Candacy Taylor explores the history and legacy of Victor Hugo Green’s iconic travel guide
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Overground Railroad, Candacy Taylor offers a cultural history of the iconic Green Book travel guide for Black Americans.
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Michael Bertrand examines how rock ‘n’ roll united and divided Southerners across the color line
Tennessee State University historian Michael Bertrand reflects on the complicated history of race, rock ‘n’ roll, and the South. Southern History Remixed compels readers to contemplate the meaning of our everyday actions, behaviors, and consumer choices — including the music we listen to.
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Crystal Wilkinson on her new culinary memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a food memoir by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson, offers a banquet of voices, memories, imagination, and archival photographs. Wilkinson will appear at The Bookshop in Nashville on February 2 and Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on February 3.
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Ganesh Sitaraman explains how to fix flying
Anyone who relies on the airline industry to get where they need to go can tell stories about delays, cancellations, shrinking storage space, and general dissatisfaction with the entire process. Vanderbilt University professor Ganesh Sitaraman spells out the remedy for this state of affairs in Why Flying Is Miserable and How to Fix It.
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The new novel by John Minichillo defies normalcy
In his new science fiction novel, Message in the Sky, Nashville author John Minichillo offers a satirical gateway to notions that defy simplistic classification.
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Ann Mulhearn explains how Catholic women shaped social justice in Memphis
In Social Justice from Outside the Walls, Ann Youngblood Mulhearn tells the story of six Catholic women — three Black, three white — whose activism changed Memphis in the 1950s and 1960s. An engaging and well-told book, it combines religious, political, and African American history to add a key dimension to a city that stood at the heart of the struggle for social justice.
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