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A Special Alchemy
There is a special alchemy that starts with a heavy pot being placed on the stove. Oil, onions, and garlic lay the foundation, and from that humble opening, an entire world will be opened. The soup pot becomes a portal to a universe of flavor. Nashville poet Major Jackson…
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Grief Song
Cloud Runner by Joy Harjo reminds us that while the only devastating constant in life is grief, poetry and its music can do some of the heavy carrying. In her 12th poetry collection, written in the wake of her daughter Rainy Dawn Ortiz’s 2023 death, the three-term U.S. Poet…
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Falling in Love in the Middle of Hell
In Nashville author Sharon Cameron’s new novel, Up from the Ashes, the year is 1943 and the place is an extermination camp in Poland. Selma and Chaim’s unforgettable story demonstrates the human capacity for withstanding extreme suffering and responding with strength and…
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A 1970s Love Story
Jeff Zentner’s new novel Love, Like Apples, transports us to 1970s New York City, where Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, George Lucas’ Star Wars, and Jim Henson’s Muppets are among the influences in the air. It’s a tale told by a onetime puppeteer named Tiller Loomis, who grew…
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Vanleer Ghost
If I hadn’t been reading Nancy Drew that day, we probably wouldn’t have gone to the haunted house. It was August and I was 11 and we were sitting on the long planked front porch at Uncle Walter and Aunt Carrie’s house, around the corner from the Charlotte courthouse square on…
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The Bug-Eyed Lady
We’d all heard the rumors. Of a white van. And its frightening pilot: a woman whose giant eyes stood on the edges of their sockets, threatening to jump. The Bug-Eyed Lady. The name spread like head lice through my elementary school, as did her alleged crimes. She’d gleefully run…
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Overwhelmed
In Erin Miller Reid’s But for Fortune, we meet Corinth Eaton, who appears to be a thriving young woman. She’s doing well in medical school and is in a happy relationship with a man she wants to marry. Corinth is on the verge of having everything she’s ever wanted. Except she’s…
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Escaping into Life
It was sleeting in Knoxville when Linda Gambill decided to leave Tennessee. She was 24, smoking marijuana every night, stuck in an unfulfilling job and an unhappy relationship with a former professor. Her friends were getting married or moving away. Gambill wanted something…
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My First Encounter with Fanfiction
My breath hitched as I clicked the PDF file open on my reading tablet, revealing the 1,000+-page manuscript. It was Manacled by SenLinYu, a fanfiction based on the popular Harry Potter series, set right after the Battle at Hogwarts, if Voldemort had won. As a child, I grew up…
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‘Walk with Me a Ways’
“Amos turned briefly. ‘Just walk with me a ways,’ he said,” writes Silas House in his new novel, The Tulip Poplars. “Many years later, when Tom lay dying, this phrase would be the last thing he replayed in his mind. … Yet in this moment he did not know this was the beginning of…
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The Next Mozart
Yiyun Li’s ambitious new novel Music Against the Night tells the stories of two 19th-century musicians, famous in their lifetimes, who have been largely forgotten. The Irish pianist and composer John Field, inventor of nocturnes, has become a “footnote” in the biography of…
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Fire and Fate
A young Alabama farm boy named Charlie is about to lose his beloved grandfather, Clarence. In the throes of his illness, the older man is unable to finish a familiar family story he’s always loved to tell. At this wrenching moment, Charlie assures Clarence, “I’ll finish telling…
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