Women on a Mission
Ellen Morris Prewitt, a writer with ties to Memphis, Mississippi, and New Orleans, delivers a delightfully rambunctious tale with When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. The author will appear at Novel in Memphis on May 2.
Death at the Museum
In Erica Wright’s The Museum of Unusual Occurrence, Alcyone “Aly” Orlean is a 20-something skeptic who runs an oddities museum and looks after her teenage sister. With no parents to help her, Aly’s got a lot on her plate. Then a dead body turns up. Wright will discuss the novel at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 9 and Plenty Bookshop in Cookeville on April 16.
Volcanic, Universal Inspiration
We are on a two-lane road. No one is around us. It’s green. The kind of green that is so pure and deep that it doesn’t seem real. There are hills everywhere, and empty pastures and fields. There are also volcanoes in every direction.
Pain and Pure Beauty
Author Chris Offutt wastes no time in the opening of The Reluctant Sheriff, as two liquor delivery drivers come across a dead body in the parking lot of a local tavern. This body is only the first to fall. Readers who’ve come to know and love Offutt’s Mick Hardin series can safely anticipate that there will be more to follow.
A Venomous Presence
Hollow Bones, a new novel by Erica Wright, explores religious trauma, small-town life, and how fear can manipulate us. Wright will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on August 8, The Arts Building in Chattanooga on August 17, and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
Buzzing with Life
James Seay takes readers to Mississippi, Moscow, and many places in between in his latest book, a reflective and tender essay collection titled Come! Come! Where? Where?
