Don’t expect to see Ashley Levi’s cheerful, smiling face in Nashville too much this summer. She and the kids will be in Charlevoix, Michigan! It’s possibly her favorite spot in the world – a “simple little town in northern Michigan with…
My friend Lawrence Blank-Cook liked Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves so much that she couldn’t even bear to start another book once she’d finished it. She found herself in a terrible funk – an avid reader, no book by…
I met Roger Moore this past Spring at the Ballet Ball; seated next to him at dinner, I couldn’t have asked for a finer evening! Roger is an absolutely enchanting conversationalist. That night, I learned that he is a professor…
No one needs to tell my dear friend Betsy Wills to lean in! She has managed a family and high-test career with energy and enthusiasm to spare. She is hard-working, fun-loving, and terrifically smart. Most recently, she co-founded YouScience, an…
“Brad Paisley, you can almost Start Me Up, but we are here for the Rolling Stones!” – Kobie Pretorius, Facebook, from LP Field, 6/17/2015. From George Cassidy, author and rocker (reposted from December 2014): A Prince Among Stones by Prince Rupert…
A novel that features Rag and Bone, Skull and Bones, global conspiracy and a falcon named Sting is worthy of its own category – and claims it! The Union Club: A Subversive Thriller is exactly that: a thriller that makes its…
Elizabeth Colton Walls has a quick wit, a ready smile, and encyclopedic knowledge of both Nashville and New York City. She grew up here – part of the illustrious Colton clan – but lived in the City for 20 years before…
Josh Herring and wife Lauren hail from East Tennessee but stayed in Nashville after he graduated from the Owen School. Thank you again, Vanderbilt, for all that you do! When he’s not busy working at Merrill Lynch in the Private…
When you’ve finished The Goldfinch, by all means take a breather. You’ve just knocked back about three regular-length books. You need a palate cleanser! Read a magazine, catch up on your favorite TV show, maybe see Maleficent or Godzilla. If you’re…