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May 20th

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Reunion by Alan Lightman →

A reunion is a coming together, a reuniting of like minds that have shared like experiences. At the core of REUNION (2003, Pantheon Books) by Memphis’s own Alan Lightman, however, is detachment. In the opening scene, Charles, a small-college professor, is lying post-coitus with a woman and wishing he was someplace else. “I fly above mountains, dizzy, frightened,” Lightman writes....

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Apr 9th

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“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon...”

– -Dylan Thomas “In My Craft or Sullen Art”

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Mar 31st

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James Conaway's NOSE: a review →

Way back in 1993, James Conaway published his memoir MEMPHIS AFTERNOONS. Not long after that, he came to Memphis for what was then the River City Writers series of lectures at the University of Memphis. I went to a reading and signing of the book, and we later met for drinks at Old Zinnie’s in Midtown. I was writing then, though I never would have said of myself, “I’m a...

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Mar 15th

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History lesson for kids to include what Klan does... →

From my current “Because I Said So” column: It’s been all over the news lately that at the end of this month the Ku Klux Klan plans to march on Memphis. Like any good civic organization staging a rally, or a circus, they’ve applied for and received a permit from the city. And they have presumably tidied themselves up with Tide and some Snuggle fabric softener. It’s always important...

Mar 15th

“LONG GONE DADDIES (John F. Blair, Publisher, 2013) is a book about the road and...”

– From Urf! (via longgonedaddies)

Mar 14th

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