The day Michael Oher signed “I Beat the Odds” a year ago at Davis-Kidd Booksellers, the store sold more than 1,200 copies. Oher’s publisher says 3,500 people attended the event. “That’s still unbelievable,” Oher says of the turnout. Now his ...

Margaret Atwood keeps tweeting while I'm talking, telling her 293,637 followers about her next appearance.

See if this has a familiar ring: As an immense flood rolls down the Mississippi River, national news media accounts make it appear that Memphis is utterly submerged, sending local leaders into a dither to proclaim that the city is ...

On tour with the paperback edition of her second novel, "The Lake of Dreams," Kim Edwards will stop in Memphis Thursday to appear at the second annual "Literacy Is Key" event.

During the last 25 years of his life, the photographer and graphic designer Jack Robinson worked in Memphis stained-glass studios, lived alone, and made no effort to inform the people around him about his glamorous past.

Calling one-time Memphian Richard Halliburton “America’s greatest adventurer” sounds like hyperbole — until you read a few chapters of “The Glorious Adventure,” subtitled “Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus.”

For this, the ninth in her series of Christmas mysteries, the indefatigable Anne Perry tries something different. "A Christmas Homecoming" could have been devised by Agatha Christie, and happens to take place at Christmas, but otherwise has nothing to do ...

Three years after the U.S. Treasury orchestrated a bailout of the big banks, Detroit and Wall Street, a strong populist sentiment is in the air, judging from a selection of new books the publishers are putting on the market.

The 40-year-old University Press of Mississippi is based in Jackson and supported by Mississippi's state universities, but its list of titles often embraces Memphis. Consider "Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis," for instance, or "You Must Be ...

Growing up deep in the mountains of western North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, a young Charles Frazier couldn't wait for the sun to go down. That's when the WLAC signal would suddenly come clear out of the night ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" 150 years ago, and set it in colonial America 350 years ago, but contemporary author Hillary Jordan had an oddly easy time adapting the story for her current work.

In his new book, Tav Falco describes his influential art-trash-punk band, Panther Burns, as recreating the sound of a feline predator in flames -- "an unholy amalgam of animal lust and divine transubstantiation."

LOS ANGELES -- Growing up in New Orleans, writer Michael Lewis learned three lessons that stuck with him for life:

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