Chapter 16
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Book Excerpt: Kingfisher Days

Each Page a Ghost

Shadow But where to file this memory? Umbrellas of milkweed fluff poppinsing backlit over cars, the low sun’s Regency glow on domestic brick but on cars’ metal blinding. A vagrant…

Week Links

Check out all the places Tennessee writers have appeared online in the past week

…Stanford Medicine, in an article called “The Healing Hand: Putting the Physical Back in the Physical Exam.” In the July 10 issue of The Wall Street Journal he lists his…

Detour in Tennessee

The Academy of American Poets honors Kimiko Hahn’s poem about Sweetwater Caverns

…till he can “climb out of the caverns / into the six o’clock evening sun” and buy a six pack. Read the poem, and hear Hahn read it aloud, here….

Writeous

Online auction “Do the Write Thing” brings in $75,000 for Tennessee flood relief

…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…

Bright Lights, Long Battery Life

Author Jay McInerney beefs up his high-tech cred with a (sort-of) review of the Apple iPad

…to get online.” (Only half a thumb for wireless world-wide-webbed connectivity? We always suspected that the Internet was overrated.) Read the story online — with wires or without — here….

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