Don Winslow’s City on Fire sets a mob war in gray 1980s New England
Don Winslow draws on Homer’s Iliad to craft a modern-day crime classic pitting Irish and Italian American mob families against each other in 1980s Rhode Island. Winslow will discuss City on Fire at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 3.
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Steve Yarbrough’s Stay Gone Days follows the lives of two sisters
In his eighth novel, Stay Gone Days, Steve Yarbrough explores how to escape the past — and whether we even can.
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Cathey Daniels explores personal agency in rural Appalachia in her debut novel
In her debut novel, Live Caught, R. Cathey Daniels explores betrayal and illicit activity in the rural North Carolina mountains. Daniels will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 25.
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A Blue Grass Boy’s memoir of life on the road with the great Bill Monroe
Bass player Mark Hembree’s On the Bus with Bill Monroe is a story about life on the road with a legendary musician, a legendarily complex man, and his hard-driving music.
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Book Excerpt: Watermark
Watermark is Jeff Hardin’s seventh collection of poetry. His work has been honored with the Nicholas Roerich Prize, the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and the X.J. Kennedy Prize. Hardin will discuss Watermark at a virtual event hosted on Zoom on April 14 at 6 p.m. CDT.
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Take My Hand considers a terrible injustice fueled by prejudice and good intentions
Inspired by true events in 1970s Alabama, Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s third novel, Take My Hand, gives voice to a Black physician at the end of her career who can’t be at peace until she shares the story of two girls victimized by racism and the arrogance of good intentions. Perkins-Valdez will discuss Take My Hand at Novel in Memphis on May 7.
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