Poets offer their perspectives on the global pandemic in Together in a Sudden Strangeness
…will clarify another, / and dark night will not rob you of / your way, and the sun will not blind you, / or the river drown you, until you…
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
…they relinquish before they can start building themselves anew? Poissant’s title quickly becomes ironic, the images it conjures of lazy, sun-soaked days replaced by scenes of simmering resentment. Lisa knows…
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…
