Author Q&A: Lauren Nossett’s ‘Indie Darling’ is a thriller that could only be set in Music City
"Indie Darling" By Lauren Nossett (Flatiron Books, 304 pages, $28.99)

"Indie Darling" By Lauren Nossett (Flatiron Books, 304 pages, $28.99)

Leslie Baird's debut novel, "Salomé," offers a genre-defying tale: a bildungsroman wrapped in layers of gothic mysticism, with a reimagined classic femme fatale.

Carolyn Newton's "Songs of the Dead Road" is a historical novel firmly anchored in time and place, tracing the life of a Polish pianist shaped by the violent currents of 20th-century Europe.

"Dead Man Blues," a crime novel by S.D. House (pen name of bestselling author Silas House), combines a nail-biting whodunit with the tale of a man in search of redemption.

This year marks the publication of three books by Dan O'Brien: "Survivor's Notebook," his fifth poetry collection; "From Scarsdale," a memoir mining his childhood and its traumatic impressions; and "True Story," a trilogy of documentary plays.

In new collection of essays, Jami Attenberg reveals the writing life

There's much to be said for good old-fashioned thrillers, in which the protagonist is up against a tangled web of villains whose greed and utter lack of compunction on their crooked path to gluttonous control have left a stack of corpses in their wake.
