In People Only Die of Love in Movies, editor Steve Haruch collects some of the best film writing by the late Jim Ridley
The late Nashville Scene film critic and editor Jim Ridley wrote about movies with dazzling insight, humor, and honesty. In People Only Die of Love in Movies editor Steve Haruch has collected some of the best of Ridley’s work.
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Alan Lightman makes the case for slow living with In Praise of Wasting Time
With In Praise of Wasting Time, Memphis native Alan Lightman delivers an eloquent argument for the necessity of idleness.
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Alan Lightman revisits eternal questions in Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
In a new collection of essays, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, Memphis native and acclaimed novelist Alan Lightman seeks to reconcile the material and the mystical.
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Ann Fisher-Wirth and Maude Schuyler Clay explore a state’s compelling character in Mississippi
In Mississippi, poet Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographer Maude Schuyler Clay create a nuanced portrait that transcends the usual Southern stereotypes. Both authors will appear at Burke’s Books in Memphis on March 29 at 5:30 p.m.
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Joel Harrington considers the medieval life of New Age favorite, Meister Eckhart
In Dangerous Mystic, Vanderbilt historian Joel Harrington explores the life of Meister Eckhart, a medieval theologian whose path to God has been embraced by New Age gurus and contemporary self-help writers. Harrington will discuss Dangerous Mystic at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 20 at 6:30 p.m
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There’s a profound sense of mystery running through the stories in Allen Wier’s Late Night, Early Morning
The twenty-two stories in Allen Wier’s Late Night, Early Morning explore an uncertain territory where love, beauty, grief, and ugliness mingle, and meaning lies just out of reach. Wier will give a free public reading at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on February 19.
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