Play That Thing
The typewriter is a musical instrument, a work of art — oh, and a simple tool for changing the world.
Readers Rejoice
From haunting novels to true tales of kitchen ghosts, explorations of grief to celebrations of song, the Southern Festival of Books brings it all. The festival will take place in Nashville at Bicentennial Mall, the Tennessee State Museum, and the Tennessee State Library & Archives, October 26-27.
The Year of Living Surreally
Robyn Hitchcock’s memoir 1967 tells the story of a time, a place, a music — and how they fired his imagination. Hitchcock will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on July 18.
Tender and Tragic
Coming to terms with guns or learning to knit a scarf, Andre Dubus III’s contradictions make for compelling reading in Ghost Dogs.
The Good Fight
He was a corruption-battling editor, educator, entrepreneur, attorney, and inventor. Jack McElroy’s Citizen Carl captures the lives and times of Carl Magee.
Desolation Rowboat
Cormac McCarthy made his name and fame in the West, but his most enduring character was Knoxville river rat Cornelius Suttree.
