Decades after her uncle’s murder, Dorothy Marcic unravels the killer’s trajectory
…feeling, but her narrative is compelling and her interpretation of the facts persuasive. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern,…
In a new essay collection, Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr. consider race relations in the Bluff City
…King once called ‘the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world.’” Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from…
In his latest satiric novel, Gerald Duff skewers the vestiges of antebellum Nashville
…into the future. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt universities. The author of two young-adult novels,…
Jared Yates Sexton rides the election storm surge in The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore
…Hunter S. Thompson,” according to Kirkus Reviews. “Though it lacks the stinging punch of Thompson, the book is a useful snapshot of a tumultuous presidential race.” Lyda Phillips is a…
Rosecrans Baldwin plumbs the depths of feeling in The Last Kid Left
…day with their guts hanging out,” writes Jason Sheehan for NPR. “It is a witch-hunt story for our age of witch-hunts. Guilty-until-proven-innocent-by-someone-else-just-being-MORE-guilty.” Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew…
Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies
…intimate essays capture the essence of the park and awaken the desire to follow Ben Anderson into the primeval forest. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in…
