It was one of those perfect bluebird, big-sky Montana days. There was no wind. The temperature was warming, and the scent of sage was in the air. The river was big. I didn’t even know that streams that big and fast held trout. I was in a state of wonderment, and the river seemed mysterious, but in a good way. I was ready to begin solving the mystery.
David Dark’s Everyday Apocalypse finds revelation — and possibilities for challenging empire — in many layers of human experience and expression. David Dark will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 27 and Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 5.
Denton Loving is the author of Crimes Against Birds (2014) and Tamp (2024), which received the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. Loving will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18–19.
Connie Jordan Green, a member of the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, is the author of novels for young people, poetry chapbooks and collections, and a personal newspaper column that ran for more than 42 years. She will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18–19.
From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land by Serina K. Gilbert and Learotha Williams Jr. chronicles the history of an extraordinary Tennessee community through the stories of its formerly enslaved founders and their descendants. The authors will discuss the book at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville on September 13.
Night Train to Memphis is Richard Tillinghast’s 14th poetry collection. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A native of Memphis, he currently lives in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee.
