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Fearless and Exacting
The new Sewanee Review will appear the end of this month, and "new" hardly begins to describe it
By Brooks Egerton | January 23, 2017
Novelist Adam Ross, the first new editor of The Sewanee Review since 1973, will launch the storied literary magazine's redesign on January 31. In it, there's enough transgression to satisfy the spirit of Tennessee Williams, whose bequest supports the Review's publication.
Clear-Eyed Mystic
Joy Harjo's poems celebrate transcendence and confront fear
By Maria Browning | January 18, 2017
Acclaimed poet Joy Harjo's most recent collection, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, delivers the exquisite mix of beauty, transcendence, and pain her work is known for. Harjo joined the creative-writing faculty at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville this year and will give a free public reading at UT's Hodges Library on January 23 at 7 p.m.
One Big Story
Alan Lightman talks about his Memphis memoir, Screening Room
By Stephen Usery | January 6, 2017
In Screening Room, Alan Lightman—poet, novelist, and playwright—tells the story of his growing-up years in Memphis during the 1950s and '60s. The book centers on the family legacy of Lightman's grandfather, a movie-palace magnate, but it is also wholly the story of Lightman himself as he struggles to understand his own place as a white, Jewish man in the segregated South.
Pulling the Curtain Back on Literary Wizardry
The burgeoning field of Cormac McCarthy scholarship offers surprising insights
By Ed Tarkington | January 5, 2017
To writers and scholars who have followed his career for decades, Cormac McCarthy is as notorious for his perceived reclusiveness as for his astonishing body of work. With Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution, Daniel Robert King takes a deep dive into the McCarthy Archive at Texas State University and emerges with a lucid account of McCarthy's transition from Tennessee to the Southwest.
Crime Capital of the World
Book excerpt: City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and The First Police Chief of Paris
By Holly Tucker | December 14, 2016
Holly Tucker's most recent nonfiction title, Blood Work, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. The Nashville author's new work of nonfiction, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris, will be released on March 21. Today we bring you the book's opening pages.
A Super-Man
Book excerpt: Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
By Michael Sims | December 12, 2016
Michael Sims's new book of nonfiction, Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes, will be released on January 24, 2017. Today Chapter 16 readers have a sneak peek at the first chapter.
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When Hate Groups March Down Main Street
By Deborah Levine and Marc Brenman
"When Hate Groups March Down Main Street is a comprehensive, authoritative resource guide for communities, organizations, and individuals who are concerned and intimidated by the resurgence of neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing groups in the United States."
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