Greetings from New Nashville considers the city’s transformation and its future
…fortune as much as municipal planning. The 1998 tornado, for example, resulted in a boom of new construction, especially in East Nashville. What other factors would you highlight as critical…
Michael Ian Black makes the case for a new masculinity in A Better Man
…the ideal is always unattainable. What we can do, though, is rethink traditional gender roles so that we inch closer to a world in which men feel free to be…
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community
…final words on the Faulkner family legacy in an autobiography, Every Day by the Sun. Wells observes, “To those born without it genius can be a forbidding heritage.” But Dean’s…
In M.O. Walsh’s endearing new novel, a strange machine disrupts life in a small Southern town
…other, with a historic square, shops “that hang flowering baskets,” a Catholic high school, an upcoming festival, and a grocery store. In this grocery appears, almost as if by magic,…
After three decades in children’s books, acclaimed author-illustrator David Wiesner is still eager to innovate
…into some technical difficulties — until big sister Cathode, aka Cathy, saves the day with the correct assembly and an operating system update. The genesis of the book came during…
You Want More spans the career of one of the South’s most beloved storytellers
…a cast of what Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor called “grotesques”: misshapen people with wonderfully alliterative names like Mack Morris Murray, Libby Belcher, Paula Purgason, Mal Morris, and Hellbent Heidi…
