Peggy Burch

• New York author conjures Mississippi landscape for novel; next he'll visit Published 05/18/2013 at 9:45 a.m.

  In his debut novel “Southern Cross the Dog,” Bill Cheng writes in rich detail about a young black man’s escape from the 1927 floodwaters in Issaquena County, Mississippi, to a brothel in the town of Bruce east of the Delta, ...

• Former University of Memphis professor wins prestigious Rea Award Published 05/04/2013 at 9:39 a.m.

  This year’s Rea Award for the Short Story and its $30,000 prize go to the widely admired writer Richard Bausch, whose story collection “Something Is Out There” was published in 2010 while he was teaching at University of Memphis.

• Author Eric Jerome Dickey in Memphis to sign 'Decadence' Published 04/29/2013 at 12:57 p.m.

  Though he’s only an occasional visitor now, fiction writer Eric Jerome Dickey still calls Memphis home. By phone from Atlanta this month, Dickey, who moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s and has been staying in Barbados since last year, ...

• David Sedaris comes to Memphis Saturday on tour with new book Published 04/17/2013 at 4:49 p.m.

  It’s hard to ask David Sedaris a question that he hasn’t already answered in the personal essays he’s published over the past 30 years.

• Jill McCorkle comes to Memphis with new novel, "Life After Life" Published 04/16/2013 at 11:19 a.m.

  Though Jill McCorkle’s new novel, “Life After Life,” is set in a retirement center, its vital characters include an adolescent, young adults and the middle aged, in addition to those near life’s end.

• With 'Wonder,' Literacy Mid-South takes on bullies with books Published 03/30/2013 at 3:09 p.m.

  The people at Literacy Mid-South estimate that 5,000 Memphis residents have read “Wonder,” a novel about a 10-year-old with a severe facial deformity who struggles to fit in at middle school.

• Dining Review: Venerable Folk's Folly real deal Published 03/08/2013 at midnight

  When the University of Memphis was courting the commissioner of the Big East Conference a year ago, the school’s president and athletic director, along with the founder of FedEx and the former First Tennessee Bank chairman, had steaks with their ...

• Dining Review: Cove is treasure trove of fine cocktails, small dishes Published 02/21/2013 at 8:59 p.m.

  In 2008 Memphis interior designer Jim Marshall rescued a load of charming nautical relics and installed them at a bar in the center of the developing Broad Avenue Arts District.

• Three authors to speak at Literacy Is Key event Published 01/29/2013 at 2:49 p.m.

  This year’s Literacy Is Key “Book & Author Affair” will bring three novelists with singular personalities — one from Memphis, two from Atlanta — to the podium at the Holiday Inn, University of Memphis on Jan. Thursday.

• Dining Review: Pizza panacea for Downtown Published 01/24/2013 at 9:39 p.m. 1 Comment

  Aldo's Pizza Pies is filling a gaping hole Downtown, and that's not just a reference to the vast floor space the restaurant occupies.

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