NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on juggling motherhood and career
In It. Goes. So. Fast., NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly describes the challenges of being both a mother and a journalist, determined to do right by both roles. Kelly will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 20.
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Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish, writes a heartbreaking (and aptly titled) memoir
Daniel Wallace, best known for magical Southern novels like Big Fish, tackles a difficult truth in his new memoir, This Isn’t Going to End Well. Wallace’s brother-in-law, William Nealy, a popular cartoonist and outdoor writer, committed suicide in 2001, and in seeking to understand that tragedy, Wallace has crafted a sublime mediation on family, art, and friendship. Wallace will appear at the ETSU Spring Literary Festival in Johnson City on April 12-13 and the SouthWord Literary Festival in Chattanooga on April 14-15.
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Ryan McGee’s memoir takes us behind the scenes of Minor League Baseball
In Welcome to the Circus of Baseball, sportswriter Ryan McGee recalls his summer as an intern for the minor league Asheville Tourists.
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In Charles Frazier’s The Trackers, a painter searches for a rich rancher’s runaway wife
Set in the later years of the Depression, Charles Frazier’s The Trackers tells the story of a painter, commissioned to create a mural for a Wyoming post office, who is hired by a wealthy rancher to locate his runaway wife. Charles Frazier will discuss The Trackers with Tony Earley at a ticketed event at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 11.
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Leta McCollough Seletzky’s The Kneeling Man explores the complex story behind an iconic photograph
In The Kneeling Man, Leta McCollough Seletzky tells the story of her father, an undercover policeman who posed as a Black militant during the 1968 sanitation strike in Memphis.
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Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive weaves true crime with memoir
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Focused on the brutal killing of a Mississippi socialite, Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits an event that grabbed national headlines, left lingering questions, and is still met with silence in the Delta town of Leland. Lowry will appear at SouthWord Literary Festival in Chattanooga on April 14-15.
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