David Madden’s inventive biography details the writing life of an American noir master
David Madden’s The Voice of James M. Cain tells the story of his mentor’s development as writer, from young journalist to hard-boiled icon who believed in giving readers what they want.
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Book Excerpt: Nine Bar Blues
Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and editor. She edited the Dark Matter speculative fiction anthologies, which won two World Fantasy Awards. Her previous books include Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future is her first fiction collection. She lives in her hometown, Memphis.
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Insatiable lust and blind love torment the protagonist of Corey Mesler’s latest novel
Camel’s Bastard Son, the new novel from Memphis author Corey Mesler, is equal parts bizarre, hilarious, and sexually explicit.
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Ruthie Lindsey journeys through trauma and tragedy to truth and independence
In There I Am: The Journey from Helplessness to Healing, Ruthie Lindsey survives a car wreck, addiction, and the unraveling of the life and faith she was promised only to find that the capacity to heal lies within herself.
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Alia Volz pays tribute to her mother’s enterprising marijuana brownie business in Home Baked
In Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, Alia Volz crafts a loving portrait of Sticky Fingers Brownies, the empire of pot-laced edibles that her mother built amid the tumultuous events that rocked San Francisco during 1970s and 80s.
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Mark Greaney talks with Chapter 16 about his ninth Gray Man novel
In One Minute Out, thriller writer Mark Greaney confronts the real horror of modern-day sex slavery.
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