‘How ‘Bout Dem Boats?’
In The Memphis Showboats, Keith Wood explains the glorious and depressing history of a franchise in the short-lived United States Football League. Along the way, he reveals the struggle in Memphis to achieve national respect.
Nonfiction
Odd Man In
Stranded in the Future, Robyn Hitchcock’s second musical memoir, is a portrait of a pop surrealist in the age of punk.
‘Vital Voices’
In Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution, author Denise Kiernan explores the roles of everyday women — and men — in the events leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Kiernan will discuss the book at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on August 14.
All-American Surrealism
Jeff Apter’s Roy Orbison: King of Hearts follows the musical evolution of a rockabilly-era original whose version of teenage dreams was shot through with sadness and all-American surrealism.
Royals
In The Kennedys and the Windsors, Caroline Hallemann details how the lives of the two families have intertwined for the past eight decades. Hallemann will discuss the book at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville on June 24.
The Masculinity Gap
In American Men, Jordan Ritter Conn tracks the lives of four representative souls whose torturous journeys reveal the gap between what men are supposed to be and who they really are.
