Bloodroot by Amy Greene

MTSU's Tennessee Literary Project

2011-11-28T18:06:00.000-08:00

To read my full conversation with Derrick Hill, click here .

Speaking at The University of Tennessee Knoxville

2011-10-19T19:42:00.001-07:00

Italian cover of Bloodroot.

2011-06-17T10:31:00.000-07:00

Recommended Reading

2011-06-06T18:16:00.001-07:00

Since I'm often asked for book recommendations, I've put together a list of my all-time favorites. Please feel free to comment with your own suggestions:

The Tiny One by Eliza Minot
Evening by Susan Minot
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kittredge by Elizabath Strout
Oral History by Lee Smith
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
1984 by George Orwell
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
It by Stephen King
The Hunters by Claire Messud
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Last Good Time by Richard Bausch
A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Father and Son by Larry Brown
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
The Typist by Michael Knight
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Room by Emma Donoghue
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
The Long Home by William Gay
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
This Gone Place by Lisa Parker
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Tinkers by Paul Harding
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Howard’s End by E.M. Forrester
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Signing Bloodroot at Bookland in Morristown, TN

2011-05-07T13:45:00.000-07:00

More Upcoming Events:
May 17-Signing at Club LeConte in Knoxville, TN
June 4-Reading at the Lakeway Festival of Words in Morristown, TN
June 30-Reading at Union Ave Books in Knoxville, TN
July 15-Speaking at the Clarksville Writers' Conference in Clarksville, TN
July 23-Novel Workshop for Knoxville Writers' Guild in Knoxville, TN
July 25-Novel Workshop at Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing Days in Abingdon, VA
July 31 through August 5-Appalachian Writers' Workshop in Hindman, KY
Sept. 18-SIBA Conference in Charleston, SC
Sept. 20-Speaking at Maryville College in Maryville, TN
Oct. 17-Speaking at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN

Last night I was honored to accept the Weatherford Award for fiction from the Appalachian Studies Association.

2011-03-12T13:48:00.000-08:00

Authors Revealed with Amy Greene

2011-03-06T13:00:00.001-08:00

Bloodroot is now available in paperback from Vintage Contemporaries

2011-01-03T07:42:00.000-08:00

Click here.

Bloodroot Makes NYT Paperback Row

2010-12-29T16:59:00.000-08:00

To see the article, clickhere.

Bloodroot at #49 on Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2010

2010-12-16T11:46:00.000-08:00

To see the full list, clickhere.

Bloodroot chosen as one of Booklist's Top 10 Debut Novels

2010-12-16T11:41:00.000-08:00

To see the list, click here.

Bloodroot makes Kirkus Reviews list of Best Debut Fiction.

2010-12-14T09:27:00.000-08:00

To see the full list, click here.

My Top 10 Books of 2010

2010-12-09T18:07:00.000-08:00

Here's my Top 10 Books of 2010, not ranked in order of preference. The first five are favorite books published in 2010, the second 5 are just books that I've loved this year:

1. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
2. The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
3. The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove by Susan Gregg Gilmore
4. The Typist by Michael Knight
5. Room by Emma Donaghue
6. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
7. Plainsong by Kent Haruf
8. Eventide by Kent Haruf
9. Eli the Good by Silas House
10. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

I'm very honored to have been named Tennessee Writer of the Year by the Tennessee Writers Alliance.

2010-11-13T16:52:00.000-08:00

Bloodroot at #5 on Amazon's Best Debut Fiction Top 10

2010-11-05T13:18:00.000-07:00

See the full list here.

My Interview on WKYU's Outside the Book

2010-08-18T17:31:00.000-07:00

Campaigning to the Choir

2010-08-04T17:57:00.000-07:00

To read my op-ed piece for the New York Times, click here.

My Top 5 Favorite Books of Summer (So Far)

2010-07-06T17:01:00.000-07:00

1. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
2. Tinkers by Paul Harding
3. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
4. One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
5. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

I'm now a member of the Random House Speakers Bureau....

2010-06-08T17:07:00.000-07:00

To see my profile on the Random House Speakers Bureau website, click here.

Bloodroot NYT Editor's Choice

2010-05-26T22:31:00.000-07:00

Click here.

NYT Review of Bloodroot

2010-05-26T22:28:00.000-07:00

Click here.

Discussing Bloodroot at Walters State in Morristown, TN

2010-05-07T20:26:00.001-07:00

With Silas House after Reading at LMU

2010-03-31T09:19:00.000-07:00

Reading Group Guide for Bloodroot now available.

2010-03-20T17:10:00.000-07:00

There is a reading group guide now available for Bloodroot. Click here.

Reading from Bloodroot at Mercantile Library in NYC

2010-03-08T18:00:00.001-08:00

Interview on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday

2010-02-21T17:01:00.000-08:00

Listen to the interview with Jacki Lyden here.

Touring the South for Bloodroot

2010-02-21T16:59:00.000-08:00

Interview on Between the Lines w/ Valerie Jackson

2010-02-12T18:30:00.000-08:00

To listen, click here.

Reading Bloodroot at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY

2010-02-06T12:05:00.000-08:00

Some recent reviews of Bloodroot

2010-02-05T20:06:00.000-08:00

Nashville Scene

The Madison County Herald

BookBrowse.com

On Tour in the Bay Area, CA

2010-02-03T11:29:00.000-08:00

Reading at FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA.

2010-01-24T22:27:00.000-08:00

Reading at Georgia Center for the Book

2010-01-24T21:45:00.001-08:00

Bloodroot Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly

2010-01-22T21:08:00.000-08:00

To read the full review, click here.

Reading at Carpe Librum in Knoxville, TN

2010-01-17T10:27:00.000-08:00

At Carpe Librum Bookstore in Knoxville, TN

2010-01-16T20:08:00.001-08:00

Interview on WBIR's Live at Five at Four

2010-01-15T20:16:00.000-08:00

To watch the interview, click here.

Reading at Barnes and Noble in Johnson City, TN

2010-01-13T20:30:00.001-08:00

Listen to Ann Kingman talk about Bloodroot in the latest podcast episode of Books on the Nightstand

2010-01-13T17:02:00.000-08:00

Click here.

Reading at Barnes and Noble in Johnson City, TN

2010-01-13T16:30:00.001-08:00

Interview on WJCW-AM's Thinking Out Loud Radio Show

2010-01-12T11:03:00.000-08:00

To hear my interview this morning on the "Thinking Out Loud" radio show, click here.

Bloodroot is on sale today!

2010-01-12T10:32:00.000-08:00

Quinn and Zoe Kumpfmiller find Bloodroot at Barnes and Noble in Pittsburgh, PA.

What am I doing the night before Bloodroot's debut? Signing 300 copies for Lemuria Bookstore's first editions club!

2010-01-11T13:50:00.000-08:00

Knoxville News Sentinel Features Bloodroot

2010-01-11T09:51:00.000-08:00

Read the article, with a video interview, here.

Final Guest Post for Kepler's Blog

2010-01-08T08:12:00.000-08:00

Read the post, "How the Workshop Experience Changed My Life," here.

Bloodroot Chosen as One of Amazon's Best Books of January

2010-01-06T15:03:00.000-08:00

Check out Amazon's review of Bloodroot, and the other books on the list, here.

Bloodroot Essay on Powell's Books Blog

2010-01-06T12:00:00.000-08:00

"There is a story my mother likes to tell me over and over. When she was a little girl, a witch lived down the road from her. The witch's name was Huldie, and she read the fortunes of her neighbors in the coffee grounds left at the bottoms of their cups. She was rumored to float through the holler woods at night with the soles of her feet not touching the ground. In daylight, my uncles threw rocks at her shack in a clearing so shady that no grass would grow there. My mother would run past Huldie's place on the way to school each morning with her head down, sure the old woman would be standing in the roadside weeds waiting to snatch her up. She and my aunts were warned by their parents to keep away from Huldie. My mother was small and scared enough to mind them, but my aunts were older and braver. They knocked on Huldie's door and gave her trinkets in exchange for having their fortunes told. Now my aunts have both passed away and they never spoke of what Huldie saw in the bottoms of their cups. But I can always imagine."

Read the full essay here.

Today's Guest Post on Kepler's Well-Read Donkey Blog

2010-01-06T11:54:00.000-08:00

Read the post, "Turning My Manuscript Into a Book," here.

Guest Blogging for Kepler's Books

2010-01-04T12:20:00.000-08:00

This week Amy Greene will be guest posting at Well-Read Donkey, the blog for Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, CA. Read the first post here.

BookPage features Bloodroot in their "Behind the Book" column

2010-01-01T10:02:00.000-08:00

"Behind the Book: Debut author finds inspiration close to home
Column by Amy Greene

On the way to my sister's, there is an abandoned house. It sits on a rocky hill with trees crowded close, overlooking a creek that parts a briar thicket. The windows are broken and the front door is gone, the tin roof rusted and the chimney stones tumbled down in a heap. I'm not sure when I first noticed the house, but now I look up there each time I pass. Sometimes cows are grazing in the shade of the yard. Sometimes there are cords of firewood stacked against its sooty clapboard. Once I saw a man riding a tractor on the hillside. I can understand why he lets the house stand empty. There's a sadness about it."

Continue reading here.

Bloodroot article from The Mountain Press

2009-12-27T13:04:00.000-08:00

Read the article here.

Bloodroot Audio

2009-12-15T19:14:00.000-08:00

Listen to a clip of the Bloodroot audio book
here

Read an excerpt of Bloodroot

2009-12-05T13:21:00.000-08:00

Read an excerpt of Bloodroot here.

Bloodroot mentioned on January 2010 Indie Next Great Reads List

2009-12-03T16:01:00.000-08:00

"Bloodroot by Amy Greene
(Knopf, $24.95, 9780307269867)
"The isolated Appalachian setting in Bloodroot is a powerful, realistic, and truly American stage on which basic human traits emerge under the heavy hand of hardship and poverty. This multi-generational story is a must-read for those who wish to expand their horizons, experience a part of our country often ignored, and face challenges head-on through honest and sparse prose. I'm still reeling." --Janel Feierabend, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA"

Click here to read the full article.

Bloodroot in Publisher's Weekly

2009-11-30T20:04:00.000-08:00

Bloodroot was recently featured in Publisher's Weekly:

Click here to read.