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Nashville novelist revisits her past in essay collection

In the 22 essays collected in “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage,” the novelist Ann Patchett writes about her romantic history; her family, friends and her dog Rose; her work and her Nashville...

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Young-adult author seeks to balance love, darkness

The young-adult author Laurie Halse Anderson, who confronts such charged topics as date rape, addiction and eating disorders in her novels, says she makes a point of answering all the correspondence...

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—Spread the Word: Scientist and author Alan Lightman speaks at Rhodes

Scientist and author Alan Lightman will speak at Rhodes College.

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Alan Lightman in Memphis to talk about 'Accidental Universe'

Dr. Alan Lightman, the physicist and writer, will present “Science and Religion,” a free lecture, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the McCallum Ballroom of the Bryan Campus Life Center on the Rhodes College...

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'The Kept' author appears at Crosstown Arts

Author James Scott will read from and sign his debut novel "The Kept" Thursday at Crosstown Arts on North Cleveland.

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March that re-fueled civil rights spawned division

“The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel,” wrote the historian David Cohn in 1935 — a statement which explains why, three decades later, James Meredith began his “March Against...

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Before the deluge: Amy Greene's new novel puts a family's farm in the path of...

The novelist Amy Greene remembers her first sight as a child of the ghostly tops of silos submerged in the Cherokee Reservoir near her home in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee.

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New boxed set compiles John Updike's stories

Many people must exist for whom the loss of a book or two each year from John Updike, who died at age 76 in 2009, registers as a black hole in their lives. More prolific than, say, John Cheever and...

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Memphis Library's Bookstock features Eric Jerome Dickey

Eric Jerome Dickey, whose thrillers often feature an amorous adventuress as narrator, returns to his hometown Saturday to deliver the keynote address at the Memphis Public Library’s Bookstock 2014.

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Reader with 'everyman's voice' visits Hernando

An Audie Award-winning reader is coming to a library near you. George Guidall, one of AudioFile’s long-standing “Golden Voices,” who has performed 1,160 audio books in his career as a recorded...

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Michael Pollan comes to Crosstown Arts Tuesday on tour with 'Cooked'

Meet the author: Michael Pollan

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'Undefeated' Manassas coach will sign new book about values

“Civility” is a word Bill Courtney uses a lot, in conversation, at speaking engagements, in his new book “Against the Grain.”

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Good girl, bad girl: Writers grapple with foibles of 'Southern Sin'

“Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly” is a collection of essays about blowing it, betraying loved ones, sleeping with the wrong people, breaking the law and, most...

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Famed poet Nikki Giovanni to speak at Civil Rights Museum

Internationally acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, who received the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry and the first Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, will speak at 2 p.m. Sunday at the National Civil...

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Book review: The meandering history of the U.S. citizen's right to bear arms

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms” has been enshrined in the Second Amendment to the Constitution since 1792.

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A Memphis audience recites poetry with Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni read her poem “Ego-tripping” to a rapt audience at the National Civil Rights Museum Sunday, but she didn’t speak alone. Some among the SRO crowd in the 350-seat auditorium murmured along...

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