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Going Gonzo

Tim Dorsey takes wacky crime on the road in Coconut Cowboy, his latest Serge A. Storms novel

Tim Dorsey’s Coconut Cowboy is the nineteenth installment in a gonzo series that seems as indestructible as its history-loving and occasionally psychotic protagonist, Serge A. Storms. Hitting the road and…

It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

In Mark Greaney’s fifth Court Gentry novel, Back Blast, the Gray Man is back in the USA to get answers

…his physical appearance. In the fifth installment of the Gray Man series, Back Blast, Gentry uses this natural camouflage to his advantage when he goes to Washington, D.C., to find…

Undersea, Undercover, Under Attack

In Mark Greaney’s new Tom Clancy novel, a Putinesque strong man aims to capture former Soviet lands

…signing the latest installment, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, Greaney sat for a studio interview in Memphis with Chapter 16. An excerpt of the interview, along with the full video,…

Back to the Sea

…signing the latest installment, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, Greaney sat for a studio interview in Memphis with Chapter 16. To download the podcast, click here. To read an excerpt…

In The Wake of History

In Golden Age, the culmination of Jane Smiley’s Last Hundred Years Trilogy, America’s past catches up to the present

In the final installment of her Last One Hundred Years trilogy, Jane Smiley advances the story of the Langdon family to the present day and beyond. The previous two volumes…

Making Beautiful Stories

The Southern Festival of Books is a lot like the state fair—but better

…to being an instant insider in Nashville, where the New South begins. If you asked me that question today, I would say the same damn thing. Copyright (c) 2015 by…

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