Past and present mingle in collections by Loving, Shockley, and Underwood
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on June 27, 2023. *** Denton Loving’s Tamp The Cumberland Gap farmland where Denton Loving lives suffuses the atmosphere of his…
Book Excerpt: The Intimacy of Spoons
Hawk Says Finally Once in the gap between hills Hawk hovered against hard blue sky for so long — no twitch no strain each muscle twining with wind red tail…
Lessons in love and loss from a soul with four legs
The rough-looking man who first plucked me from a basket would later say those who believe dogs have no soul only say that because they lack one of their own….
For 25 years she held our family
For 25 years she held our family. Mr. McGaw, himself a 50-year resident, handed over the keys all those years ago with the ceremony befitting a white-haired university historian. He…
The Girls of Atomic City tells the stories of women in wartime Oak Ridge
Growing up I had a cousin named Dimple who lived in Oak Ridge. She was 46 years older than me, the oldest cousin on that side of the family, while…
Half-Life of a Secret explores a family’s secrets and a nation’s silence
…Oak Ridge, transfixed by a photograph of her long-dead grandfather standing in front of a nuclear explosion. Photo: Alex Carroll Photography. “I felt myself floating, unmoored from time and space,…
