Fierce Protection
A man is murdered in the midst of a contentious divorce, and his estranged wife’s family is thrown into turmoil. Who is responsible? And why? Those are the questions Tova Mirvis asks in her fourth novel, We Would Never.
Book Reviews
The Natural
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Singled Out, Andrew Maraniss charts the phenomenal rise and terrible fall of Glenn Burke, a gifted athlete who struggled to conceal his sexuality at a time when there was no place for a gay man in the game of baseball.
Growing Up Fast
Lola Kirke’s witty, insightful Wild West Village recalls a privileged, dysfunctional childhood and her journey to move past it. Kirke will discuss the book at Urban Cowboy Nashville on January 30.
Just the Facts
Alternative Facts, the debut story collection by Emily Greenberg, is equal parts brilliant and bonkers as it interrogates the slippery thing we call truth. Greenberg will appear at Novel in Memphis on February 6.
An American Original
Jeff Apter’s Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly tells the story of a legitimate rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, as influential as his more celebrated peers at Sun Records like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash.
Hot Collaboration
The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
