Bob Mehr chronicles the ups and downs of the Replacements, the most gloriously dysfunctional rock band of the 1980s
February 24, 2016 Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Memphis writer Bob Mehr is a tale of heartbreak, triumph, and rock’n’roll rebellion. Mehr will appear in conversation with Robert Gordon at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on March 1, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
Bestselling author Debbie Macomber talks with Chapter 16 about A Girl’s Guide to Moving On
February 23, 2016 In A Girl’s Guide to Moving On, bestselling author Debbie Macomber continues to explore the experiences of women whose lives take an unexpected turn. Macomber recently answered questions via email in advance of her appearance at the Nashville Public Library on February 24, 2016, at 6:15 p.m.
Memoirist Daisy Hernandez examines her life between worlds
February 22, 2016 In A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Daisy Hernandez explores the pain and contradictions of growing up in an immigrant family. Hernandez will give a free public reading at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on February 25, 2016, at 7 p.m.
Novelist Adam Ross is the new editor of The Sewanee Review
February 22, 2016 George Core, editor of The Sewanee Review for the past forty-two years, will be stepping down at the end of 2016. The new editor of the oldest continuously published literary magazine in the country, is Nashville novelist Adam Ross.
February 19, 2016 William Wright is the author of nine poetry collections, including Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, 2015), Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011), and Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, 2005). His poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, the Oxford American, The Antioch Review, Shenandoah, and the Southern Poetry Review. He currently serves as Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He will give a free public reading at UT’s John C. Hodges Library on February 22, 2016, at 7 p.m.
In Katy Simpson Smith’s Free Men, three uncommon bandits commit a violent crime in the wilds of eighteenth-century Alabama
February 18, 2016 In Free Men, by Katy Simpson Smith, a runaway slave, a Creek Indian, and a poor white man make their way west toward the Mississippi River as a French tracker attempts to bring them to justice for a brutal crime. Smith will discuss her new novel at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 24, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 25, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
