Surviving Slavery
Inspired by his family’s history, former journalist Charles B. Fancher set his novel Red Clay on a fictional plantation called Road’s End as the Civil War comes to an end but the threat of violence still lurks.
Book Reviews
God Is Change
In her essay collection about faith and science, World Without End, Martha Park identifies the uncanny overlaps between conflicting beliefs and gently prods at the heart of them. Park will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on May 6.
Disaster-Colored Glasses
Making sense of the land mines of life is the theme of Nashville author Mary Laura Philpott’s memoir in essays, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives. Philpott will appear with Margaret Renkl at a fundraiser for The Porch at Juniper Green in Nashville on May 2.
A Necessary Political Act
Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the last decade, in which she blends the personal and the political in her unflinching prose, offering us her unique take on a wide array of topics. Gay will be a keynote speaker at Bookstock, held at the Benjamin L. Hooks Library in Memphis on May 3.
Normal Life Impossible
In her latest story collection, Hellions, Julia Elliott reimagines the grotesque on her own terms.
Learning the Hard Way
The music industry can be a cutthroat business when it comes to recording contracts, shady promoters, and new talent desperate to make it big. It can also be murder. Ezra MacRae learns that the hard way in the new crime thriller from Michael Amos Cody, Streets of Nashville.
