Ace Atkins pens his tenth installment in an iconic detective series
“I keep extensive records of my favorite cases,” Spenser tells a waterfront criminal in Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby, the tenth novel Mississippi-based writer Ace Atkins has penned in…
Georgann Eubanks celebrates endangered native plants in Saving the Wild South
“There is a human prejudice in favor of animals,” an Alabama botanist tells author Georgann Eubanks midway through Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink…
Ruta Sepetys’ young adult masterpiece becomes a graphic novel
A decade ago, Nashville writer Ruta Sepetys enjoyed “the kind of kind of year every debut novelist dreams of” with the publication of Between Shades of Gray, a young adult…
A story of women bound by blood and music
The Ballad of Laurel Springs, the third novel from East Tennessee native Janet Beard, opens in 2019, with 10-year-old Grace assigned to write a family story. When a young aunt…
Ace Atkins’ Mississippi sheriff chases a teenage TikTok sensation across the South
…intricate plotlines, but his journalistic grounding raises his crime fiction above competitors. Like Michael Connelly, creator of the popular Bosch book and television series, Atkins spent years working as an…
The team behind John Lewis’ March launches a new series
…come under attack — not only from external forces seeking to undermine the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but also from internal division, as leaders like Stokely Carmichael and Jim Forman…
