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…
Dallas and her husband Fleming joke that they were the last single people left standing in Nashville and found each other by default. This was a few years ago, of course, before the current youth invasion. First date to wedding…
I’m not sure I’ll ever have the chance to take a walk in Lagos, Nigeria, or ride a danfo (small, scary bus) there, or hop on the back of a motorcycle with someone (another common form of transportation). You never know where life…
I first met author Alice Randall when she visited book club at my friend Lawrence Blank-Cook’s home years ago, when Lawrence and her family lived on Central. Our book club was discussing The Wind Done Gone, and Alice agreed to come and…