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.
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
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
By Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Crown Archetype
416 pages
$28
“Basketball legend Pat Summitt recalls her life in vivid detail, describing its triumphs, both on and off the court…. With her trademark honesty and grace, Summitt reveals her fears, her early anger and astonishment, her diminishing abilities, her decision to retire, and how her faith sustains her.”
—USA Today
By David F. Dufty
Henry Holt and Co.
288 pages
$17.95
“How to Build an Android is an attempt to bring the science fiction legend back to life as a robot.”
—Chapter 16 book review
By Larry E. Matthews & Bob Biddix
The National Speleological Society
240 pages
$40
“Snail Shell Cave is part of a vast, underground drainage system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, that begins near Eagleville then flows northeast for 13 miles to emerge as a huge spring on the bank of the West Fork of the Stones River. …This book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. It begins with the early exploration in the 1950’s by Tom Barr and other local cavers, follows exploration and mapping throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s, and continues up through the current daring and exciting exploration by cave divers.”
– From the publisher
