The answer to how much of COPYBOY is “true” is a more difficult question to answer than the same question about PAPERBOY. I talked a little about this at the Knoxville launch of COPYBOY at the East Tennessee History Center, sponsored by the Friends of Knox County...

Close friends and relatives state with a quizzical eye that I genuinely seem to enjoy crisscrossing the country to talk about my books. My answer is that I have never enjoyed anything as much. The book launch in Memphis for COPYBOY on July 31 is a good example. I did...

The wonderful Alison Krauss sings this lyric that has always haunted me: “You say it best when you say nothing at all.” That phrase sifted through my head as I read Mona Batchelor’s review of COPYBOY on her blog, “The Hiking Librarian.” Mona is a school librarian from...