The Southern Festival of Books returns
…Ann Powers’ Traveling, a book on legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell that’s not a conventional biography but rather an unconventional take on a singular artist. Our reviewer called it a “hybrid…
For Robyn Hitchcock, the psychedelic call of 1967 inspired a lifetime of music
…or a slightly older student at a local art school, a few years from his own musical career but already possessing “the aura of a sage.” His name: Brian Eno….
Ace Atkins creates an unforgettable detective and an intimate portrait of Memphis in Don’t Let the Devil Ride
…its details? Ace Atkins: When you live in north Mississippi, Memphis is the unofficial capital and where you spend a ton of time. I’ve been writing about Memphis since my…
Andre Dubus III’s essays are probing and deeply personal in the collection Ghost Dogs
…— frightening accidents that could have been fatal. He tells also of the time when, unable to otherwise expel a bird that’s entered his tiny New York apartment, he shot…
50 Books / HT50, Part 9: 2012-2017
…we didn’t plan it that way — there’s not a traditional novel in the bunch. Learn more about the 50 Books / HT50 project here, and go here to see all the…
Crusading newspaper editor Carl Magee comes alive in compelling biography Citizen Carl
…his quest for “the whole truth about everything as near as I could get the truth.” “Some folks found it all rather annoying,” McElroy writes, with wry understatement. Reporting the…
