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A Colorful Cast of Characters

Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder talks with Chapter 16 about tonight’s world premiere of her new play, Everything That’s Beautiful

…wake.” She has been busy ever since writing plays. Best known among them is Gee’s Bend, the tale of a celebrated Alabama quilter. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival commissioned and first…

Brand-New Bookstores

In East Nashville, Her Bookshop and Atomic Nashville offer two new buy-local options

…John Lewis’s graphic memoir, but I also picked up a copy of a bestselling conventional memoir, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Atomic also stocks all-local music and art, and it’s here…

Contracts with the Devil

In Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Heat and Light, energy companies choose profits over safety

…Heat and Light, addresses the calamity of fracking. Though Haigh makes it clear from the start that energy exploration inevitably carries environmental costs, she fills her novel with characters who…

Forsaking All Others

With Hide, Matthew Griffin has written a love story for the ages

…were never written for fear of social or even legal repercussions? Maurice by E.M. Forster comes to mind. It was nearly one of those silenced stories. A tale of same-sex…

It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

In Mark Greaney’s fifth Court Gentry novel, Back Blast, the Gray Man is back in the USA to get answers

…I’ve ever seen of this series was The Gray Man in Italian, which came out last year. It wasn’t even in English. I can’t read it. Chapter 16: What’s the…

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