We were a community then, and Tommy remembered.
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Helping neighbors in need
Helping neighbors in need
We were a community then, and Tommy remembered.
Read moreA booklover’s guide to the Southern Festival of Books
The festival is about love. Love for the beautiful words that move and delight us, love for the authors who put those words on paper and screen, and love for the culture and community of the book.
Read moreI connect with Memphis in a way maybe only outsiders can
Beautiful and brutal. Brash and fruitful. Memphis means something. I love it as a place, I love it as a people, and I love it as a promise.
Read moreI’m looking for whatever support comes along, earthly and otherworldly
I’m a believer in synchronicity: one sighting begets another — the more you see, the more you get — like these spiraled pearls outside my door just as summer ends, on the cusp of bittersweetness when losses cut deeper in autumn, bleed into the brilliant dying back.
Read moreA childhood friendship filled with possibility
In our play, Jim and I coexist in a landscape of our own discovery with an atmosphere of richer oxygen. The world opens up in a new way, more becomes possible, there is a new kind of magic and an altered reality.
Read moreJames Dickey in the classroom
In those days I wanted to become a novelist, but Mr. Dickey, author of a bestselling novel and wildly successful screenplay, taught only poetry, which he called in one of his book titles “the central motion.” So poetry it was.
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