Book Excerpt: I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World
Self-Portrait as Getting Drunk Dialed by God Oh to be shameless as a bachelorette party singing “Friends in Low Places” as they cruise 12 South in a pedal tavern. Maybe…
Ross King details the book industry of the Italian Renaissance
The irony was exquisite reading Ross King’s The Bookseller of Florence on an iPad using Kindle software. Photo: Melanie King In this history book about books for book nerds, the…
With gratitude for Edward Hirsch and his expansive body of work
With over 2.7 million lives lost worldwide in just one year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic — nearly 550,000 in the United States alone — I can think of few…
The gift of letting go
On November 30, 2020, we sold our house in East Nashville. Now we are embarked on a Great Adventure — driving a Nissan cargo van out to the desert Southwest…
A historian weaves the story of Nashville hot chicken with a chronicle of race and real estate
In the introduction to Hot, Hot Chicken, Rachel Louise Martin marvels that most white Nashvillians of her generation — herself included — grew up knowing nothing about hot chicken, now…
Book Excerpt: I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites
Nashville opened its $623 million, 1.2 million square-foot Music City Center to both fanfare and voices of dissent in May 2013. Its boosters call it a shining monument to the…
