Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

The Good Fight

Crusading newspaper editor Carl Magee comes alive in compelling biography Citizen Carl

…his dogged determination and utter fearlessness. It’s not that he didn’t run from a fight. He relished the fight — and the bigger the foe, the better. For a man…

Troubled Paradise

Stephen Hundley’s Bomb Island explores a 14-year-old boy’s dangerous coming of age

Stephen Hundley, author of the story collection The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First, continues the theme of writing about Georgia in his debut novel, Bomb Island. Filled to the

Strawberry Season Arrives

A berry lover nominates a new contender for the most wonderful time of the year

…live in the right places. In our neck of the woods, the strawberry epicenter is Portland, Tennessee, and on farms stretching out and around the rolling hills of the region….

How to Start a Civil War

Erik Larson puts the reader in the action during the lead-up to America’s deadliest conflict

…of Unrest, Larson skillfully applies the storytelling techniques perfected through several bestsellers, including The Splendid and the Vile, Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, and The Devil in the

Motherless Child

Monica Brashears’ debut novel delivers a strange, haunting world

…drawing on the terrifying reality of a child who has been sold away from their enslaved mother. But what of the mother who has lost her child? What if the

“Haunting My Own Name”

Julian Randall’s lyrical memoir uncovers the past to light a brighter future

…in the aftermath of the stewardship of oppression? “But I have unrelenting faith in the liberation of the people…and boundless hope that the oppressed will find their way towards freedom,”…

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