A Parable of Young Womanhood
In her debut novel, Girls with Long Shadows, Tennessee Hill follows the identical Binderup triplets — Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C — as adulthood and community attitudes intrude on their deep bond.
2025 Southern Festival of Books
In the Drink
The William Faulkner we meet in Lisa C. Hickman’s Between Grief and Nothing could have been one of his own doom-struck characters.
God Is Change
In her essay collection about faith and science, World Without End, Martha Park identifies the uncanny overlaps between conflicting beliefs and gently prods at the heart of them. Park will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on May 6.
Normal Life Impossible
In her latest story collection, Hellions, Julia Elliott reimagines the grotesque on her own terms.
Learning the Hard Way
The music industry can be a cutthroat business when it comes to recording contracts, shady promoters, and new talent desperate to make it big. It can also be murder. Ezra MacRae learns that the hard way in the new crime thriller from Michael Amos Cody, Streets of Nashville.
Song of My Songs
Daniel Black’s ninth book, Isaac’s Song, is a novel about Black gay becoming in the 1980s. It dunks us into the colorful life and language of Isaac Swinton, carrying us through recollections of his rigid childhood in Missouri and life in Chicago amidst the AIDS crisis.
