Memphis Noir, a new story collection, paints a dark, aching portrait of Memphis, a city steeped in music and magic
November 2, 2015 In fifteen tense stories, Memphis Noir plumbs the dark depths of Memphis lives, from the richest and most privileged to the poorest and most desperate. Editors Laureen P. Cantwell and Leonard Gill, along with collection’s authors, will appear on November 3, 2015, at 6 p.m. at Crosstown Arts in Memphis.
The late William Gay’s incomplete ghost story, Little Sister Death, has just been published
October 30, 2014 When Hohenwald writer William Gay died in 2012, he left behind an incomplete draft of a novel called Little Sister Death. The book is a fictional retelling of the Bell Witch legend, which revolves around a haunted farmstead near Adams, Tennessee, northeast of Nashville. Little Sister Death has just been published by Dzanc Books.
John Baeder’s Road Well Taken remembers the great American road trip of one of our most iconic painters
October 29, 2015 Jay Williams explores the life, times, and legacy of artist John Baeder in John Baeder’s Road Well Taken. Baeder will discuss and sign copies at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 4, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
The stories in Colum McCann’s Thirteen Ways of Looking explore the inescapable nature of risk
October 26, 2015 In Colum McCann’s latest story collection, Thirteen Ways of Looking, characters fall prey to unforeseen or unknowable threats, and their efforts to make the world safe and comprehensible fail. McCann will discuss the book at the University of Tennessee’s Hodges Library in Knoxville on November 2, 2015, at 7 p.m.
In Linda Lee Peterson’s latest novel, a San Francisco editor returns to her Southern roots to unravel ancient family intrigue and forbidden love
October 22, 2015 In Linda Lee Peterson’s third novel, The Spy on the Tennessee Walker, San Francisco magazine editor Maggie Fiori learns that her great-great-great grandmother was a nurse who treated soldiers on both sides of the Civil War and who engaged in a love affair with a freed slave. Peterson will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on October 27, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
Barry Moser’s memoir about growing up in Chattanooga tackles hard questions of race and family
October 21, 2015 On the first page of his new memoir about growing up with his brother in postwar Chattanooga, the artist Barry Moser makes it clear that this won’t be the usual story of a Southern boyhood, full of swimming holes and fishing poles: “Without opportunity to be otherwise,” he writes, “Tommy and I were racists.” Moser will discuss We Were Brothers at Parnassus Books in Nashville on October 26, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
