Songs from a Voice by Baron Wormser
No one can speak for Bob Dylan except Bob Dylan. Fiction, however, has other thoughts. In Songs from a Voice Baron Wormser has created a narrator who offers a first-person take on the years that begin in the spaces of the upper Midwest and wind up in the streets of Greenwich Village. Baron Wormser’s eighteenth book is a genre-bending novel that explores creativity through poetry, prose, and American music history. Songs from a Voice is a homage, investigation, sly nod and, ultimately, an affirmation of the strength of one man’s imagination.
Man in the (Rearview) Mirror by LaRue Cook
A finalist for the 2019 Georgia Author of the year Award, this essay collection has been hailed by Pulitzer winner Eli Saslow as “a work of vivid reporting about this fractious American moment.” LaRue Cook explores a deeply personal journey through love, loss, and self-discovery, using the lens of a physical journey across the United States, and abroad, by a former corporate sports-editor-turned-Uber driver. Part voyeuristic, part inspirational, sometimes hilarious, always thoughtful and probing, Man in the (Rearview) Mirror is a book about learning to love yourself (and others) at a time in America when it is often too easy to hate
