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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.

Smile, Everyone!

Ashley N. Roth’s debut novel We Never Took a Bad Picture explores a marriage over the decades, charting the highs and lows of an alcoholic, womanizing husband and a wife desperate for children but plagued by miscarriages.

So Many Secrets

Andy Anderegg’s debut novel, Plum, follows a young woman as she comes of age and navigates relationships in the wake of childhood abuse.

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