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Small Mercies

In A Small Thing to Want, a collection of short stories by Johnson City writer Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, the most vital moments are often the most private. Cawood’s stories occupy…

The Glorious Pastime: Chanelle Benz

This Q&A with novelist Chanelle Benz launches a new occasional feature at Chapter 16, focused on the reading lives of prominent Tennesseans. We’re calling it “The Glorious Pastime” in a…

Child of the Green Routine

…relief from devastating symptoms when conventional medicine offered few options. Stories like Meridy’s place the rapidly evolving legal and cultural status of all cannabis-related products into fascinating perspective. “The AIDS…

The Paradise, The Grave, The City, The Wilderness

…as more than a colorful swirl of imagery. They provide a structural conceit that allows Smith to organize two millennia’s worth of material about Rome’s history and people. In “The…

Disappointed Idealist

…he grew to depend on her doing that fairly early in the marriage. She organized all the practical details of their life and his career and also by Damascus Gate,…

The Fringe of Dream

…bearing witness to music’s alchemical power in a volatile world. Smith’s latest dispatch from her nomadic travels, Year of the Monkey, also reflects the surreal confusion of our fractured, threatening…

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