Howdy!: The Minnie Pearl Story explores the life and career of one of country music’s most fondly remembered performers. Authors Mary Ellen Pethel and Don Cusic will discuss the book at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville on March 7.
In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly returns to the “micro-memoir,” a form that conveys human experience through brief, richly detailed scenes.
In collaboration with Emily Yellin, the Rev. James Lawson penned Nonviolent, a memoir explaining the principles, personalities, and struggles of a movement for social change. Yellin will speak at the Historic Woolworth Theatre in Nashville on February 18, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis on February 20, and Novel in Memphis on March 26.
The work of photographers George Masa and Jim Thompson documented the unique beauty of the Smokies and played a significant role in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Land of Everlasting Hills by Ren and Helen Davis collects more than 200 of Masa and Thompson’s photographs and includes biographies of both men, as well as a history of the park’s creation.
In I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month, Harvard professor Jarvis R. Givens interrogates how historical consciousness should be grounded in everyday life.
In Medgar and Myrlie, the noted television commentator Joy-Ann Reid pens an intimate history of a marriage and a panoramic narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and beyond. Reid will speak at the University Center at the University of Memphis on February 7.
