Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Americanaland the Beautiful

John Milward’s survey of Americana music positively sings

…and Jimmie Rodgers, but also Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, with nods to Steve Earle and Gillian Welch along the way, all in just the first chapter? How else would…

Time Travel with McCarthy

An outdoor homage to Suttree and Knoxville’s past

…regional artists, including Kelle Jolly, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bill MacKay, and RB Morris, who will also read passages from the book. The film will be shown on a 40-foot screen,…

The Spaces Between People

Corey Mesler shares a few thoughts on antiheroes, privacy, and prolificity

…usually hidden. It’s easy to see a parallel with the destruction of personal privacy in the digital age. Is that loss of privacy something that troubles you? Mesler: No, I’m…

The Curvature of the World

Great Circle explores the interconnected lives surrounding a famous woman aviator

…life in a less self-sabotaging direction.    Drawn to Marian’s story as a child, Hadley recognized salient but coincidental parallels between them. Hadley had lost her own parents in a…

The Cost of Healing

Anjali Enjeti’s The Parted Earth follows several generations of personal fallout from India’s Partition

…Spanning generations and countries, The Parted Earth examines the personal costs of starting over in the face of tragedy, whether those tragedies are intimate losses or shockwaves of upheaval across…

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