Book Excerpt: A Walk to the Spring House
A Walk to the Spring House is the second poetry collection by Sue Weaver Dunlap, who lives near Walland, Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and Southern Poetry Anthology.
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Book Excerpt: Even When We Sleep
Even When We Sleep, due in June 2022, is the latest collection by Marilyn Kallet, former Knoxville Poet Laureate. Previous collections include How Our Bodies Learned, The Love That Moves Me, and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems.
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What was my pandemic nostalgia really about?
When COVID-19 struck and the world shut down in March 2020, I escaped reality by searching for the dream toy of my childhood.
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Joel Agee’s debut novel delves into a young boy’s mind in a time of crisis
The Stone World, the first novel from memoirist and translator Joel Agee, tracks the burgeoning consciousness of a boy living with his parents in 1940s Mexico. Agee, son of legendary writer James Agee, depicts a world of émigré artists who teach the protagonist about art, politics, and community.
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Autistic actor Mickey Rowe celebrates difference
Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage is Mickey Rowe’s memoir of growing up with autism and his barrier-breaking career. Rowe will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 16.
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Elizabeth Elkins sorts fact from fiction about Nashville’s Timothy Demonbreun
The record is full of gaps when it comes to the life of Timothy Demonbreun, the French Canadian fur trader who has come to be known as Nashville’s first resident. Elizabeth Elkins goes about getting the story straight in We Should Soon Become Respectable, a lively, well-researched history of a mysterious man.
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