Poets offer their perspectives on the global pandemic in Together in a Sudden Strangeness
…convey an altered sense of time passing, a suspension from normality best described by Eliza Griswold: “Every honest answer / is Not Yet.” Still others reveal surprising desires or habits…
Robert Gordon revisits his rollicking tale of a revolutionary musical city
…A Sputnik? Gordon: The revolutions you cite, none of them had any planning. You couldn’t go to Sun at any point and say, Oh yeah, I see what you’re doing,…
White supremacists infiltrate an East Tennessee town in Charles Dodd White’s How Fire Runs
…While their own authority on the commission comes into question, they must find a way to prevent their local government from any act, however small, that would lend legitimacy to…
Memphis Mayhem is an insider’s history of the city’s sound
…many luxury hotels, we had a lobby bar with a grand piano. I would sometimes receive a telephone call late at night from hotel security. “Sorry to bother you so…
In David James Poissant’s Lake Life, a family’s farewell to their summer home leads to traumatic reckoning
…Central Florida, demonstrates his artistic impartiality by giving Michael the best lines in this dialogue, including the climactic zinger. “I may be a deplorable, but so are you. All of…
Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural pays unique tribute to Dolly Parton
Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural—part biography, part memoir, part love letter—arrives at a fascinating time in the evolving cultural persona of Dolly Parton. Last fall, the podcast series…
