Over four decades, Richard Bausch has come to be regarded as one of literature’s foremost practitioners of the short story. Few have limned the struggles of the human heart in a forlorn world with comparable skill. Bausch’s people are — there’s no better way of saying it — us. His new collection, The Fate of Others, is a luminous addition to his formidable legacy.
In his new novel, Run for the Hills, Sewanee author Kevin Wilson takes readers on an unconventional road trip with four siblings eager to ask some hard questions of their long-lost father. Wilson will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 15 and Novel in Memphis on May 16.
Ocean Vuong’s new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, revolves around the unexpected bond that develops between a vulnerable young man and an elderly woman who offers him a home and a chance to begin again. Vuong will discuss The Emperor of Gladness at the Nashville Public Library in a ticketed event co-hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 18.
In her latest novel, A Spell for Change, Nicole Jarvis writes about three young people in 1920 Appalachia who are blessed — or cursed — with magic. Jarvis will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 22.
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.
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.
