Book Excerpt: Visitations
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: John Bensko won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first book, Green Soldiers. His other books include The Waterman’s Children and The Iron City. The poem “Snow Day” appears in his 2014 collection, Visitations.
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Jeff Apter surveys the life of a modest rock star in Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly
Jeff Apter’s Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly tells the story of a legitimate rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, as influential as his more celebrated peers at Sun Records like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash.
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Bryce Ashby and Michael LaRosa bring historical and personal insight to the immigration debate
Immigration, Policy and the People of Latin America, a new book by attorney Bryce Ashby and historian Michael LaRosa, combines history, policy, and personal profiles to illuminate the diverse experiences of migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Colombia.
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A writerly love story, happy ending not guaranteed
The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
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Alice Faye Duncan celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the joy of African American music
Memphis-born storyteller Alice Faye Duncan has made it her life’s mission further the message of Martin Luther King Jr. through her transcendent work as a children’s author, educator, and librarian. Her recent picture books celebrate African American music as a source of joy and a form of resistance.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Bite by Bite is a nourishing, lyrical sampler
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s latest book, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees, offers a veritable smorgasbord of flavors and a multi-course menu of memories. Nezhukumatathil will appear at Begonia Labs in Nashville on January 16.
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