Jeffrey Jackson tells a story of love, art, and resistance during World War II
In Paper Bullets, Jeffrey Jackson reconstructs the fascinating tale of two French women living on the British island of Jersey, resisting the occupation by Nazi Germany. Jackson will launch his book with a Zoom event hosted by Rhodes College on November 10 and will appear at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 12.
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Historian Thomas Schwartz chronicles the political life of Henry Kissinger
In the tumultuous, polarized atmosphere of the 1970s, Henry Kissinger served as the primary architect of American foreign policy. Thomas Schwartz examines his influences, ideas, and calculations in an impressive political biography, Henry Kissinger and American Power.
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White supremacists infiltrate an East Tennessee town in Charles Dodd White’s How Fire Runs
In Knoxville writer Charles Dodd White’s How Fire Runs, white supremacists take up residence on the wooded outskirts of a carefully selected town in East Tennessee. They call their new stronghold “Little Europe.”
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Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works
The name Rick Bragg is a kind of fixture of the South, likely familiar even to those who’ve never read a word of his prose. If that’s the case for you, a new collection of his short works, Where I Come From, is as good a place to start as any.
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A grandmother’s legacy
“I’ve never voted,” she said. The grandmother I adored. The grandmother whose oak-like presence sheltered and grounded my turbulent childhood. During a visit decades ago, we must’ve been talking about an election, the TV news on. I remember feeling stunned, then embarrassed, and even a little ashamed at her complacency.
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Book Excerpt: Merciful Days
Jesse Graves is the author of four poetry collections, including Basin Ghosts and Specter Mountain, a collaboration with William Wright. His work received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He teaches at East Tennessee State University, where he is poet-in-residence and professor of English.
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