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Music Feature on Kate and Anna McGarrigle

For my beloved Peauxdunque Review, I write a recurring a music feature. I’m happy now to share this piece, newly online, which let me take a deep dive into Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s largely forgotten 1978 album, Pronto Monto. My … Continue reading

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Review of New Memoir by Charles Dodd White

I was so excited to write about Knoxville writer Charles Dodd White’s new memoir-in-essays, A Year Without Months. Given its powerful and honest insights into subjects that are vitally relevant to so many of us, I hope that this work … Continue reading

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Review of New Ocean Vuong Collection

I’m so pleased to share my latest review for Chapter 16. Poet Ocean Vuong seems to specialize in evoking multi-sensory dreamscapes of memory, and his new collection, Time Is A Mother, delivers them nonstop. You can read my review here. … Continue reading

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Review of New Poetry from Bobby C. Rogers

I’m pleased to share my latest piece for Chapter 16, reviewing Shift Work, a nuanced and skillful new collection from West Tennessee poet Bobby C. Rogers. Out from LSU Press. Until now, I’d never read poems that more perfectly capture … Continue reading

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Review of Trouble the Waters

I’m so pleased that I had the chance to review Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue—an adventurous new anthology of speculative fiction about our world’s bodies of water and our myriad relationships to them. It’s a fascinating book, … Continue reading

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New Fiction up at storySouth

I’m thrilled to share that a piece of my short fiction, “Field School,” appears in the new issue of storySouth! I’ve read this journal for a long time, so seeing my gal in their “pages” is a special pleasure. For … Continue reading

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Review of New Louise Erdrich Novel

Every time I review a Louise Erdrich book, I learn something new about what gifts novels can give us, how they can expand and concentrate our understanding. Today, my review of Erdrich’s new novel, The Sentence, is up at Chapter … Continue reading

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New Feature on Environmental Writing in TN

I’ve written for Chapter 16 for a long time, but I’ve have never had the chance to write a piece like this. Here, in “Among the Pollinators,” I wanted to discover how TN writers are engaging with our environment, particularly … Continue reading

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Review of New Richard Powers Novel

I’m so glad I had the chance to review the new Richard Powers’ novel, Bewilderment, out tomorrow from W.W. Norton. Thank you, Chapter 16! From my review (read it here): “Though Bewilderment is intergalactic in scale, the heart of this … Continue reading

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Review of New Maggie Shipstead Novel

I was so grateful to review Maggie Shipstead’s new book, Great Circle, for Chapter 16. I love this expansive, adventurous novel, and I hope it finds oceans of readers. My review’s up at Chapter 16 today.

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