Cold Case
To the family she destroyed, Suzanne was the vixen homewrecker. To Dorothy Marcic, she may have been a serial killer. Marcic will discuss With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 3.
Nonfiction
A Kind of Rage
In Grown-Up Anger, Daniel Wolff looks at the rise and fall of organized labor and folk music’s role in speaking truth to power. Wolff will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 2. Joining him will be musicians Rayna Gellert and Abigail Washburn.
A Revolution Sown in Fields and Stewed in Kitchens
John T. Edge parses sixty years of Southern history in The Potlikker Papers, the 2018 selection for Nashville Reads.
Love and Theft
In Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature, Rhodes College professor Jason Richards brings theoretical sophistication to close readings of some well-known and not so well-known texts in American literature, showing the complexities of cultural imitation before the Civil War.
History Twisting Up Bright and Green
Throughout Specter Mountain, Jesse Graves and William Wright’s collaborative poetry collection, the mountain landscape itself emerges as a powerful, haunting source of revelation. The result is a unique contribution to Appalachian literature.
A Martyr’s Redemption
On April 3, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis to lead a nonviolent march in support of striking sanitation workers. The next day, he was murdered. In Redemption, Joseph Rosenbloom describes those thirty-one hours with rich detail and compelling analysis. Rosenbloom will speak at Novel in Memphis on April 23 and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 26.
