Ace Atkins’s third Spenser mystery takes Robert B. Parker’s legendary detective into the world of professional football
May 5, 2914 In 2011, the Robert Parker estate tapped Ace Atkins to continue the late writer’s beloved series of thrillers. With Cheap Shot, his third Spenser novel, Atkins proves again that he is indeed up to the challenge. Atkins will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on May 15, 2014, at 7 p.m.
A suspicious death at a military base exposes secrets and threatens careers in N.P. Simpson’s new thriller
May 1, 2014 It was not unusual for Ann Burkhalter to stay at the Bachelor Officers’ Quarters (B.O.Q.) when she returned to Camp Lejeune for a visit. But when Burkhalter is found floating in the New River, Fran Setliff, the only female NCIS officer at Camp Lejeune, must discover whether the drowning is a tragic accident, a suicide, or foul play. N P. Simpson, who spent part of her childhood in Memphis, sets her mystery novel debut, B.O.Q., in the insular world of a military base—and in the process offers a new take on the police procedural.
Anita Norman, winner of the Tennessee Poetry Out Loud competition, takes home the national prize
May 1, 2014 Earlier this week, we told you about Anita Norman, winner of the Tennessee state Poetry Out Loud finals. Now we’re here to report that Norman, a junior at Arlington High School near Memphis, has been awarded first place in the national championship held this week in Washington, D.C.
Jesse Mathison gets his priorities straight with a new book of verse and images
April 30, 2014 Priorities is both a book of poetry accompanied by art and a book of art accompanied by poetry. The text and images contradict, coerce, command, and communicate with each other as the project marks a successful collaboration between Nashville poet Jesse Mathison and a group of visual artists who together form the Creek collective. The group will host an exhibition and book-release party on May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Frothy Monkey in downtown Nashville.
Adam Ross heads to Germany as a Berlin Prize fellow
April 30, 2014 As he ends his year as a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, Nashville novelist Adam Ross has just received another prestigious appointment: he’ll be in the 2014-2015 class of Berlin Prize Fellows.
Singer-songwriter Todd Snider, known for his hilarious concert tales, has finally written a memoir
April 29, 2014 During two decades of touring, record-cutting, and inciting off-the-rails incidents, acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider has become known for spinning wild true-life yarns at his live performances. Many of those stories are gathered into Snider’s funny and frank new memoir, I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like, a sort of freewheeling Künstlerroman of the musical set.
