In Welcome to the Circus of Baseball, sportswriter Ryan McGee recalls his summer as an intern for the minor league Asheville Tourists.
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The Goodness of the Game
Ryan McGee’s memoir takes us behind the scenes of Minor League Baseball
Book Reviews
The Imagined Country
In Charles Frazier’s The Trackers, a painter searches for a rich rancher’s runaway wife
Set in the later years of the Depression, Charles Frazier’s The Trackers tells the story of a painter, commissioned to create a mural for a Wyoming post office, who is hired by a wealthy rancher to locate his runaway wife. Charles Frazier will discuss The Trackers with Tony Earley at a ticketed event at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 11.
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Crime, Culture, and Complicity
Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive weaves true crime with memoir
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Focused on the brutal killing of a Mississippi socialite, Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits an event that grabbed national headlines, left lingering questions, and is still met with silence in the Delta town of Leland. Lowry will appear at SouthWord Literary Festival in Chattanooga on April 14-15.
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Stronger Stuff
Hang the Moon brings feminism to the Prohibition era — and it’s a wild ride
In Jeannette Walls’ new novel Hang the Moon, a Prohibition-era woman steps out of her father’s shadow and creates a brave new world. Walls will discuss her book on April 4 at Parnassus Books in Nashville.
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On Account of Sex
In The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss dissects the battle for women’s right to vote
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Elaine Weiss’s The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote is a riveting history of the battle to secure voting rights for American women.
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A World Beyond
Alan Lightman considers the origins of spirituality in The Transcendent Brain
In his latest book, The Transcendent Brain, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores the biological and evolutionary sources of our most profound mystical experiences.
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