Leigh Ann Gardner documents Tennessee’s African American lodges and cemeteries
In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, African American communities all over the country established fraternal and benevolent organizations. Some, such as the Prince Hall Masons, paralleled white organizations…
Capturing the Drive-By Truckers on the page
…order to fully understand their music, it helps to consider it in geographic and cultural terms, each song depicting another acre of their Dirty South. This travelogue approach also allows…
Playwright and poet Dan O’Brien searches for meaning in the chaos of trauma
…of living and working in an era of global upheaval, as O’Brien explores the complex intersection of life and art. O’Brien answered questions from Chapter 16 via email. Chapter 16:…
Rob Nixon discusses writers, activists, and the challenges of the Global South
…Agent Orange. Slow violence is pertinent to environmental justice because the incremental unfolding of threats to human and environmental health is experienced unequally by wealthy and impoverished communities. Time can…
Bradley Sides’ debut collection delivers sincerely strange stories
…mythical creatures abound, as human characters struggle to understand the unknown and, often, each other. In multiple stories, young believers try to convince fearful authority figures to embrace the supernatural.…
Ed Tarkington talks about the class conflicts at the heart of his second novel, The Fortunate Ones
…reveals to us what we already know but were unable to articulate for ourselves. Hence, it doesn’t have to be real to be true; it just needs to feel real.…
