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“The Branches, the Axe, the Missing”

Charlotte Pence is a poet and critic who recently received her Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Tennessee. A regular Chapter 16 contributor, she is also the author…

What E-Books Really Cost

…deserving books while churning out title after title that can only be called tripe. And royalties paid by traditional publishers—typically fifteen percent—can’t possibly compete with Amazon, which pays authors anywhere…

Roar Trip

called The Lion, right off the highway in North Carolina. (Tracee happens to be wearing a wedding dress, but Ephron doesn’t reveal the story behind that detail until well into…

Fifty-Two Killer Bloggers

April 4, 2012 Organizers of Killer Nashville, the annual conference for readers and aspiring writers, has launched a new blog, “A Killer Conversation: an online community of readers and writers…

Resist the Amazon Scan Scam!

…get that deal. In Knoxville, Union Ave. Books doesn’t get that deal. They all dutifully collect sales tax and turn it over to the government to fund education, workforce development,…

Listen: Twenty Nine Short Conversations

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202 Pages
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“Corey Mesler’s page-turning collection offers readers conversation: here is a deeply engaging mode which delights the intelligence while also registering on the nervous system of its readers – a combination that will wake you right up. These pieces also return us to the essence of the gift of conversation itself: that we might learn to live with it – the mysteries and gaps that haunt the human experience. This is an exciting new work from a writer who knows how to position himself in order to truly listen and mercifully invites his readers to do the same.”

— Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

Listen: Twenty Nine Short Conversations
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