Magic Surrealism
During the late Cambrian, shallow seas covered much of the land between the Rockies and Appalachia, their beds thickening with the muck of life. Later, as South America crashed into…
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Murder Memoir
In the fall of 1979, Bob Cowser Jr. was a nine-year-old baseball enthusiast in the tiny town of Greenfield, a suburb of Martin, Tennessee, when his friend Cary Ann Medlin…
Bird Fever
“Since the early 1900s, one question and one question alone has swirled around the largest woodpecker to live in our part of the world,” Knoxville naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales writes…
Odd Duck
At first glance, Vanderbilt graduate Roy Blount Jr.’s Hail, Hail, Euphoria! Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made appears to be an essay, perhaps…
The Italian Job
“A spy prefers to share only that which is to his benefit, no more, and much of what he shares will not be true,” cautions the journalist Steve Hendricks in…
Riffing on the River
Among the many peculiar beliefs, practices, and entertainments along the Mississippi in the early nineteenth century was a ritual sport known as “shout-boasting.” As essayist Lee Sandlin explains in Wicked…
