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Love Letter to the Dollyverse

…star, but also to flee hardship and the confining strictures around her personal choices — also involved a powerful return home. Parton shows unshakeable commitment to her Smoky Mountain homeland…

Suffering in Coal Country

…were unconventional – X-ray readings, CT scans, unreported diagnoses. And while company defense attorneys had limitless financial resources and time to appeal, the fragile plaintiffs might be investing the final

Home, Happiness, and Hurt

…their homemaking. In “Duos,” Devi Laskar describes her North Carolina childhood home as West Bengal in the South, filled with the aroma of buffalo carp and ground spices. Regina Bradley…

What We’ll Miss and What We’ll Share

…Often when we say, “I can’t wait to read this,” what we mean is that we can’t wait to be alone — for the world to fall away and be…

Baking Can Save You

“In the morning, there is a quiet light and an almost ethereal hum in a restaurant kitchen,” says Nashville writer Lisa Donovan in her new book, Our Lady of Perpetual

Same War, Same General

…we can. We’ve always had the capacity to do it, and we’ve always had people trying to teach us, pleading with us to be accountable to that fuller version of…

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