Book Excerpt: Ugly Love (Notes from the Negro Side of the Moon)
Earl S. Braggs is the Herman H. Battle Professor of African American Studies at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. He is the author of ten collections of poetry. Braggs is the recipient of the Anhinga Prize, the Jack Kerouac Prize, the Gloucester College Prize, and the Cleveland State Prize. He will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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Ann Powers examines popular music’s propensity for sexual healing
In her new book, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, Ann Powers details the history of erotic power in American popular music. Powers will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 17 at 6:30 p.m.
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Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal gives words to a human ancestor who used very few
The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron’s third novel, toggles between the life of a fierce Neanderthal woman struggling alone to survive and give birth, and the life of an equally determined scientist struggling to defend her work as she too anticipates the birth of a child. Cameron will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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In his new middle-grade novel, Alan Gratz illuminates the universal plight of refugees
Alan Gratz has distilled the horrors of Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, and the Syrian refugee crisis into a beautifully written, heart-wrenching balancing act between three pre-teen protagonists separated by decades but united by courage. Gratz will discuss Refugee at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
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Martin Wilson’s We Now Return to Regular Life returns an abducted boy to his family
Martin Wilson’s We Now Return to Regular Life is the powerful story of Sam Walsh, a fourteen-year-old boy who is reunited with his family after three years in captivity. With determination and strength, he surprises them all. Wilson will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on August 10.
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Wylie McLallen recovers the forgotten history of football in Memphis
In Tigers by the River, Wylie McLallen tells the tale of the first Memphis Tigers, a professional football squad of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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