In Soul City, Thomas Healy tells the epic, tragic, and potent story of founding a new, Black-oriented community in 1970s North Carolina. Healy will discuss Soul City at a virtual event held on Facebook Live, on the page of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, on November 15.
Clay Risen’s American Rye presents a comprehensive guide to a uniquely American spirit. As with his previous books on bourbon and scotch, Risen explains the evolution and making of rye whiskey before offering reviews and tasting notes on 225 contemporary expressions of the spirit.
In Reorganized Religion, journalist Bob Smietana examines the evolution of America’s Christian institutions.
In Walking Gentry Home, poet Alora Young crafts a family history from the stories passed down through generations.
Suzanne Stryk’s The Middle of Somewhere leads us through mosquito clouds and dusty barns, inviting us to witness flow and change, the endangered and the enduring, the gone and the going away.
Megan Giddings’ second novel, The Women Could Fly, employs dystopia and fantasy to examine the most pressing issues that curb women’s autonomy. Giddings will appear at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 14-16.
