J.T. Ellison pens a deeply personal, compelling thriller with It’s One of Us
Family secrets and murder test a couple’s faith in each other in J.T. Ellison’s most personal, emotion-laden novel to date. The author will discuss It’s One of Us at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 20.
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Memphis takes center stage in Richard Bausch’s Playhouse
In Richard Bausch’s latest novel, Playhouse, a Memphis theater company stages a performance of King Lear to celebrate a high-profile relaunch. As rehearsals begin, celebrities sign on, and the characters struggle to find harmony, let alone pull off the play.
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Western Edge explores country-rock from the Byrds to the Blasters and beyond
Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock is a fitting companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition of the same name, its pages fairly bursting with song.
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Reckoning asks us all to come to terms with women’s experience
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) asks readers to understand what violence does to women and anyone who is marginalized. She’ll appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 6.
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Jack Hurst reveals the secret of Ulysses S. Grant’s success
In America’s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant from Farm Boy to Shiloh, Jack Hurst shows how Grant’s upbringing and life’s struggles perfectly prepared him for achieving greatness as a leader in America’s bloodiest war.
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Two California grad students get quite an education in the 1960s South
Going Up the Country revisits fieldwork expeditions to Mississippi and Louisiana at the height of the blues revival by two young scholars from UCLA.
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