Fight or Flight is the third poetry collection by Nashville native Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum. He’ll appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 16.
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“The Orb Weaver’s Song”
Book Excerpt: Fight or Flight
2023 Southern Festival of Books
No Gray Area
Mark Greaney’s Gray Man delivers action and drama in Burner
Burner, the 12th volume in Mark Greaney’s popular Gray Man series, is another high-octane dose of excitement and thrills to rival the best James Bond or Jack Reacher yarns. Greaney will celebrate the release of Burner at Charlie Vergos’ Rendezvous in Memphis on February 25.
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Ministering to the Least of These
A family learns about grace from a death row prisoner
He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row, by Suzanne Craig Robertson, chronicles the relationship between her family and death row prisoner Cecil Johnson. Robertson will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 21.
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From the Other Side of the Woods
A young woman learns to fight for her adopted hometown in Moonrise Over New Jessup
In Jamila Minnicks’ debut novel, Moonrise Over New Jessup, Alice Young takes on a new life of love and tangled loyalties in an all-Black Alabama town embroiled in the escalating fight over desegregation.
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Irrepressible Artist
Steve Stern paints a fictional portrait of Chaim Soutine
Steve Stern’s The Village Idiot, a fictionalized account of the life of painter Chaim Soutine, dives into the relationships, politics, and context that shaped his often overlooked masterworks. Stern will appear at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on October 13.
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