The meaning of the Southern Festival of Books in a season of loss
…through words alone. We often conceive of loss only as a falling away, but it is also a binding. Think of the groups whose only purpose is to bring together…
Lisa Donovan’s memoir is never short of passion
“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…
Connor Towne O’Neill grapples with America’s legacy of white supremacy
…about why some people crave the “palliatives” of flags and monuments? O’Neill: American history is terrifying. The violence and devastation — physical, environmental, economic, spiritual — that undergird this country…
Greetings from New Nashville considers the city’s transformation and its future
…York or Los Angeles!” And feeding into that, there were all those articles in national publications that we liked to nitpick and roll our eyes at. But when a city…
Michael Ian Black makes the case for a new masculinity in A Better Man
…of male struggles. In the book, I talk about how women understand men better than men understand women because men have always been the dominant societal figures. Now that’s changing,…
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community
…in Oxford, including William Styron, Alex Haley, Jim Harrison, George Plimpton, James Dickey, and David Halberstam. “All writers begin as book fiends, eggheads, and smart-alecks,” Wells writes of Barry Hannah….
