During the spring migration of 1965, a teenager’s unhappy parents finally find common ground
…me from Mount Prospect to Evanston and dropped me and my battered footlocker off at Northwestern’s Willard Hall. I didn’t think about birds again for years and years. Lyda Phillips…
Novelist Robert Morgan follows two runaway slaves who are Chasing the North Star to freedom
…stark, terrifying story of perilous love and the search for peace is especially illuminating. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from…
V.E. Schwab twists time and space in A Gathering of Shadows
…the pilot. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt universities. The author of two young-adult novels, she…
Memphis Noir, a new story collection, paints a dark, aching portrait of Memphis, a city steeped in music and magic
…represented here is evident on every page of Memphis Noir, a testament to the cultural richness of the Bluff City. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in…
In Honey from the Lion Matthew Neill Null paints a vivid portrait of a dying world
…the way. It also marks the arrival of a novelist with both artistic daring and the ability to tell a great story. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew…
For memoirist Frances Mayes, childhood was a powder keg
…a week. In a way, writing is writing for me. The form finds itself from the material. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has…
