In her new memoir Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, Lucinda Williams tells the backstory of her songs and her life.
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Not Too Blue
Songwriter Lucinda Williams offers a transparent view of a life spent writing and healing
A Part, a Whole, a Root, a Bloom
Katy Simpson Smith’s The Weeds links the stories of two women botanists
Katy Simpson Smith’s The Weeds links the stories of two unnamed women, working in different centuries, who both find themselves apprenticed to male botanists cataloguing every species of plant growing among the stones of the Roman Colosseum.
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Tales She’ll Tell
The past, present, and future collide in Lee Smith’s Silver Alert
Lee Smith’s ability to spin tragedy into comedy is challenged as never before in her new novel, Silver Alert, as a motley cast of characters navigates a world filled with pain and loss, while at least one stubbornly clings to her hope for a better future.
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Southernified
The pleasures of patience, redbuds, and good neighbors
Sometimes I wonder why anyone would want to live anywhere but the South and whether I’ve discovered some secret to life since moving here.
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Trailblazers in Space
Meredith Bagby’s The New Guys remembers NASA’s Astronaut Class 8
Meredith Bagby spotlights NASA’s first diverse astronaut class, which included Tennessean Rhea Seddon, in The New Guys.
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When They Decide It’s Spring
Poet Anna Laura Reeve entwines motherhood with the natural world in her luminous debut collection
In her debut collection, Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility, poet Anna Laura Reeve depicts motherhood with startling honesty and insight, enmeshed with experiences of the natural world and the enduring drive to make art. Reeve will discuss the book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 16.
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