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Books
In the new collection, An Angle of Vision, edited by Lorraine Lopez, women writers speak across the boundaries of class
By Maria Browning
Published: January 14, 2010
The 18 contributors to An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots are a multicultural group: black, white, Native American, Asian, Latina, lesbian,...
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Art
Warren Greene's deceptively simple paintings reward patient attention
By Maria Browning
Published: November 19, 2009
Be prepared to take your time when visiting Dermabrasion, an exhibit of paintings by Austin Peay State University assistant art professor Warren Greene at the school's Trahern...
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Cover Story
In his new novel, Madison Smartt Bell tackles the Confederacy's most controversial son, Nathan Bedford Forrest
By Maria Browning
Published: November 5, 2009
Recent arrivals to Nashville may only know Nathan Bedford Forrest as the subject of a tacky monument that helps clutter the view as they drive south on I-65. But for many...
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Our Critics Picks
Dermabrasion at APSU
Visual Mystery
By Maria Browning
Published: November 5, 2009
Don’t let the title of the show fool you. Greene’s paintings don’t embrace the aggressively ugly, let’s-see-if-we-can-make-the-viewer-wince aesthetic that...
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Phillis Levin and Kate Gleason Signing and Reading at APSU
Poetry Doubleheader
By Maria Browning
Published: October 29, 2009
Kate Gleason’s Measuring the Dark is the winner of the 2008 First Book Award for Poetry sponsored by Austin Peay’s Zone 3 Press. Phillis Levin, who served as judge...
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Features
Fall Guide: Books: The Southern Festival of Books, new work by Alice Randall, Madison Smartt Bell and others jumpstarts the literary fall
Maria Browning
Published: September 17, 2009
OCT. 9-11, WAR MEMORIAL PLAZAIn spite of alarming reversals in the publishing business and the uncertain effect of new technology on the behavior of bibliophiles, the Southern...
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Our Critics Picks
Nicholas Sparks at Davis-Kidd
More Love and Tears
By Maria Browning
Published: September 10, 2009
Nicholas Sparks’ novels are the literary equivalent of McDonald’s fries: reliable, bland and widely loved. Sparks—a devout Catholic who eschews profanity and...
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Author Talk With Andrea Wulf at the Downtown Library
Master the Art of Garden History
By Maria Browning
Published: June 4, 2009
The term "English garden" conjures an image of colorful, varied plants, carefully arranged to mimic a natural landscape, yet often with a hint of eccentricity. English...
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The Jimmie Rodgers Legacy at the Country Music Hall of Fame
Story and Song
By Maria Browning
Published: April 30, 2009
Yodeling, Depression-era bluesman Jimmie Rodgers has long been regarded as the father of country music, but in Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero...
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Ann B. Ross at Davis-Kidd
By Maria Browning
Published: April 23, 2009
Miss Julia Delivers the Goods is Ross' tenth novel featuring Julia Springer Murdoch, a feisty woman of a certain age whose devotion to propriety is continually disrupted by...
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Adina Hoffman at Vanderbilt
By Maria Browning
Published: March 26, 2009
In My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, Hoffman surveys the life of Taha Muhammad Ali, a self-educated Palestinian writer...
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Janis Ian at Davis-Kidd
By Maria Browning
Published: March 5, 2009
Her anthems of teen angst made Janis Ian famous, but the melodrama of "Society's Child" and "At Seventeen" pales in comparison to her own turbulent life. Born to socialist...
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Temple Grandin Signing and Discussion at Davis-Kidd
By Maria Browning
Published: February 26, 2009
It's hard to imagine a more unlikely celebrity than an autistic woman who designs slaughterhouses, but Grandin is unquestionably a star. Her innovations in livestock handling...
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Temple Grandin Appearance at Future Horizons Conference on Aspergers and Autism
By Maria Browning
Published: February 26, 2009
It's hard to imagine a more unlikely celebrity than an autistic woman who designs slaughterhouses, but Grandin is unquestionably a star. Her innovations in livestock handling...
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Clay Risen Signing and Discussion at Davis-Kidd
By Maria Browning
Published: January 22, 2009
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, intense rioting broke out in cities across the United States. Yet despite the scope of the violence--in which a...
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Books
Tig Hague's Tomorrow You Go Home is a harrowing tale of life in a Russian gulag
By Maria Browning
Published: December 25, 2008
There's a kind of arrogance that sometimes goes hand in hand with innocence—an unworldly certainty that good intentions will always be taken into account, that the hard...
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Michael Sims Signing and Discussion at Davis-Kidd
It's Human Nature
By Maria Browning
Published: December 11, 2008
A Tennessee native and former Nashville resident, Sims' true home is the literary terrain where art and science meet. He brings poetic insight and lively prose to his...
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Books
In Tycoon's War, Stephen Dando-Collins chronicles a brutal American conflict
By Maria Browning
Published: December 11, 2008
William Walker, Nashville's native son, might well have become the emperor of Central America in the years prior to the Civil War if he had not made a critical mistake: Pissing...
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Books
Sarah Vowell Discovers the Real Legacy of the Puritans in The Wordy Shipmates
By Maria Browning
Published: November 27, 2008
The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead Books, 272 pp., $25.95), Sarah Vowell's latest wisecracking stroll through American history, has been released just in time for Thanksgiving....
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Art
Microsopic landscapes and extraterrestrialgardens
Nature and technology mix it up in Cheekwood show
By Maria Browning
Published: October 30, 2008
In light of anthropogenic ills such as ozone depletion, global warming and toxic pollution even in Antarctica, it's worth asking whether there's still such a thing as "nature"...
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