Mary Laura Philpott signs a book deal for her adorable penguins
June 17, 2014 Mary Laura Philpott, editor of Musing, the online literary magazine at Parnassus Books in Nashville, will soon have a book of her own: look for Penguins With People Problems in the summer of 2015.
Now out in paperback, Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project is an exuberant romantic comedy
June 17, 2014 In The Rosie Project by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion, Don Tillman launches a campaign to find a wife. A genetics professor who’s never been in love, Don prepares an exhaustive questionnaire designed to exclude all women who offend his sense of logic. Then he meets the chaotic Rosie Jarman. Simsion will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 22, 2014, at 2 p.m.
Lisa Howorth’s Flying Shoes blends dark humor and grief in a character-driven story about the consequences of murder
June 16, 2014 In Lisa Howorth’s debut novel, Flying Shoes, Mary Byrd Thornton’s eccentric small-town world is disrupted by a call that unearths memories her family would rather forget. Howorth will discuss Flying Shoes at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 19, 2014, at 6:30 p.m., and at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on July 10, 2014.
June 13, 2014 Melissa Cundieff-Pexa received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University in 2012 and lives now in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two small children. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Mid-American, Gargoyle, Fairy Tale Review, and The Collagist, among others. She will begin Ph.D. studies in creative writing in fall 2014.
Library of Congress names Charles Wright the next Poet Laureate of the U.S.
June 13, 2014 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced yesterday that Charles Wright will serve as the Library’s twentieth Poet Laureate of the U.S. Wright will assume his post in the fall of this year, beginning with a reading at the Library on September 25.
Between Wrecks, George Singleton’s new collection, pushes Southern stereotypes into comic territory
June 12, 2014 George Singleton’s new story collection, Between Wrecks, features outcast characters who perpetuate the myth of Southern freakishness while also giving that lore new preoccupations: these uproarious stories are entrenched in the South while preserving an ironic distance from it. Singleton will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 15, 2014, at 2 p.m.
