Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Evelyn Scott (1893-1963)

…1930s living in New York City until her marriage to British writer John Metcalfe. They lived in Canada and England until the 1950s, when she returned to the United States….

Wilmer Mills (1969-2011)

Steady rhythm and rules were driving forces not only behind Wilmer Mills’ daily life, but also his poetry, as he thought of “narrative, metrical, old-fashioned poetry as a kind of…

Alex Haley (1921-1992)

…the 1977 National Book Award. However, the griot who supposedly recounted Haley’s family history quickly came under intense scrutiny. Critics claimed that the old man was a well-known trickster, who…

Now in Print

D.B. Henson’s DIY publication yielded 100,000 ebook sales—and a traditional publishing contract

…of action and betrayal. Did you determine from the beginning to pull all her props out from under her, or did you find the plot taking turns you didn’t anticipate?…

Out of the Box

Borders and Davis-Kidd may be gone, but that doesn’t mean Nashville can’t support a bookstore

…to buy books; it’s also a place to find kindred souls. If you already know what you want to read, Amazon is almost impossible to resist. Buying a book online

The Novelist and the Nun

In an essay for Granta, Ann Patchett considers her long friendship with Sister Nena

March 25, 2011 Ann Patchett spent twelve years as a student at St. Bernard Academy, a Catholic school in Nashville run by an order of nuns called the Sisters of…

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