Real Powers
In her latest novel, A Spell for Change, Nicole Jarvis writes about three young people in 1920 Appalachia who are blessed — or cursed — with magic. Jarvis will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 22.
Fiction
Surviving Slavery
Inspired by his family’s history, former journalist Charles B. Fancher set his novel Red Clay on a fictional plantation called Road’s End as the Civil War comes to an end but the threat of violence still lurks.
Normal Life Impossible
In her latest story collection, Hellions, Julia Elliott reimagines the grotesque on her own terms.
Learning the Hard Way
The music industry can be a cutthroat business when it comes to recording contracts, shady promoters, and new talent desperate to make it big. It can also be murder. Ezra MacRae learns that the hard way in the new crime thriller from Michael Amos Cody, Streets of Nashville.
A Dazzling Writer of Flawed People
Lorrie Moore’s work has been celebrated since her 1985 debut, the short story collection Self-Help. Her 1994 novel, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, had Nick Hornby naming her “the best American writer of her generation,” and her latest, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moore will be the featured author for this year’s Writers@Work in Chattanooga, April 22-24.
Smile, Everyone!
Ashley N. Roth’s debut novel We Never Took a Bad Picture explores a marriage over the decades, charting the highs and lows of an alcoholic, womanizing husband and a wife desperate for children but plagued by miscarriages.
