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Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption–My Life in America's Fastest Sport

Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption–My Life in America's Fastest Sport

Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport

Darrell Waltrip (with Nate Larkin)

Free Press
256 pages
$24.99

“The author—a three-time winner of the NASCAR Series Cup and winner of the 1989 Daytona 500, a race he describes as NASCAR’s ‘Super Bowl’—was in the broadcast booth for the 2001 edition, cheering on his younger brother Michael, the eventual victor. That victory was overshadowed, however, by the death of driver Dale Earnhardt in a final-lap crash, and Waltrip’s chilling description of the race and its aftermath are the entry point into an exploration of the author’s life behind the wheel…”

Kirkus Review

Encyclopedia of Country Music, 2nd Edition

Encyclopedia of Country Music, 2nd Edition

Encyclopedia of Country Music, 2nd Edition

Edited by Michael McCall, John Rumble, and Paul Kingsbury

Oxford University Press, USA
640 pages
$65

“This thoroughly revised new edition includes more than 1,200 A-Z entries covering nine decades of history and artistry, from the Carter Family recordings of the 1920s to the reign of Taylor Swift in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Compiled by a team of experts at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the encyclopedia has been brought completely up-to-date, with new entries on the artists who have profoundly influenced country music in recent years, such as the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban.”

From the Publisher

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Edited by Leah Kaminsky

Vintage
272 pages
$15

“When it was time to hang pictures in our new house in San Antonio, my wife asked me to buy a studfinder. As a husband I demurred; as an internist, I flat-out refused. We internists make it our business to devine the stutters and stumbles of lungs, hearts, brains, adrenals, guts, gonads – hence the term ‘internal medicine.’ Once upon a time, doctors examined patients not with CAT scans of MRIs but with their senses. ‘Surely’ I said, ‘skills that can find pus behind the chest wall can find a stud behind drywall.’”

— excerpt from Abraham Verghese’s “Bedside Manners”

Defining a Life Through Books

August 29, 2012 Perhaps all avid readers mark their lives by the books they’ve read and by the way those books have influenced them. Frye Gaillard certainly does, and as a journalist he also has a strong sense of how books show us pictures of the world at a certain time and place. More than just a memoir, The Books That Mattered is a fascinating blend of personal, cultural, and literary history. Gaillard takes readers to a segregated courtroom in Alabama, a prison in Argentina, the dust bowl of Oklahoma, and a small attic hideout in Europe. As disparate as those books and places are, they all live on in Gaillard, who will appear at the twenty-fourth annual Southern Festival of Books, held October 12-14 at Legislative Plaza in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.

The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South

The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South

The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South

Edited by James R. Veteto and Edward M. Maclin

Vanderbilt University Press
232 pages
$27.95

The Slaw and the Slow-Cooked has far wider relevance than the Mid-South of its subtitle. Its contributors examine many aspects of America’s oldest Slow Food, from its primeval origins into the age of Twitter and Facebook. They treat their savory subject seriously, but not (thank the Lord) solemnly. You don’t have to be a barbecue nut to enjoy this book, but if you are one, you’ll be in hog heaven.”

— John Shelton Reed, co-author, Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death

Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death

Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death

Tav Falco

Creation
312 pages
$24.95

“This book is the bible of dixie-fried rockabilly psychosis and Memphis beat art underground true crime history myth – read it and scream for hell.”

— Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream

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