Mega-bestselling novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon hosts an international book-launch event—at a hotel in Franklin
May 24, 2010 The numbers are astonishing: ten times in the past two years, Hohenwald novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon has landed in the number-one slot of The New York Times bestseller…
Ann Patchett picks a winner in NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest
May 21, 2010 From a field of more than 4,000 entrants, Ann Patchett has awarded the first-place prize in National Public Radio’s Three-Minute Fiction contest to Yoav Ben Yosef’s “Not…
Ashley McWaters grew up in Memphis. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, and Northwest Review, among others. Her debut book of poetry, Whitework, twice a…
In Glenn Taylor’s sophomore novel, a rural marble factory is home to an oddball army intent on advancing the cause of civil rights—and exorcizing its own demons.
In Glenn Taylor’s The Marrowbone Marble Company, Loyal Ledford is an ex-Marine who’s seen things that will forever haunt his dreams. After serving in the Asian Theatre during World War…
Jennifer Holm’s new middle-grade reader captures the Key West of an earlier age
From the looks of the dust jacket, you might assume Turtle in Paradise tells a sand ‘n’ surf tale of a lucky young girl luxuriating in a beachside resort, perhaps…
Nathaniel Philbrick reconsiders Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
An upstart nation was celebrating its centennial in July 1876 and in a bully mood when U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant got word of the unthinkable: a crushing defeat in…
