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.
Living in the Present with John Prine, Tom Piazza’s poignant book about the late singer-songwriter, is full of colorful anecdotes about the time the two men spent together — a painfully short interlude of friendship that ended abruptly with Prine’s death in the spring of 2020. Tom Piazza will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In his memoir House of Smoke, Southern food writer and cultural commentator John T. Edge turns the spotlight on himself, seeking to understand his personal history and evolution. Edge will appear at The Rosecomb in Chattanooga on September 18, Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 16, the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October on 18-19, Novel in Memphis on October 22, and Parnassus Books in Nashville on October 27.
