Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Mon Dieu!

Holly Tucker’s City of Light, City of Poison is a nonfiction thriller of Parisian intrigue

…read—and Nicholas de La Reynie a detective for the ages. [Click here to read an excerpt from City of Light, City of Poison.] Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at Henderson…

A Park is Born

Following the success of last year’s Smoky Jack, Ken Wise and Anne Bridges revive another memoir by Paul J. Adams

Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He is the author of several books of nonfiction and coauthor of a recent textbook, Creating Comics as…

Marching Tall

The third volume of John Lewis’s memoir of the civil-rights movement may be the best yet

…the dedication line that all three volumes share: “To the past and future children of the movement.” Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He…

Scaling the Empathy Wall

In Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild finds the heart of the political right

…to achieve what you call “the capacity to connect across difference”? Hochschild: Every day and all the time. Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas….

Good Dog

With Smoky Jack, a lost classic of nature writing is finally published after ninety years

…yarn will be wagging their metaphorical tails over Smoky Jack. Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He is the author of several books of…

Yum

Roy Blount Jr. serves up a mess of Southern essays and poems about cooking

…of itself for putting on airs. It is as delightfully sinful as a third piece of strawberry pie. Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas….

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