Jeff Crook’s acerbic crime-scene photographer is forced by fate, and restless spirits, to solve another mystery
March 4, 2016 In Jeff Crook’s The Covenant, a recovering heroin addict with a less-than-steady job as a crime-scene photographer can’t afford to turn down work. But when she stumbles across a murder that local police seem disinclined to solve, she starts to wish she’d never left Memphis.
Jeff Zentner’s The Serpent King is a story of both support systems and past poisons
March 2, 2016 “What a special place I have in my heart for [those] who dream of a bigger world than the one they inhabit,” writes Nashville novelist Jeff Zentner in his debut young-adult novel, The Serpent King. Zentner will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 8, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
David Dark erases divisions in Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious
February 29, 2016 We all hold something sacred, even if it’s only the right to hold nothing sacred. In Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious, David Dark sets out to wring some deeper truth from this facile notion and find possibilities for connection hidden within the very beliefs that appear to divide us. Dark will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 4, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
Crooked Letter i is a collection of coming-out stories from Southerners
February 26, 2016 In Crooked Letter i, a collection of coming-out stories from Southern writers, the truth is best delivered straight but discovered through multiple angles. Contributor B. Andrew Plant will discuss his essay at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on March 3, 2016, at 6 p.m.
Tim Dorsey takes wacky crime on the road in Coconut Cowboy, his latest Serge A. Storms novel
February 25, 2016 Tim Dorsey’s Coconut Cowboy is the nineteenth installment in a gonzo series that seems as indestructible as its history-loving and occasionally psychotic protagonist, Serge A. Storms. Dorsey will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 27, 2016, at 2 p.m.
Bob Mehr chronicles the ups and downs of the Replacements, the most gloriously dysfunctional rock band of the 1980s
February 24, 2016 Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Memphis writer Bob Mehr is a tale of heartbreak, triumph, and rock’n’roll rebellion. Mehr will appear in conversation with Robert Gordon at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on March 1, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
