My intention had been to attend a writing retreat, but I suddenly had the feeling that I was actually there to attend a labyrinth retreat.
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Minding the Metaphors
Walking a labyrinth for the first time taught me to trust the path
Being Neighborly the Maggie Valley Way
Kerry Madden-Lunsford returns to the Smoky Mountains in her new picture book
East Tennessee native Kerry Madden-Lunsford visits Parnassus Books on April 14 to share her newest picture book, Ernestine’s Milky Way, with young readers.
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When Science Was Bipartisan
Nathaniel Rich looks back at a decade when addressing climate change seemed well within our grasp
“Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979,” writes Nathaniel Rich in Losing Earth. “The conditions for success were so favorable that they have the quality of a fable.” Rich will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 17.
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Books and Rock, Love and Theft
Florence Dore explores early rock’s relationship to Southern fiction in Novel Sounds
Nashville native Florence Dore’s Novel Sounds explores early rock and roll’s influence on postwar Southern fiction, zeroing in on the use of the ballads and blues traditions. Dore will discuss Novel Sounds alongside Nashville musician Kevin Gordon at Vanderbilt University’s First Amendment Center Auditorium on April 11.
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Intimate Strangers
A new essay collection edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith explores the mother-child relationship
Mothers and Strangers, edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith, features explorations of what Serageldin calls the “most intimate of strangers, the women who raised us.” Serageldin and Smith will discuss the essay collection at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 12. Smith will also appear with Jill McCorkle, Marshall Chapman, and Matraca Berg in a performance of Good Ol’ Girls at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville on April 11.
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“More Honored in the Breach: A Note to Ghost, Absent”
Book Excerpt: The Feral Condition
Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. His most recent books are a cookbook-memoir, The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire, and a new collection, The Feral Condition, from which this poem is excerpted.
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