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Coal Catastrophe

In Valley So Low, Jared Sullivan details the long fight for justice after a TVA environmental disaster

By Michael Ray Taylor |

In his first book, Valley so Low, Jared Sullivan, a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, Time, and The Bitter Southerner, tells the story of a decade-long legal battle for Tennessee workers sickened and killed by the coal sludge from the 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant disaster. Sullivan will appear at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin on October 15; Williamson County Public Library in Franklin on October 16; East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on October 17; ArtsBuild in Chattanooga on October 23; and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

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A Steely Commitment to Change

Historian David Greenberg explores John Lewis’ lifetime of making good trouble

By Hamilton Cain |

John Lewis’ career in public affairs spanned over 60 years, and he came to embody past, present, and future. In John Lewis: A Life, historian David Greenberg explores how the civil rights icon’s moral compass guided him from decade to decade. David Greenberg will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

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In Collapse There Is Light

Three new collections illuminate times of transformation

By Emily Choate |

In their latest collections, poets Erin Hoover, L.S. McKee, and Shuly Xóchitl Cawood locate moments of insight, challenge, and transformative power in even the darkest aspects of contemporary life. Erin Hoover will appear at ArtsBuild in Chattanooga on October 12.

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The Grind City Grip

Reflections on Memphis from a Pismo summer

By Andrew Ross |

How exactly has it come to pass that Memphis, more than any of the places I have lived, speaks to me the loudest? Why exactly has Memphis gotten in my blood?

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Wine, Dine, and Murder

Marlitt Kaplan returns in Lauren Nossett’s The Professor

By Abby N. Lewis |

In The Professor, Lauren Nossett’s sophomore novel, former detective Marlitt Kaplan returns to university politics when her mother asks for her help in a Title IX investigation of a German professor. Lauren Nossett will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

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Duality Is Fine

John Vercher’s latest novel reckons with Black identity in the past and present

By Kashif Andrew Graham |

In John Vercher’s third novel, Devil Is Fine, a biracial father grieves his deceased son and dying career, realizing that he only understands both through a post-mortem examination. Vercher will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.

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