A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

The Novelist and the Nun

…subject of Patchett’s new essay in the British journal Granta. The piece is not available online, but Granta assistant editor Patrick Ryan describes it as “a moving essay … about…

Writers in the Red

…Red Cross organization, as well as the Nashville chapter, where Tucker has been a longtime volunteer. The actual writers for the Red Cross include a massive cross-section of the national

Memphis in LA

February 22, 2011 For several years novelist Richard Bausch and science writer Rebecca Skloot were colleagues at the University of Memphis (though Skloot recently left the program to move to…

Unanointed, Unannealed

…who died of complications from alcoholism shortly after the completion of William Eggleston in the Real World, a documentary by Michael Almereyda, who is also the editor of For Now….

Beautiful Boy

…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

…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…

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