Chapter 16 - Part 140

Positively Dolly

Dolly Parton, Songteller places the country icon’s songwriting at the center of her story

By Jacqueline Zeisloft | December 1, 2020

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics follows the country legend’s life and career from her earliest days growing up in Appalachia to her most recent creative ventures. Co-written by Parton and Nashville-based music journalist Robert K. Oermann, Songteller includes full lyrics to 175 of Parton’s songs, as well as unabashed anecdotes from the remarkable woman with the “Smoky Mountain DNA” who penned them.

White Fight

Dispatches from the Race War exhorts white Americans to join the struggle for a fairer society.

By Kim Green | November 30, 2020

Dispatches from the Race War, a new essay collection by antiracist educator Tim Wise, implores white Americans to reckon with the nation’s ongoing racial traumas and commit to the struggle for justice and equity. Wise will appear at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on December 10.

Dark Night Will Not Rob You of Your Way

Poets offer their perspectives on the global pandemic in Together in a Sudden Strangeness

By Emily Choate | November 20, 2020

In Together in a Sudden Strangeness, editor Alice Quinn gathers more than a hundred poets, whose consummate skill and invaluable insight shed light on the unprecedented experiences of the coronavirus pandemic.

Encounter with a Future Killer

I knew nothing about this person I once called a friend

By Alijah Poindexter | November 19, 2020

Perhaps the trauma of that evening a few months later, when Clarksville became a footnote in the grisly story, is when it began to set in. An obsession that would become full-blown OCD started to grow as I struggled to understand what happened.

Desert Saints

Daniel Hornsby’s novel Via Negativa follows a retired priest’s troubled pilgrimage

By Sean Kinch | November 18, 2020

In Via Negativa, the debut novel by Memphis writer Daniel Hornsby, a homeless priest and a wounded coyote travel across America on a quest for reconciliation and revenge.

Memphis Calling

Robert Gordon revisits his rollicking tale of a revolutionary musical city

By David Wesley Williams | November 17, 2020

Robert Gordon’s It Came From Memphis celebrates wild times and transformative music by shining a light on the likes of Furry Lewis, Mud Boy and the Neutrons, Big Star, disc jockey Dewey Phillips, and wrestler Sputnik Monroe.

I Gotta Sing!

By Alice Faye Duncan
WaterBrook
40 pages
$14.99

“A whole barnyard makes noise ‘in the Spirit of joy’ throughout this raucous picture book, a sweetly heartwarming sing-along by Duncan. Kellam conveys comfort and happiness as the loved ones reflect sunny enthusiasm in this gladdening rendition of the Black American religious folk song ‘I’m Goin’a Sing When the Spirit Says Sing.’”

~Publishers Weekly