Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Week Links

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

July 19, 2010 Bill Friskics-Warrren, Silas House, Amanda Little, Adam Ross, Rebecca Skloot, and Abraham Verghese are popping up all over the news scene: Music journalist Bill Friskics-Warren, author of…

Detour in Tennessee

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

…poem is less about its declared subject—in this case, the famous caverns in Sweetwater, Tennessee—than about the way the subject raises questions about the convergence of death and desire. Here,…

Writeous

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

…• Nashville novelist Susan Gregg Gilmore donated six copies of her soon-to-be-released novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, along with the promise of “a luscious homemade pound cake” and…

Bright Lights, Long Battery Life

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

…quantifies his travel reading requirements, and questions the holiness of print. “I don’t consider the magazine, as a physical object, to be sacred. It’s that it’s always been so much…

Not Your Father's Fugitive

Vanderbilt MFA candidates launch a new literary magazine

…of the most influential—and, at times, controversial—journals in history was also launched by members of the Vanderbilt University English Department doesn’t worry Nashville Review editor Matthew Baker a bit. He…

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