October 21, 2011 The word “Latino” is a catch-all term, “an imaginary space for filing diverse people in a singular slot.” In The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, a new essay collection edited by Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López, twenty-one writers examine the multifaceted nature of Latino identity and the way it shapes their work. Falconer will read from his work on October 24 at 7 p.m. at the Hodges Library on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.

October 17, 2011 In his 1882 memoir, Company Aytch, Sam R. Watkins, a private in the Army of Tennessee, explained what it was like at a whole series of Civil War battles—Shiloh, Stones River, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, and Nashville, among many others—doing his duty as the musket balls and artillery shells whizzed by him. Now this classic is being rereleased by Turner Publishing in Nashville with an introduction by Franklin historical novelist Robert Hicks. This edition, revised according to Watkins’s notes from the 1890s, includes many corrections and additions and should be considered the definitive text of the book.