Graphic violence pervades every page of Joshua Hood’s new Search and Destroy thriller
June 23, 2016 Independent, often misunderstood, and fiercely loyal Mason Kane returns in Warning Order, Joshua Hood’s second military-spy thriller. Hood will launch the novel at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on June 30, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
A brother’s recklessness decimates his siblings’ inheritance in Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest
June 22, 2016 In Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest, four middle-aged siblings allow the promise of a future windfall to wreak havoc on their lives. Sweeney will discuss her debut novel at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 23, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
How could I possibly host a book-club dinner on chipped china and a second-hand table?
June 21, 2016 With rooms the color of a dead armadillo, peeling wallpaper in the bath, and red-“brick” linoleum in the kitchen, how could I ever host a book club in my recently purchased 1958 ranch? My slapdash housekeeping would earn a wagging finger from Heloise and send Madame Bovary calling for the smelling salts.
June 20, 2016 William Page’s poems have appeared widely in such journals as North American Review, The Sewanee Review, Southern Poetry Review, and The Southern Review. He is the founding editor of The Pinch and a retired professor of creative writing at the University of Memphis. Page will read from his fifth collection, In this Maybe Best of All Possible Worlds, at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on June 23, 2016, at 5:30 p.m.
Novelist Ed Tarkington reflects on the deep ambivalence that lies at the heart of Peter Taylor’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Summons to Memphis
June 17, 2016 In the sixth of a nine-essay series commemorating the centennial year of the Pulitzer Prizes, novelist Ed Tarkington considers the problematic culture depicted in Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
In Julia Franks’s debut novel Over the Plain Houses, a Depression-era farm wife seeks solace in the wilderness
June 16, 2016 In Julia Franks’s Over the Plain Houses, set in western North Carolina farm country in 1939, a married woman begins to fill the witching hours of night by roaming the wild hills surrounding her farm. Her husband, an evangelical preacher, becomes convinced that his once-pious wife has repudiated God. Franks will discuss Over the Plain Houses at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 23, 2016, at 6 p.m.
