Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Beautiful Boy

Knoxville television station airs documentary on the life of a young drug addict

…and blogger Katie Allison Granju. Henry Granju was addicted to drugs, and died in May after suffering an overdose. The special airs commercial-free at 7:00 pm in East Tennessee, and…

Fantine's Folly

The protagonist of Susan Straight’s new novel can’t escape the past until she understands it

…art. Take One Candle Light a Room offers exquisitely rendered settings, lyrical prose, and a formidably large, multigenerational cast of characters. Its narrator, Fantine Antoine, an African American of Louisiana…

"Duskdawn"

…love, because the people are real      to us there, the food hot, the tater-tots crispy, there’s always a pie or cake homemade from some woman in town.      A middle-aged man…

Book Excerpt: Kingfisher Days

Each Page a Ghost

Shadow But where to file this memory? Umbrellas of milkweed fluff poppinsing backlit over cars, the low sun’s Regency glow on domestic brick but on cars’ metal blinding. A vagrant…

Week Links

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

…Stanford Medicine, in an article called “The Healing Hand: Putting the Physical Back in the Physical Exam.” In the July 10 issue of The Wall Street Journal he lists his…

Detour in Tennessee

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

…till he can “climb out of the caverns / into the six o’clock evening sun” and buy a six pack. Read the poem, and hear Hahn read it aloud, here….

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