A historian considers Taylor Branch’s The King Years
Taylor Branch is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of The King Years, a selection of excerpts from his trilogy on the civil-rights movement. Branch will deliver the keynote address of the MLK50 symposium at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn on April 3.
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In Ashley Herring Blake’s Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World, a young girl considers her own identity
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World is Ashley Herring Blake’s new middle-grade novel about one girl’s quest to understand friendship, identity, and Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
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Ann Fisher-Wirth and Maude Schuyler Clay explore a state’s compelling character in Mississippi
In Mississippi, poet Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographer Maude Schuyler Clay create a nuanced portrait that transcends the usual Southern stereotypes. Both authors will appear at Burke’s Books in Memphis on March 29 at 5:30 p.m.
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Critic and author Teju Cole thinks about photography and politics
Teju Cole is the photography critic at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Blind Spot, a collection of photographs accompanied by brief pieces of writing. On March 29, Cole will give the keynote address at the “Seeing Civil Rights” symposium at the Brooks Museum in Memphis.
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A Manhattan professional weathers major life changes in Anna Quindlen’s new novel
In Alternate Side, bestselling novelist Anna Quindlen writes a bittersweet love letter to Manhattan, as well as a meditation on the passage of time. Quindlen will appear at the Nashville Public Library on March 28.
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Marc Perrusquia’s new book considers the double life of Memphis photographer Ernest Withers
In A Spy in Canaan, Commercial Appeal reporter Marc Perrusquia vastly expands his 2010 front-page bombshell that identified famed civil-rights photographer Ernest Withers as a paid informant for the FBI. Perrusquia will discuss his book at Novel in Memphis on March 27, and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 5.
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