Blood and Treasure chronicles Daniel Boone’s role in settling Kentucky
In Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the story of Boone’s role in pushing American settlement west of the Appalachians. Drury and Clavin will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Novel in Memphis on May 13.
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Josephine Caminos Oría’s Sobremesa celebrates family and food
Sobremesa, the second book by Argentine-American author Josephine Caminos Oría, is a delicious paean to her roots and to the culture that informs her life’s work. Oría will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Novel in Memphis on May 6.
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W. Ralph Eubanks explores the literary tradition in Mississippi
In A Place Like Mississippi, W. Ralph Eubanks marries searching prose with stunning photographs. While touring the state, he introduces us to its writers and their intertwined legacies.
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Anjali Enjeti considers her identity in an evolving region in Southbound
In the final pages of Southbound, Anjali Enjeti’s collection of essays on identity, race, and Southern politics, the author poses one simple but thorny question that looms like a ghost over much of the work: “Who am I?”
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Hannah Carmona tells a story of emigration in Anita and the Dragons
Hannah Carmona discusses her new picture book, Anita and the Dragons, illustrated by Anna Cunha, with Chapter 16.
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On seeing Knoxville’s past and present
I watch the TikTok videos of a man in Knoxville. He roller skates — backwards — across Market Square plaza, inside and outside the Convention Center, and down Volunteer Landing that snakes parallel to the Tennessee River. He skates down the brightly graffitied Strong Street alley. Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me” plays as he skims past the images and murals on the alley walls. The pictures swirl into swaths of neon colors like a psychedelic dream.
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