Erica Wright’s latest mystery sets a murder in a special kind of tourist town
In Erica Wright’s The Museum of Unusual Occurrence, Alcyone “Aly” Orlean is a 20-something skeptic who runs an oddities museum and looks after her teenage sister. With no parents to help her, Aly’s got a lot on her plate. Then a dead body turns up. Wright will discuss the novel at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 9 and Plenty Bookshop in Cookeville on April 16.
Sheri Sellmeyer profiles a multicultural city, one immigrant at a time
Poet Christian Collier on craft, engaging an audience, and his debut collection, Greater Ghost
Rickey Fayne’s debut novel speaks to the agonizing conflicts that define the South
Was Flag Pond ready for the concept?
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