Chapter 16 - Part 8

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Blas Falconer reads from his latest book in a podcast on the Poetry Foundation’s website

By Tristan Hickey | June 27, 2011

June 27, 2011 Puerto Rico’s first murder. The Battle of Nashville. A dress blooming in the ocean. These are the images Nashville poet Blas Falconer offers listeners during a 2008 reading at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the program Falconer reads from his latest book, A Question of Gravity and Light (Arizona University Press, 2007).

Sex and Gasoline and Brilliant Prose

Rodney Crowell’s memoir has the critics singing his praises

By Tristan Hickey | June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011 People know him from songs like “Sex and Gasoline,” “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight,” and “I Ain’t Living Long Like This,” but singer-songwriter and Nashvillian Rodney Crowell also tested the literary waters this year with his memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks, and the reviews have been spectacular.

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

By Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls
Routledge
340 pages
$180

The book “explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book.”

~the publisher