Possibility
Jessica Young’s latest picture book, Two Homes, One Heart, explores through a child’s eyes the uncertainty and possibility experienced when a family separates. Young will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 30.
A Swerve in an Unexpected Direction
Moping around the house, I acted as if I was the first parent to be cut off from reading with their kid. But parenthood delivers sudden reversals to all who dare to raise a child, particularly those who become overly attached to routines, traditions, or phases. You never know when they will end, sending you swerving in a new direction.
A Murder on Campus
R.J. Jacobs’ This Is How We End Things delivers a twisting, turning grad school murder mystery.
A Knock-Down-the-Front-Door Kind of Guy
Captain America’s legacy creates high expectations. Writers who tell the story of the iconic superhero must respect over 80 years of comic book history, and Alan Gratz, known for his award-winning novels for young readers, rises to the challenge with Captain America: The Ghost Army.
