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Angels in the Outback

Teen Australian author Alexandra Adornetto is poised to take the baton from Twilight’s Stephanie Meyer

By Lacey Galbraith |

September 29, 2010 Vampires, zombies, and now angels: ever since Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight became the twenty-first century’s gold standard by which young adult romances are measured, publishing houses have been trying to hit upon the next soul-mates-and-supernatural YA love story. And thanks to Alexandra Adornetto’s Halo, the angels angle just might stick. Adornetto will read from the novel at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on October 1 at 4 p.m.

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Give Us This Day

In Cornbread Nation 5, the Southern Foodways Alliance serves up some tasty kernels—and a little bit of pone

By Paul V. Griffith |

September 28, 2010 Since 1999, the Southern Foodways Alliance has been spreading the gospel of Southern American cuisine. Under the umbrella of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, the SFA stages symposia, produces documentary films, and, every couple years or so, publishes a collection of essays and poems. The latest of these is Cornbread Nation 5: The Best of Southern Food Writing, edited by aptly named Fred W. Sauceman—author and host of the popular Food with Fred program on Johnson City’s WJHL-TV.

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Close to the Bone

Pulitzer Prize-winner Claudia Emerson talks about writing deeply personal poems

By Maria Browning |

September 27, 2010 Poet Claudia Emerson explored the painful terrain of divorce in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Late Wife. Her newest collection, Figure Studies, looks at the gender “schooling” of young women and its impact on their lives. She answered questions from Chapter 16 by email prior to her public reading on September 27 at 7 pm. at the University of Tennessee Library in Knoxville.

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The Primacy of Plot

Nashville novelist Ann Patchett defends the notion of “story”

By Margaret Renkl |

September 25, 2010 Young novelists “who have yet to learn the hard lesson that there really is no reinventing the wheel” may not understand why storytellers need to have an actual story to tell, but Ann Patchett likes a good plot: “As for me, I’m a great fan of a story,” she writes in today’s Wall Street Journal. “A tale well told can sweep up a reader in a way that dazzling characters, piercing language and startling ideas can’t manage on their own.

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"The Melting"

By Bill Brown |

September 24, 2010 Bill Brown is a part-time lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He has written four poetry collections, three chapbooks, and a textbook. The recipient of many awards and fellowships, Brown lives in the hills of Robertson County with his wife, Suzanne, and a tribe of cats. “The Melting” originally appeared in The Texas Poetry Review.

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Feeding the Hope Machine

Salvatore Scibona, one of The New Yorker‘s new “20 Under 40” writers, talks with Chapter 16

By Sean Kinch |

September 23, 2010 In 2008, Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award—a coup for its author and for its publisher, the tiny, nonprofit Gray Wolf Press. The NBA distinction helped propel sales of the novel, which has become a favorite of book clubs. Scibona’s burgeoning career received another boost in June, when The New Yorker named Scibona to its “20 Under 40” list of young writers who are bringing fresh voices to American fiction. Scibona will read from his work at 7 p.m. on September 23 in Buttrick Hall, Room 102, on the Vanderbilt University campus.

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