By Nell Dickerson
“Porch Dogs is one of the most endearing books on dogs I have seen in a long while. Nell Dickerson’s photography is beautiful and charming. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end!”
— Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human
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By J.M. Blaine
“If Christianity has become a stale institution, then Jamie Blaine’s Midnight, Jesus & Me might be the perfect antidote. A raw reminder of the Gospel’s power.”
— Philip Gulley, bestselling author, If the Church Were Christian
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Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild practices radical empathy in every form
April 9, 2013 Cheryl Strayed’s ability to tell her story while inviting others to ask questions of their own lives has attracted the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who made Wild the first pick in Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, and Reese Witherspoon, who will produce and star in the film version of the book. With Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things appearing within months of each other last year—and with both shooting straight to The New York Times bestseller list—Strayed’s success seems nothing less than meteoric. She will appear at the Nashville Public Library on April 18 at 6:15 p.m. as part of the Salon@615 series. The event is free and open to the public.
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Acclaimed scholar Randall Fuller discusses the impact of the Civil War on Walt Whitman’s poetic vision
April 4, 2013 In From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, Randall Fuller chronicles the evolution of Walt Whitman’s poetic vision of heroic American identity. The tragedy of the war, Fuller writes, gave Whitman “a gift both precious and dangerous.” On April 11 at 7 p.m., Randall Fuller will discuss Whitman as part of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Series at Rhodes College in Memphis. The event is free and open to the public.
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By James L. Dickerson
By James L. Dickerson
Sartoris Literary Group
286 pages
$20.95
“Memphis Going Down is told in the words of the record producers, performers, and songwriters themselves as they reflect on their lives and music and its impact on popular culture.”
—From the publisher
By Jill Franks
By Jill Franks
McFarland & Company
220 pages
$53.50
“In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists’ socialist values. Fay Weldon’s Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.”
—From the publisher
