Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Beautiful Boy

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

…wrote Granju on her blog after viewing the special at the station last week. “While it was almost unbearably painful to watch, I also left the station last night knowing…

Fantine's Folly

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

…Creole descent and California birth, is an accomplished travel writer, but in this book she undertakes a journey unlike any she has experienced before—one that stands to alter her path…

"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

…Plateau, the sky white, and Hollywood’s best snowflakes lazily parachuting to the white page of ground. I don’t recall unwrapping the microscope. But I remember my squeal, well no, I…

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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