Tara Stringfellow’s Memphis weaves a family’s complex stories
Tara M. Stringfellow’s debut novel Memphis opens with the North family tree, simply but beautifully designed. We can’t know where this family is going to take us, but we know there will be complexity and depth. A family tree contains multitudes. Stringfellow will celebrate the book’s release at Novel in Memphis on April 5.
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Desperate characters in Nathan Elias’ debut novel plunge into alternate realities
In Nathan Elias’ Coil Quake Rift, the lives of four characters living in Los Angeles, connected by love and betrayal, are thrown into disarray when an earthquake opens a mysterious chasm.
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Many voices harmonize in Paper Concert
Amy Wright’s Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round compiles interviews with a variety of thinkers and artists who explore an array of topics from climate change to ketchup. Wright will deliver the Basler Chair Lecture at ETSU on March 28 and will appear at ETSU’s Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative on April 12. She’ll also read at Knoxville’s Flying Anvil Theatre on April 10.
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Joel Agee’s debut novel delves into a young boy’s mind in a time of crisis
The Stone World, the first novel from memoirist and translator Joel Agee, tracks the burgeoning consciousness of a boy living with his parents in 1940s Mexico. Agee, son of legendary writer James Agee, depicts a world of émigré artists who teach the protagonist about art, politics, and community.
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Autistic actor Mickey Rowe celebrates difference
Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage is Mickey Rowe’s memoir of growing up with autism and his barrier-breaking career. Rowe will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 16.
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Elizabeth Elkins sorts fact from fiction about Nashville’s Timothy Demonbreun
The record is full of gaps when it comes to the life of Timothy Demonbreun, the French Canadian fur trader who has come to be known as Nashville’s first resident. Elizabeth Elkins goes about getting the story straight in We Should Soon Become Respectable, a lively, well-researched history of a mysterious man.
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