Carolyn Newton’s second novel, Songs of the Dead Road, follows a Polish pianist whose life is shaped by wartime loss, Soviet labor camps, and the enduring power of music. The novel explores how memory and art bear witness to histories the world would rather forget.
Three Guesses, the debut novella by Memphian Chris McClain Johnson, offers an epistolary tale of surprising friendship between three very different adults. What begins as a search for the meaning of a painting by one of the three transforms into spirited, platonic exchanges that enrich each character’s life with greater meaning, shared intimacy, and self-actualization.
Dead Man Blues, a crime novel by S.D. House (pen name of bestselling author Silas House), combines a mysterious murder with the tale of a man in search of redemption.
Kelsey Norris’ debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, chronicles characters at a turning point. Norris will appear with Tiana Clark and Alina Grabowski at Vanderbilt University on April 3.
In From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley and her daughter Riley Keough offer up a memoir filled with details salacious, sorrowful, and deeply sentimental. The story belongs mostly to Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and she holds nothing back about her wild and singular life.
Iconic folk singer and activist Joan Baez mines her life for catharsis in her first book of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance. Baez will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
