Smoking Guns delivers a dozen tales of murder and more
Smoking Guns, an anthology from the East Tennessee chapter of Sisters in Crime, offers a dozen “tales of crime and mystery” that take readers into the dark corners of humanity.
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Aaron Robertson weaves personal and political history in The Black Utopians
Aaron Robertson’s exacting, poetic The Black Utopians tracks the rise of Black nationalism, skeptical to its core, through a cadre of Detroit activists, knitting their creative and often militant ideas with memoir and his formerly incarcerated father’s letters, centering the question: “What does utopia look like in black?”
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A neighborhood unites to protect a child in James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is a powerful tale of early 20th-century Jewish and African American communities bonding together to protect a disabled orphan. McBride will deliver the Nashville Public Library Foundation Literary Award lecture at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Nashville on November 9.
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A literary star’s death reveals dangerous secrets in J.T. Ellison’s latest thriller
A Very Bad Thing, the latest thriller from Nashvillian J. T. Ellison, takes readers on a wild ride of secrets, lies, and hidden connections. Ellison will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 1.
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Didi Jackson merges the sacred with the natural world in My Infinity
Nashville poet Didi Jackson’s My Infinity explores the relationship between grief and nature through a rich companionship with the work and life of visionary Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint. Jackson will discuss My Infinity at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on November 17.
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Soraya Cates Parr shares nature hidden in plain sight in Nashville Native Orchids
In Nashville Native Orchids, Soraya Cates Parr has written a fascinating first book that is part natural science, part field guide, and part cultural heritage. Native orchids turn out to be a key to unlocking hidden nature throughout the city.
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