May 12, 2014 Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, an essay collection edited by Lee Gutkind and Beth Ann Fennelly, is about blowing it, betraying loved ones, sleeping with the wrong people, breaking the law, and, most importantly, having the nerve to fess up. In the South, this is not as easy as it may seem.
May 8, 2014 Tupelo Honey Cafe made a name for itself in Asheville, North Carolina, by bringing a spirit of adventure to a range of traditional Appalachian recipes. Now that Tupelo Honey has expanded throughout the Mountain South—including several Tennessee locations—head chef Brian Sonoskus has partnered with writer Elizabeth Sims to create a collection of recipes and stories that highlight regional dishes. Sonoskus will sign copies of Tupelo Honey Cafe at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on May 16, 2014, at 5 p.m.
May 5, 2914 In 2011, the Robert Parker estate tapped Ace Atkins to continue the late writer’s beloved series of thrillers. With Cheap Shot, his third Spenser novel, Atkins proves again that he is indeed up to the challenge. Atkins will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on May 15, 2014, at 7 p.m.
May 1, 2014 It was not unusual for Ann Burkhalter to stay at the Bachelor Officers’ Quarters (B.O.Q.) when she returned to Camp Lejeune for a visit. But when Burkhalter is found floating in the New River, Fran Setliff, the only female NCIS officer at Camp Lejeune, must discover whether the drowning is a tragic accident, a suicide, or foul play. N P. Simpson, who spent part of her childhood in Memphis, sets her mystery novel debut, B.O.Q., in the insular world of a military base—and in the process offers a new take on the police procedural.
April 30, 2014 Priorities is both a book of poetry accompanied by art and a book of art accompanied by poetry. The text and images contradict, coerce, command, and communicate with each other as the project marks a successful collaboration between Nashville poet Jesse Mathison and a group of visual artists who together form the Creek collective. The group will host an exhibition and book-release party on May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Frothy Monkey in downtown Nashville.
April 29, 2014 During two decades of touring, record-cutting, and inciting off-the-rails incidents, acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider has become known for spinning wild true-life yarns at his live performances. Many of those stories are gathered into Snider’s funny and frank new memoir, I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like, a sort of freewheeling Künstlerroman of the musical set.
