Dynamite Nashville got reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books today. The review is stupendous. So, of course, I’m dwelling on the slight criticism of all my tangents and letting it define my personal worth, because I’m made 150% of tangents! How can there be anyone who doesn’t find my tangents charming? How can anyone not find my one personality trait charming?!
In real life, this is wonderful and I think it features parts of the book in ways that make it seem worth reading, even if you’re not familiar with Nashville.
I was invited to Nashville Councilperson Vo’s bookclub on Wednesday and it was delightful. I think it’s the first time I’ve done an event where nearly everyone had read the book. The one person who didn’t read the book said it was because, even though the Nashville Public Library has thirty copies, the wait list is twice that. I was like, “What? Thirty? That can’t be right.”
Thirty-six copies?! Fifty-five people on the wait list?! Only two stars?! I don’t know why the two stars are funny to me, but the other isn’t, but I guess it’s because I know the reviewer in the LARB actually read the book.
Oh, and a while back, I was on the Coming from Left Field podcast. They sent me hot sauce afterward. They were very lovely.
I think that’s everything going on with the book that I know about.
Oh, oh, wait. I’ll be at the Southern Festival of Books this year. My session is at 10 o’clock on Saturday in the Obion Room of the TSLA. It’s me and Aran Shetterly, whose new book is about the Greensboro Massacre. Come for the early civil-rights-era racial terrorism, stay for the late civil-rights-era racial terrorism. There’s a book signing directly after.
Okay, now I think that’s everything.
Hey! I'm your SFB session host! I'm so excited!