Filmmaker Michael Ford’s love for Mississippi takes a new form
Michael Ford will discuss North Mississippi Homeplace, a photo essay documenting his travels in Mississippi from 1972 to 1975 and from 2013 to 2018, at Novel in Memphis on June 3.
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In Mary Miller’s Biloxi, a border collie leads a man in crisis out of ennui to enlightenment
In A Good American Family, David Maraniss explores the Red Scare of the 1950s
In A Good American Family, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss turns his remarkable talents as a journalist and historian toward the history of his father’s trials during the years of the Red Scare. Maraniss will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 22.
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Twins fight for justice in Kaitlyn Sage Patterson’s latest YA fantasy
In The Exalted, the second in her fantasy series, Memphis YA author Kaitlyn Sage Patterson, a Maryville native, continues the story of a rebellious teen and her long-lost twin as they fight against oppression. Patterson will appear at Novel in Memphis on May 21.
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Tony Horwitz revisits the complex character of life below the Mason-Dixon Line
In Spying on the South, Tony Horwitz adds another formidable and lively chapter to the continuing examination of Southern culture that he began with his acclaimed 1998 bestseller Confederates in the Attic. Horwitz will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 21.
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Meredith Russo’s new YA novel asks what you should do when everybody who “knows” you is wrong
In Birthday, Stonewall Award-winning novelist Meredith Russo traces the painful path Morgan must take to live as her true self. In installments spaced a year apart, Morgan travels from confusion to self-loathing—and finally to acceptance.
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