A Fool’s Game?
Is a career in music worth the heartache? That’s the question for Maggie Corbin, the protagonist of Susannah Felts’ new novel, The Come Apart. Felts will appear in Nashville at Vinyl Tap on June 17 and Vanderbilt University on July 9.
Book Reviews
Reckless Awe
Jeff Hardin’s latest poetry collection, Coming into an Inheritance, offers a balm for our chaotic times through poems that convey the grace of nature and the power of art.
The Masculinity Gap
In American Men, Jordan Ritter Conn tracks the lives of four representative souls whose torturous journeys reveal the gap between what men are supposed to be and who they really are.
What Lurks in the Woods
Summer’s Never Over by Darby Bozeman offers the kind of scary story campers tell when they gather around the fire. In this tale, the camp itself goes up in flames, taking the life of a dazzling young counselor. Was it an accident or murder? Darby Bozeman will discuss Summer’s Never Over at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 9.
Chance Encounter
Ann Patchett’s subtle, spirited new novel follows one 53-year-old woman as she reckons with her half-forgotten childhood and considers parenthood in a fresh light. Patchett will appear at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville on May 31.
Hearing Voices
Seventeen-year-old Stella Bohdan is a medium in 1912 New York City who finds her connection to the spirit world a dubious distinction: “I am never alone, never, and yet I’m the loneliest person I know, dead or alive,” Stella complains in The Spiritualists, the debut YA novel by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb. The author will appear at Bound Booksellers in Franklin on June 6 and Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville on June 11.
