September 1, 2015 With his new collection of short fiction, Cries for Help, Various, Padgett Powell provides a lively medley of voices that live up to the author’s dicta that fiction should “be alive” and “be surprising.” Powell will read from and discuss his new book at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015.
August 28, 2015 First-time novelist Tom Cooper delivers a profane and rollicking tale of obsession and absurdity in The Marauders. Cooper will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015.
August 21, 2015 Jenny Milchman’s latest psychological thriller, As Night Falls, explores the boundaries of culpability as the victim of childhood trauma tries to save her family from a sadistic figure from her past. Milchman will discuss her novel at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on August 29, 2015, at 2 p.m.
August 17, 2015 In Nancy Reisman’s novel Trompe L’Oeil, the horror that befalls an unexceptional, upper-middle-class clan pervades every family member’s consciousness and ripples down the years, creating pain and existential uncertainty even in those not yet born when it happened. Reisman will give three public readings in Nashville: at Parnassus Books on August 20, at Vanderbilt University on September 10, and at the Southern Festival of Books, held October 9-11, 2015.
August 14, 2015 In Three Rivers, Tiffany Quay Tyson plumbs the tension between consequence and chance in the lives of three central characters as they struggle to survive a terrible flood in the Mississippi Delta. Tyson will discuss her debut novel at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on August 20, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
August 11, 2015 Perhaps the most striking feature of Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia, a new anthology edited by Larry Smith and Knoxville writer Charles Dodd White, is the sheer variety of characters found in it. The people in these stories fight against preconceived types and offer a rich, bold picture of an Appalachia that defies categorization.
