Christina Baker Kline binds youth and age in a story of survival
…exploration of the scars that neglected, abused, and abandoned children bear for life. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern,…
Helene Wecker explores Jewish and Arab myth against the backdrop of immigrant life in 1899 New York
In Helen Wecker’s debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni, it is 1899, and two magical creatures appear on the teeming streets of New York’s Lower East Side. The Golem…
Ken Foster’s new book aims to change hearts and minds about the much maligned bully breeds
Ken Foster’s first “pit bull,” Brando, was pulled from a New York City shelter in 2001. The shelter identified him as a pit bull simply because he had a brindle…
Jeff Crook’s debut thriller is a hard-boiled Memphis crime novel—with ghosts
To stop the shakes, Jackie Lyons is popping sinus pills and beer in a down-and-out Memphis bar when she gets a call from her ex-partner. A new corpse has turned…
In his new book, Daniel Woodrell has written a dozen heart-breaking stories of love, death, and revenge
Daniel Woodrell’s The Outlaw Album is a collection of twelve stories of murder, revenge, regret, and a bewildered reaching for some meaning to life. Set in the rough hollows and…
John Corey Whaley’s award-winning debut novel features a rare bird, teenaged angst, religious mania, and lost children
”Being seventeen and bored in a small town, I like to pretend sometimes that I’m a pessimist,” says the narrator of Where Things Come Back. “Pretend” is the operative verb:…
