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In Alphabet Juice, Roy Blount Jr. Proves Himself a Wordsmith for the Ages
One day when I was four years old and my sister just three, I saw her pick up the biggest book in the house and begin to read aloud.
"Mama, come... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Nashville author Ronald Kidd's young adult novel, On Beale Street, revisits the despair and hope of 1950s Memphis
Nashville author Ronald Kidd clearly believes that rock music helped end segregation. While he may not be alone in that belief, he stands out in... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
In The House at Sugar Beach, Journalist Helene Cooper Makes the Most of Memoir
For more than a decade, book editors have been in love with the memoir. The genre seems to offer a more intimate perspective on our times, not to... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
With Serena, Ron Rash Crafts a Harrowing Tale of Depression-Era Appalachia
George Pemberton arrives at the train station in Waynesville, N.C., with his new bride Serena. Through the window he sees Rachel Harmon, the teen... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Lorraine Lopez Hits Book-Club Gold With The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters
The four Gabaldón sisters are not the luckiest girls in the world. Their mother is dead, and Fermina, their Pueblo caretaker, is also... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Alice Schroeder Turns Up No Dirt in The Snowball, a New Biography of Warren Buffett
"There is always something," Gov. Willie Stark famously asserts in Robert Penn Warren's 1948 novel All the King's Men. Everyone has a past.... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Tell Me a Story Local readings this week range from the sublime to the heartrending to the purely fluffy
GORDON PEERMAN The Colbert Report recently featured a preacher exhorting his Christian God to use the presidential election to prove His... More>>
Published: November 06, 2008
Turning a Jail Cell into a Meditation Room Becca Stevens takes the Benedictine Rule to prison
Find Your Way Home: Words From the Street, Wisdom From the Heart, a modest new book published by Abingdon Press, was written, according to the... More>>
Published: October 30, 2008
Out of the Pulp Pile Crime writer Dennis Lehane graduates from genre fiction
No one ever tapped Dennis Lehane for the throne of Great American Writer. He wrote serial detective stories and solid commercial fiction ranging... More>>
Published: October 30, 2008
Shut Up and Drive Operating a moving vehicle is a lot more complicated than it seems
For most people, driving a car is as automatic as brushing our teeth. But like much of the taken-for-granted world, commanding an automobile... More>>
Published: October 30, 2008
Counter-Revolution How evangelicals took the fun out of sex
One of the core beliefs of the Religious Right is that fundamentalists represent a great silent majority, particularly when it comes to sexual... More>>
Published: October 23, 2008
Tracing Music City's Family Tree New book chronicles a musical tradition that long predates the Opry
In Nashville Music Before Country (Arcadia, 128 pp., $19.99), Tim Sharp, dean of fine arts at Rhodes College and author of Memphis Music Before... More>>
Published: October 23, 2008
Death on Deadline A prizewinning journalist sets his new thriller in the newsroom
The assistant managing editor of The New York Globe is found murdered on the copy room floor, with an editor's "kill" spike stuck in his heart.... More>>
Published: October 23, 2008
God of the Slide Guitar A biography of Duane Allman stirs rock memories
Every suburban neighborhood has one: a garage band of teenagers who practice on the weekend at decibel levels sure to get the cops called. In my... More>>
Published: October 16, 2008
Far Beyond Navel-Gazing Leif Enger's novel about a failed novelist redeems the genre
Writing by nature is a self-indulgent proposition. It comes with the inherent premise that someone actually cares what you have to say. With his... More>>
Published: October 16, 2008
Not Rich, and barely famous A fiddling poet reports from the road
It's the daydream of just about everybody who dabbles in the arts: Chuck the job, abandon security and devote yourself to the muse. For writers... More>>
Published: October 16, 2008
Facing the Black-Winged Angel Diann Blakely's gorgeous new poetry collection confronts the cost of love and the nature of loss
William Carlos Williams famously wrote, "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack of what is... More>>
Published: October 02, 2008
Trying Tyrants Two law professors describe 'the mother of all trials,' from conception to, um, execution
How do you try a deposed dictator for crimes against his own people in a country that has no legal system? This was the question Michael A.... More>>
Published: October 02, 2008
The Mark of Cain
Powerful new novel reimagines the biblical story of fratricide
Of all the Bible's perplexities, the story of Cain and Abel is surely one of the most arresting. Why did God refuse Cain's sacrifice? Why did... More>>
Published: October 02, 2008
Cuban Mix
New book connects Castro's Revolution with the Mob's domination of Cuba
True crime writer T.J. English depicts 1950s Havana as a Disney World of vice. American gangsters have set up a licentious paradise on the tiny... More>>
Published: October 02, 2008
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma—and Living in the White House Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld imagines the interior life of Laura Bush
"You can't legislate human nature," says the spry, independent-minded grandmother in Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel, American Wife. The occasion... More>>
Published: September 25, 2008
Romance, Country-Style Local fiction team produces a weeper
In her testimonial blurb, music star Amy Grant notes that The Road to Eden's Ridge provides "the biggest unexpected cry in years." Indeed, the... More>>
Published: September 25, 2008
Infinite Sadness Remembering David Foster Wallace
On Sept. 12, America lost one of its major literary figures with the death of novelist, short-story writer and essayist David Foster Wallace.... More>>
Published: September 25, 2008
From Green Acres to Big Ag A local historian describes the rise of industrial agriculture
It may be popular to denounce factory farming or watch PETA torture porn on YouTube, but very few people actually bother to learn much about the... More>>
Published: September 18, 2008
Southerners Anonymous
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George Singleton's comic tale of a recovering alcoholic makes Southern art respectable again. Sort of.
Cultural historians like Harvard emeritus David Herbert Donald have long fixed the beginning of the Southern literary renaissance at 1929, the... More>>
Published: September 18, 2008
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