Marshall Chapman and Lee Smith make it to New York for the opening of Good Ol’ Girls, Killer Nashville scores a big-name keynoter in Jeffery Deaver, Rebecca Skloot is on the third leg of her fifty-three-city book tour, Clay Risen is installed at the op-ed page of The New York Times—and on the cover of The Atlantic—and Michael Sims gives Chapter 16 a peek at his new collection of vampire stories (and there’s not a lovelorn teenager in sight).
U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan visits Tennessee, debut poet Beth Bachmann brings home the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Barry Mazor explains to readers of The Wall Street Journal what Music City U.S.A. really means, William Gay goes to the movies—again, Good Ol’ Girls opens Off-Broadway, and both Amy Greene and Rebecca Skloot hit The New York Times bestseller list.
U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan visits Tennessee, debut poet Beth Bachmann brings home the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Barry Mazor explains to readers of The Wall Street Journal what Music City U.S.A. really means, William Gay goes to the movies—again, Good Ol’ Girls opens Off-Broadway, and both Amy Greene and Rebecca Skloot hit The New York Times bestseller list.
This week in books—and in science—unquestionably belongs to Rebecca Skloot, Memphis-based author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Amy Greene has not written a typical debut novel. Instead, she has turned out nothing less than an epic—a story of madness and magic that spans four generations, an emotionally tangled tale that requires six disparate voices to tell and offers no easy resolutions to the conflicts of the heart. To its everlasting credit, Bloodroot is a big, ambitious book that will never be taught in a ninth-grade English class. Amy Greene will read from it at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville on February 8 at 7 p.m., and at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on February 9 at 6 p.m.
Eleanor Ross Taylor becomes a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, Heather Armstrong signs a deal with HGTV, buzz is already building for Adam Ross‘s first novel, which isn’t due in stores till June, Abraham Verghese lands on yet another best-of list, and The Huffington Post likes the look of Michael Sims‘s latest book.
