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Remembrances of Knoxville Past

…Mrs. Armstrong’s handwriting is quite unique and all over the place; there were many pages where she had marked through words, or even whole sections, and written changes in between

L.A. Roots

album-shaped. Just looking at the cover puts a song in your head. Maybe it’s something off the Byrds’ 1968 landmark album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the so-called “Big Bang for…

Meeting the Blues

…Volkswagen bug, with their reel-to-reel tape recorder, camera, typewriter, musical instruments, serious minds, and naïve notions about what awaited them. David Evans Nearly 60 years later, their encounters and observations…

Out of the Shadows of History

cabin full of children to care for, nursing a newborn, living on acres that aren’t our own, and you traipsing off to fight a war. I’ll spend months not knowing…

The First Novel

…richly woven, character-driven narratives. Does this book even qualify as autofiction? Frankly, the writing is so captivating it doesn’t matter. Fact or fiction, a great story is a great story….

The Displaced

…Benefit Street portrays a vast number of characters driven out of an unnamed capital of an unnamed country. These are wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, children, grandmothers, neighbors and…

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