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A March to the Mountaintop

…that seek to be found. Sarah Carter is a high-school English teacher living and working in Lebanon, Tennessee. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the Sewanee School of Letters….

Back to West Texas

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on April 21, 2020. *** Your summer vacation dream involved the ocean, a beach chair, and a book. And, well, now…

Deep Loss and Deep Joy

“My life is small and simple, but it’s a better one than I ever thought I’d have,” explains Cash Pruitt, protagonist of Jeff Zentner’s fourth novel, In the Wild Light….

From Fur Traders to Chart Toppers

Vanessa Olivarez If you’ve lived in Nashville for any time, it’s likely that you’ve heard one of its fur-trading founders lived in a cave. You’ve read that Kris Kristofferson used…

Traitor to Whom?

In Traitor, Franklin writer Amanda McCrina’s latest young adult novel, a young man struggles to uphold his family’s beliefs as he fights for his life. This World War II-era tale,…

A Taste of Tennessee’s History

In 2010, songwriter Lynne Drysdale Patterson saw an unexpectedly life-changing film — not a blockbuster or a heartwarming biopic, but a video to promote tourism called Discover Tennessee Trails and…

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