For Robyn Hitchcock, the psychedelic call of 1967 inspired a lifetime of music
…my world, my old school. At twelve years and ten months I’m already becoming nostalgic. But I can’t go back — time is a one-way ticket. Young Robyn adores Bob…
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
…his wife and children and drawn to the power of words on a page, “the honest labor of writing itself.” He’s also deeply scarred by the poverty of his youth…
Crusading newspaper editor Carl Magee comes alive in compelling biography Citizen Carl
…sometimes with fists, and once with a gun.” Magee’s powerful enemies included a U.S. senator who later served as secretary of the interior, Albert Fall. You may know that name…
Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree teems with heartbreak, humor, and stunning prose
…Blood Meridian. A great book, beautifully written — and savagely so. But you can have it, for this exercise of identifying McCarthy’s masterwork. You can have that and The Border…
Prine on Prine shines with the beloved songwriter’s heart, humor, and humanity
There were many John Prines. We were lucky that way. There was Prine the young folkie and “New Dylan,” but with songs even Bob couldn’t write: “Angel from Montgomery,” “Hello…
