An aspiring author heads to Killer Nashville, a conference designed to help unpublished writers land a book contract
Twenty-odd years, three unpublished novel-length manuscripts, one published short-short story, and about a hundred agent and publisher rejections. That’s what I had invested in my career as a mystery-suspense novelist…
The poetry of Robert Hass is surveyed in a new collection
A 2009 profile in The Wall Street Journal called Robert Hass a “poetry rock star”—a label that fits, insofar as rock stars enjoy fame and a certain reverence. Thanks to…
Steve Yarbrough explores the mystery of memory and the complexity of the past
According to Luke May, the narrator of Steve Yarbrough’s superb new novel, Safe from the Neighbors, “you can find some of the worst people in the world in Mississippi, but…
Suspense heavyweight Tess Gerritsen delivers again with a Rizzoli & Isles potboiler impossible to linger over
Stephen King once described New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen as being “even better than Michael Crichton,” high praise coming from the King of Horror. A physician who has…
Journalist Alex Heard investigates the confounding historical case of Willie McGee
Late in the night on November 1, 1945, Willette Hawkins, a housewife in Laurel, Mississippi, woke to find a man crawling across her bedroom floor. Within a second he was…
Check out all the places Tennessee writers have appeared online in the past week
July 19, 2010 Bill Friskics-Warrren, Silas House, Amanda Little, Adam Ross, Rebecca Skloot, and Abraham Verghese are popping up all over the news scene: Music journalist Bill Friskics-Warren, author of…
