Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Will Allen Dromgoole (1860-1934)

Will Allen Dromgoole was born in Murfreesboro, the last child of John Easter and Rebecca Blanche Dromgoole. When she was six, Dromgoole changed her middle name to Allen, and throughout…

The True Costs of Amazon's Savings

According to a new analysis of a study by UT, it’s even worse than we thought

…are and support their local bookstores instead of buying books online. Garrigan argues that Amazon’s refusal to collect the state and local sales taxes that other bricks-and-mortar stores collect–taxes that…

Evelyn Scott (1893-1963)

…often, she was seen as a modernist; her work was published alongside James Joyce and T.S. Elliot in Egoist, Poetry, Dial, and other literary journals. Key themes of her work…

Wilmer Mills (1969-2011)

…temperament, the poems are all precisely metered, and written in blank verse. Even though Mills’ work frequently bleeds into agricultural territory, he considered himself a poet, not a farmer: “I…

Defeating Dementia

Walter Mosley talks with Chapter 16 about aging, politics, and the many jobs of a prolific writer

…the mystery is. Sometimes I’m talking really straightforward about politics. Sometimes I’m talking about deep emotional or societal issues. For me to write three different kinds of books, it’s not…

In the Valley of the Shadow

Barry Kitterman’s From the San Joaquin finds meaning in small, lived moments

…his own action, even at the local church revival meeting: “When [the preacher] had Coral Ann come play the piano real soft, everyone was supposed to close his eyes and…

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