May 1, 2015 Connie Jordan Green lives on a farm in East Tennessee with her husband and two cats and two dogs. Her weekly column for the Loudon County News Herald is in its thirty-sixth year. She writes stories for young people, poetry, and novels. Green will read from her new collection, Household Inventory, at 2 p.m. on May 3, 2015, at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville.
In her third novel, Pamela Schoenewaldt imagines the lives of German-Americans during WWI
April 30, 2015 Pamela Schoenewaldt’s newest historical novel, Under the Same Blue Sky, tells a poignant story of the hardships that German Americans faced during World War I. Schoenewaldt will discuss the book at the Laurel Theater in Knoxville on May 7 at 7 p.m., at Barnes & Noble Vanderbilt in Nashville on May 11, and at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 5.
Two, Melissa Ann Pinney’s new collection of photographs, captures pairs of all kinds
April 29, 2015 Two by Melissa Ann Pinney, a photography collection paired with personal essays edited and introduced by Ann Patchett, explores pairings of all sorts: couples, doublings, twins, and reflections. Pinney will discuss her work at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 6, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
In her debut novel, true-crime writer Phyllis Gobbell turns to fictional mysteries in Provence
April 28, 2015 Phyllis Gobbell may be better known as the co-author of two true-crime books featuring murders in Nashville—A Season of Darkness and An Unfinished Canvas—but she is also a widely published writer of short fiction. So it should be no surprise that her first novel, Pursuit in Provence, is a worthy addition to the cozy-mystery field. Gobbell will discuss Pursuit in Provence at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 3 at 2 p.m.
In Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum invokes Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary to create her heroine’s erotic misadventures
April 27, 2015 When Anna—the ex-pat heroine of Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel, Hausfrau—falls into an extramarital tangle with a fellow foreigner, the affair seems contrary to her entire nature as a person and threatens the passive surface of her life. Jill Alexander Essbaum will discuss Hausfrau at The Skillery in Nashville on May 1, 2015, at 7 p.m. The event, sponsored by The Porch Writers’ Collective and Parnassus Books, is free and open to the public.
There are times when the only recourse to automotive despair is Neil Diamond
April 24, 2015 It started off with a low, quiet groan. The kind of noise my roommate, Chet, makes when I mention things like “utility bills” or “soap.” Although something clearly wasn’t right, I just didn’t want to spend the money to get it fixed. It was a subtle noise, and my approach was to drown it out—I turned up the radio.
