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Booklisted

Amy Greene’s Bloodroot is in the Top Ten

October 15, 2010 The year isn’t out yet, but Booklist, a pre-publication review site, has already posted its Top Ten list for the best debut novels of 2010, and Morristown’s…

Tennessee Sweep

Poets Kate Daniels and Jeff Daniel Marion to be honored by the Fellowship of Southern Writers

October 15, 2010 This week, the Fellowship of Southern Writers notified Kate Daniels and Jeff Daniel Marion that they would be honored in April at the Fellowship’s Conference on Southern…

Citizens of the World

Marge Piercy talks with Chapter 16 about poetry, fiction, memoir, and writing as a political act

Marge Piercy’s productivity and accomplishments are nothing short of astounding. She has published seventeen novels in genres as diverse as science fiction and historical fiction, including The New York Times…

Floating in Memphis

Patrick O’Daniel records the Bluff City’s greatest disaster

In Memphis and the Superflood of 1937: High Water Blues, librarian Patrick O’Daniel has written a compact volume detailing of one of the worst floods in American history. In early…

House Proud

Ann Patchett loves her Nashville home

October 14, 2010 If you’re the kind of reader who longs to know whether your favorite novelist writes at a desk or on a laptop, Ann Patchett has a treat…

Typo-Cast

Two underemployed spelling geeks set out to rid the world of errata

If all you knew about the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) was its name, you might conjure a group of retired English teachers, and a few of their librarian friends,…

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