A Blue Grass Boy’s memoir of life on the road with the great Bill Monroe
…way. He was a newcomer to an established lineup. He was decades younger than Monroe but also younger than the rest of the Blue Grass Boys. He was also a…
Capturing the Drive-By Truckers on the page
…called Gangstabilly and Pizza Deliverance? But it’s not enough to say the album made the band. It was essential to their survival and to everything that followed. And back in…
Rob Nixon discusses writers, activists, and the challenges of the Global South
…the famous book Silent Spring, as an inspiration. What can Carson’s example teach us? Nixon: Because of her familial responsibilities as a caregiver and breadwinner, Carson never had the chance…
Bradley Sides’ debut collection delivers sincerely strange stories
…two of the collection’s most stylistically distinct stories, he waits as long as possible to reveal exactly how the real communicates with the magical. Throughout “A Complicated Correspondence,” two buddies…
Ed Tarkington talks about the class conflicts at the heart of his second novel, The Fortunate Ones
…tony Belle Meade society. Decades after graduation, Yeatman will pull everyone’s orbit in the political space, whether candidate or backer, community activist or — in Vanessa’s case — veneered wife….
In Alice Randall’s Black Bottom Saints, a dying man eulogizes the “Black Camelot” of mid-20th-century Detroit
…city is also expiring, “dynamited to pieces in the name of urban renewal, singed in the embers of righteous rebellion.” Ziggy’s gilded-era Detroit goes by various aliases: Black Camelot, Motown,…
