In Up Jumped the Devil, Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow upend popular fantasies about Robert Johnson
In an important and revealing new biography, Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, revered blues scholars Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow separate the truths from the myths in popular accounts of the musician’s life.
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In To Live Here, You Have to Fight, Jessica Wilkerson examines the role of women activists in Appalachia
In To Live Here, You Have to Fight, Jessica Wilkerson sets out to show that women were consistently present, active, and influential in social-justice and labor movements in twentieth-century Appalachia, bringing with them the insistence that their roles as caregivers be counted as worthy aspects of citizenship.
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Clay Risen explains how Teddy Roosevelt helped usher America onto the world stage
In The Crowded Hour, Nashville native Clay Risen offers more than just a rousing retelling of the well-known story of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. He also shows how the famous regiment and their more famous leader helped remake not only America but the world. Risen will appear at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on June 8.
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Filmmaker Michael Ford’s love for Mississippi takes a new form
Michael Ford will discuss North Mississippi Homeplace, a photo essay documenting his travels in Mississippi from 1972 to 1975 and from 2013 to 2018, at Novel in Memphis on June 3.
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In Mary Miller’s Biloxi, a border collie leads a man in crisis out of ennui to enlightenment
Tony Horwitz revisits the complex character of life below the Mason-Dixon Line
In Spying on the South, Tony Horwitz adds another formidable and lively chapter to the continuing examination of Southern culture that he began with his acclaimed 1998 bestseller Confederates in the Attic. Horwitz will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 21.
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