A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game

Simon Spotlight
320 pages
$7.99


“The rules are simple: Draw a target. Track him down and ‘kill’ him with a spork. Take your victim’s target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn’t get to you first. No safe zones. No time-outs. The game ends when only one player remains. James T. Kirk is playing for fun. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy is playing to get closer to a girl. But when a series of terrorist attacks rock the usually placid Starfleet Academy campus, it becomes clear that somebody is playing the game for real.”

From the Publisher

Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game

Voice of an American Playwright: Interviews with Horton Foote

Mercer University Press
360 pages
$22


“This book establishes that Horton Foote’s characters and themes come from Wharton, Texas, a region influenced more by the Deep South than the cowboy tradition of West Texas. But these interviews also establish that such stories are not place-specific. They are universal stories about going away and the eternal search of emotional and spiritual homes. Foote’s stories are revealed as reflecting the dislocation, loneliness, racial tension, and gender and class divisions of the United States.”

From the Publisher

Voice of an American Playwright: Interviews with Horton Foote

A Cup Full of Midnight

Permanent Press
288 pages
$28


“Terrell does not just tell a story, she plays with language to permit the story to take on its own life as you read. And her characters never lose their humanity, even as they struggle with pain that is almost more than an individual can bear.”

Suspense Magazine

A Cup Full of Midnight

The Good Dream

St. Martin’s Press
320 pages
$25.99


“Donna VanLiere has created a heartwarming story of redemption and has shown the world that she’s not just for Christmas anymore.”

— Richard Paul Evans, bestselling author of The Christmas Box, Lost December, and Miles to Go

The Good Dream

This Fragile Life: A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son

Chicago Review Press
256 pages
$24.95


“Vigorously written, brave, and candid . . . a deeply moving, instructive account of embattled lives and loves striving for order in the face of a heartbreaking mental illness.”

— Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison and The Life of Langston Hughes

This Fragile Life: A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son

Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial

Vanderbilt University Press
128 pages
$29.95


Creation Story explores parallels and intersections in the works of Dial and his fellow Alabamians, the remarkable quilters of Gee’s Bend. In the tradition of African American cemetery constructions and yard art, these artists harness the tactile properties and symbolic associations of cast-off materials in creating an art of profound beauty and evocative power. Produced against a backdrop of poverty and racism, these artworks have an appeal that crosses aesthetic, social, and geographical boundaries, earning them wide recognition as being among the most compelling art of our time.”

From the Publisher

Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial

Visit the Briefly Noted archives chronologically below or search for an article

TAKE THE SHORT READER SURVEY! CHAPTER 16 SURVEYOR SURVEYING