A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Resist the Amazon Scan Scam!

…In fact, Patchett has written just such a book: it’s a wonderful little thing called The Getaway Car, but you can’t buy it at Parnassus. It’s available only on a…

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

…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

…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…

TAKE THE SHORT READER SURVEY! CHAPTER 16 SURVEYOR SURVEYING