Odd Man In
Stranded in the Future, Robyn Hitchcock’s second musical memoir, is a portrait of a pop surrealist in the age of punk.
Book Reviews
‘Vital Voices’
In Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution, author Denise Kiernan explores the roles of everyday women — and men — in the events leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Kiernan will discuss the book at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on August 14.
City of Ghosts
In See You on the Other Side, the concluding novel in a tetralogy depicting a glamorous Manhattan couple, Jay McInerney balances nostalgia for the riotous past with concerns for a doubtful future. McInerney will discuss See You on the Other Side at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 17-18.
A Family’s Survival
Maggie O’Farrell brings her extraordinary skill for rendering family grief to her latest novel, Land, a sprawling story that crosses several landscapes and spans millennia. O’Farrell will discuss Land at Vanderbilt University on July 2.
All-American Surrealism
Jeff Apter’s Roy Orbison: King of Hearts follows the musical evolution of a rockabilly-era original whose version of teenage dreams was shot through with sadness and all-American surrealism.
The Native Tongue of Violence
Kevin Powers, the author of the landmark Iraq War novel The Yellow Birds, returns with Children of the Wild, a deeply felt tale of two men — one wealthy, one penniless, both in love with the same woman — and the endurance of their unlikely friendship as they journey from the valleys of southwest Virginia to the killing fields of France during the first World War and back home to a rapidly changing world.
