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Detour in Tennessee
June 3, 2010 Today’s poem at poets.org, an online publication of the Academy of American Poets, is “The Sweetwater Caverns” by Kimiko Hahn. As with much of Hahn’s work, the…
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…they were drowning in emails and couldn’t process them all. So much money came in so quickly that PayPal temporarily froze their account before the auction was halfway through. By…
Nashville Sports History: Stories From the Stands
The History Press
128 pages
$19.99
“Enjoy this all-access pass to over a century of sports in the Music City packed into one exciting volume. Watch from the bleachers as Ty Cobb practices with the Vanderbilt football team and Babe Ruth blasts home runs out of the old Sulphur Dell Park, or go all the way back to 1843 and witness what was then the richest horse race in the world at the Nashville Race Course. These are but a few of the stories compiled by local award-winning sportswriter Bill Traughber in this one-of-a-kind collection no sports fan should be without. Included are excerpts from local sportswriters like the legendary Grantland Rice and over forty historic photographs from the playing field.”
—from the publisher
“Bill Traughber has completed a must-have book on Nashville’s sports history. His research is extensive and covers the gamut from horse racing, football, baseball, the early days of Nashville golf, basketball, auto racing and steeplechase.”
—Joe Biddle, The Tennessean
Bright Lights, Long Battery Life
April 14, 2010 Early adopters take note, Jay McInerney half-blogs his initial response to Apple’s iPad over at The Daily Beast. Along the way, he opines on Amazon vs. Apple,…
Not Your Father's Fugitive
…of the most influential—and, at times, controversial—journals in history was also launched by members of the Vanderbilt University English Department doesn’t worry Nashville Review editor Matthew Baker a bit. He…
