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Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles...

>> anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, "what good is america?" well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock 'n' roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place -- one state -- mississippi. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on m...

Imani Perry was born in Birmingham and has established an astonishingly impressive career as an author.

Howell Raines, the former executive editor of the New York Times, explains why hundreds of Alabamians supported the Union Army in the Civil War.

Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp. So she’s thrilled when Trapp, who’s dying, asks her to write the story of his life. She’s invited to be a guest in the San Francisco family home with Trapp, his second wife, Diana, and his daughter, Maddy. Perhaps Nicky can solve a mystery or two while she’s there, Trapp hints: the disappearance of his first wife and son 20 years earlier.