John Grisham photographed at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. On a rack at the front of Burke’s Book Store in Memphis is a postcard showing the store in an earlier era, overhung by a billboard that’s no ...

John Green is one of those authors whose bibliography is so varied that it’s hard to know which of his bestsellers fellow bibliophiles might be familiar with. To jog their memory, should you mention ...

“Spying and novel writing are made for each other,” John le Carré once wrote. “Both call for a ready eye for human transgression and the many routes to betrayal. Those of us who have been inside the ...

Tom Piazza is a novelist who occasionally moonlights as a music writer. Across the pages of his latest nonfiction book, he’s both. The New Orleans-based author’s “Living In the Present with John Prine ...