Astronaut Obsession
In Eliana Ramage’s debut novel, To the Moon and Back, Steph Harper is a queer Cherokee girl whose sole ambition is to become the first Cherokee astronaut.
Book Reviews
Poor, Broken World
James Wade’s Narrow the Road, set in the Shawnee Prairie of East Texas in 1932, follows the odyssey of William Carter, a 15-year-old left in charge of a failing farm and a dying mother. The boy’s quest through a damaged land to retrieve his absent father carries echoes of John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and even Ray Bradbury — yet it is wholly original and breathtaking. And there’s a gorilla. Wade will speak at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 18–19.
Poems for the Timesick
By turns plaintive and exhilarating, Silas House’s All These Ghosts conjures an attentive, nuanced reckoning with what it means to call a place our home ground. House will discuss All These Ghosts at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
A Certain Way of Living
In her debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, Atlanta native Austyn Wohlers tells the story of a young painter, Anna, who leaves everything behind to care for the orchard she inherits when her estranged grandfather passes away.
No Science to Explain It
In The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Susan Gregg Gilmore has crafted a compassionate story about a community of flawed people and the 12-year-old boy who tries his best to deliver them from the weight of the world. Susan Gregg Gilmore will appear at Novel in Memphis on September 2, Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on September 11, and the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
So Old Hollywood
In her new novel Typewriter Beach, New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton skewers the Golden Age of Hollywood while exploring what it means to grieve. Clayton will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
