A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

In the Valley of the Shadow

…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…

Alex Haley (1921-1992)

…of fictionalizing several aspects of Malcolm’s life. After the success of Malcolm X, Haley stumbled across the names of his maternal great-grandparents while going through the National Archives’ post-Civil War…

Timeless

…for a living. The experience of losing her parents and her unusual visions cause her to question her own sanity. But everything changes when she meets Michael. A sexy and…

Now in Print

D.B. Henson spent ten years selling houses and another seven working for a company that builds them, but her secret dream had always been to write a novel. When an…

Out of the Box

…in all subjects ever studied in human history. Nashville’s literati—Robert Penn Warren and Allen Tate and James Dickey, just for starters—shopped there, but these tiny, dusty, dear places that made…

The Novelist and the Nun

…Mercy. (The school now ends after 8th grade, but during Patchett’s youth, the St. Bernard campus housed an all-girls high school, as well). One of the nuns there is the…

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