Big Ears Festival, Knoxville’s genre-defying music and arts celebration, gets its own book
To mark its tenth anniversary, Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival now has a book, Big Ears Knoxville, with photographs by Kate Joyce, a preface by Ben Ratliff, and essays by Rachel Grimes and Joe Henry. Based on performances from 2014 to 2018, the book will launch at the 2019 festival, held in Knoxville March 21–24.
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Wolf Pack solidifies C.J. Box’s status as one of the nation’s most skilled thriller writers
C.J. Box’s Wolf Pack weaves together several plot lines populated by new and familiar characters to create a masterful tapestry of suspense. Nineteen novels into the Joe Pickett series, Box has clearly hit his stride. He will appear at Novel in Memphis on March 18.
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Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson tells of a French socialite’s crucial spy network
In Madame Fourcade’s Secret War, Lynne Olson tells the nearly forgotten story of how a privileged young woman built a spy network that helped defeat the Third Reich. Olson will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 14.
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This is My South blogger Caroline Eubanks has written a handbook for hitting the road
Travelers tend to fall into one of two categories: those who don’t mind sweating and those who do. Caroline Eubanks offers advice for both in her new book, This is My South. Eubanks will appear at Novel in Memphis on March 14.
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The World According to Fannie Davis is full of history, luck, and love
In The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her mother, a woman who “made a way out of no way” as a banker in the underground lottery. Davis will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 13.
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In a new anthology, Appalachian writers address J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy
In Appalachian Reckoning editors Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll have assembled a bold collective response to the cultural phenomenon created by J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Several contributors will discuss Appalachian Reckoning at the Knoxville Museum of Art on March 12 and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 25.
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