Get Used to Me
In Ali: A Life, Jonathan Eig offers an engaging portrait of one of America’s most compelling athletes and personalities. Eig will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
Nonfiction
From a Brutal Land
In Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands, Roger D. Hodge looks at the history of his home, and his family. Hodge will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 13-15.
Thunder on the Right
The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore, an account of Jared Yates Sexton’s year on the 2016 campaign trail, describes Donald Trump’s rise to power and Hillary Clinton’s unexpected crash. Sexton will appear at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 13-15.
Coal Miners’ Hero
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives explores the work of the first females of country music. Holly Gleason, the book’s editor, will appear at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 13-15.
Who’s Responsible for Changing Racist Minds?
Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America is an achievement, astonishing for its ingenious structure, breadth of research, wealth of anecdote, and engaging conversational voice. Kendi will appear at the Nashville Public Library on September 15 at 6:15 p.m.
Building a Dog
In 1952, a Soviet geneticist named Dmitri Belyaev set out to create tame foxes, with dramatic success. In How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog), Belyaev’s colleague Lyudmila Trut and biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin give a detailed history of the now-famous Siberian fox study and explore its importance in solving a number of scientific mysteries. Dugatkin will appear at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville October 13-15.
