The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” was a predominantly Black unit in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. Tonya Abari tells their heroic but underappreciated story in her latest picture book, The Six Triple Eight.
Be Gay, Do Crime surveys the long history of queer defiance and resilience through a daily catalog of notable events and key figures. Zane McNeill, one of the book’s editors, answered questions from Chapter 16 about the research challenges of the project and how queer history can help the community hold on to joy.
David Dark’s Everyday Apocalypse finds revelation — and possibilities for challenging empire — in many layers of human experience and expression. David Dark will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 27 and Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 5.
In The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War, Tom Zoellner examines a little known but crucial driver of emancipation — the actions of enslaved people who fled their owners and forged their own destinies.
Barry Mazor’s Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story explores Phil and Don’s famously fraught relationship, their struggles with the music business, and the origins of their unique sound. Barry Mazor will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In Destroy This House, Amanda Uhle, executive director of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, takes readers inside her 1980s childhood with a hoarder mom and an entrepreneur-turned-preacher father. Uhle will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
