Meredith Bagby spotlights NASA’s first diverse astronaut class, which included Tennessean Rhea Seddon, in The New Guys.
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Trailblazers in Space
Meredith Bagby’s The New Guys remembers NASA’s Astronaut Class 8
Book Reviews
When They Decide It’s Spring
Poet Anna Laura Reeve entwines motherhood with the natural world in her luminous debut collection
In her debut collection, Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility, poet Anna Laura Reeve depicts motherhood with startling honesty and insight, enmeshed with experiences of the natural world and the enduring drive to make art. Reeve will discuss the book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 16.
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Being There
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on juggling motherhood and career
In It. Goes. So. Fast., NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly describes the challenges of being both a mother and a journalist, determined to do right by both roles. Kelly will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 20.
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The Boy Beneath the Hero
Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish, writes a heartbreaking (and aptly titled) memoir
Daniel Wallace, best known for magical Southern novels like Big Fish, tackles a difficult truth in his new memoir, This Isn’t Going to End Well. Wallace’s brother-in-law, William Nealy, a popular cartoonist and outdoor writer, committed suicide in 2001, and in seeking to understand that tragedy, Wallace has crafted a sublime mediation on family, art, and friendship. Wallace will appear at the ETSU Spring Literary Festival in Johnson City on April 12-13 and the SouthWord Literary Festival in Chattanooga on April 14-15.
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The Goodness of the Game
Ryan McGee’s memoir takes us behind the scenes of Minor League Baseball
In Welcome to the Circus of Baseball, sportswriter Ryan McGee recalls his summer as an intern for the minor league Asheville Tourists.
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The Imagined Country
In Charles Frazier’s The Trackers, a painter searches for a rich rancher’s runaway wife
Set in the later years of the Depression, Charles Frazier’s The Trackers tells the story of a painter, commissioned to create a mural for a Wyoming post office, who is hired by a wealthy rancher to locate his runaway wife. Charles Frazier will discuss The Trackers with Tony Earley at a ticketed event at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 11.
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