{"id":152053,"date":"2025-09-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152053"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:13:00","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-square-books-present-tom-piazza-for-living-in-the-present-with-john-prine-thursday-september-25-2025-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-square-books-present-tom-piazza-for-living-in-the-present-with-john-prine-thursday-september-25-2025-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour & Square Books Present Tom Piazza for “Living in the Present With John Prine” Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Square Books presents Tom Piazza for Living in the Present With John Prine<\/em>, a joyful, moving,\u00a0vivid window onto the life and heart of an American icon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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About the book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a 1977 Coupe\u00a0DeVille with the great singer-songwriter John Prine, taking a\u00a0Florida road trip that soon evolved into a deep friendship, full of\u00a0jokes and tall tales over epic meals, afternoons digging around\u00a0\u00a0antique malls and record stores, and long nights playing guitar\u00a0and trading songs. Eventually they decided to write Prine\u2019s\u00a0memoir together, and Prine shared intimate, often hilarious\u00a0stories of his youth and family in Chicago and Kentucky, his\u00a0\u00a0breakthrough into the national spotlight, his riotous early years in\u00a0\u00a0the Nashville country scene, and much more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Prine died suddenly of COVID in April 2020, that\u00a0\u00a0unfinished memoir evolved into an intimate narrative of the artist\u2019s final years. Piazza offers fans an\u00a0 unforgettable portrait of the beloved musician in his late glory\u2014as a boyish cut-up, an epic raconteur, a\u00a0 great American poet, and most importantly, the good friend his fans have always imagined.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tom Piazza\u2019s books include the nonfiction bestseller Why New Orleans Matters <\/em>and the novels The  Auburn Conference <\/em>and A Free State<\/em>. He is a four-time winner of the ASCAP\u2013Deems Taylor Award for  Music Writing. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Living in the Present With John Prine\u00a0<\/strong>
By Tom Piazza\u00a0
$27.99\u00a0
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company\u00a0
ISBN: 9781324050858<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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