MIHAELA MOSCALIUC
Cemetery Ink
MARGARET RENKL
Graceland, At Last
MARY GAUTHIER
Saved by a Song
KYLE BEACHY
The Most Fun Thing
JUSTIN QUARRY
”The All of ‘y’all’” at Salon.
KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE
The Five Wounds
JAIMEE HARRIS
The Congress House Sessions
GAYL JONES
Per The Atlantic, a new novel. (Note: this is the only work on my devotional/Rec page by someone with whom I have not crossed paths. But I mean, it’s Gayl Jones!!!)
MARY MILLER
“UFO” at Southwest Review.
CAROLINE RANDALL-WILLIAMS
“You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument” at New York Times.
DOREEN OLIVER
“The Cold of Winter” at Kenyon Review.
JAMES G. THOMAS
“The Lebanese in Mississippi: An Oral History.”
TTT / Shabazz Palaces
“The Mushroom” by TTT (see below) included in LP package for The Don of Diamond Dreams.
THE PIG READS MOBY DICK (CHRIS BOWER)
“Chapter 16: The Ship.”
ALICE RANDALL
“The Gritty South” at Oxford American.
KATE MEDLEY
“Gas Station South” at Southern Cultures.
RAMIRO HINOJOSA
“The Last Awakening” at Southwest Review.
RANDALL KENAN
“Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical ‘Hamilton'” at Southern Cultures.
KATY SIMPSON SMITH
The Everlasting. Rome / 2,000 years.
CIONA ROUSE
“Enchanted” at Oxford American.
ELLIOT ACKERMAN
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
CHANELLE BENZ
The Gone Dead, MS Lit.
MARK BARR
TVA made lit in Watershed.
AMANDA LITTLE
The Fate of Food is global and get-able, on edibility. Here: on NPR/Fresh Air.
CHRISTIAN KIEFER
Phantoms is here. Get. Read. Listen, even.
CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMS
Lucy Negro: Redux, as book, as ballet.
CARLYLE WOLFE
Paint. Steel. Lead. Paper. Pattern. Form. Nature.
KATE DANIELS
Two New Books: Three Syllables Describing Addiction and In the Months of My Son’s Recovery. Here, an excerpt from Five Points.
MIHAELA MOSCALIUC
Self as Goat in Tree at Academy of American Poets. On Immigrant Model, and then some.
CALEB JOHNSON
On Treeborne w/the Chicago Review of Books.
KEVIN POWERS
A Shout in the Ruins. Do shout, now.
TED OWNBY
Hurtin’ Words. Good work.
MARY GAUTHIER
UPDATE “Bullet Holes in the Sky” from Rifles and Rosary Beads.
Her songs. Also: Songwriting With Soldiers. Also: Live with WXNA.
CHRIS BOWER
Update: a new play, Cafe Neckbeard… and Cafe Neckbeard listening menu.
Little Boy Needs Ride. (Also: My Very End of the Universe, an anthology incl. novellas by Chris and Margaret Patton Chapman).
LEE CONELL
Subcortical (book), including Subcortical (story).
HELEN BENEDICT
Wolf Season is here. In dialog with Sand Queen, and related, benchmark journalism.
STEPHEN HENDEE
Low-poly aesthetic installation/sculpture. Narrative double-click: The Ice Next Time
DOREEN OLIVER
Everything Is Fine Until It’s Not
STEPHANIE SNIDER
Drawings/Paintings/Sculpture…Architecture/Memory/Culture.
BARBARA WEISSBERGER
Photo / Collage / Portals / Process / Play
MICHAEL KNIGHT
Eveningland (c/o Rick Bass in the NYT)
MARGARET RENKL/CHAPTER 16
On Tennessee Lit / Federal Funding. On teaching refugees/immigrants in Nashville.
KELLY LUCE
Pull Me Under is here. And here. And here
THOMAS THE TWIN (TTT)
You Know A Secret. No url. No website. Just a 700+ page universe, crafted for a decade, mailed to me.
SARA LEVINE
Stories: “The Cut” and “Slower”, and even more SL.
ED TARKINGTON
Only Love Can Break Your Heart.
END OF ALL MUSIC
The Oxford, Miss., record shop tops Amanda Petrusich’s list at USA Today.
BRAD WATSON
Miss Jane is that book.
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
Perfume River is here.
ANTONIO RUIZ-CAMACHO
Barefoot Dogs.
AMY MARTIN’S BACKYARD OPRY
Self explanatory
CHRISTIAN KIEFER
The Animals.
RUMBA SHAKER
new album from Dante et al.
SQUARE BOOKS
Speaks Out. Speaks Clear. (Also: a knockout punch c/o store co-founder Lisa Howorth’s Flying Shoes.)
JESSE GOOLSBY
I’d Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them.
ROBERT REA
on Harper Lee/Monroeville, Alabama.
JULIA LICHTBLAU
new story, “Petrouchka,” at Blackbird.
BILL CLEGG
Did You Ever Have A Family. Also: on book things.
PIERO DE MASI
Santiago.
JACOB RUBIN
The Poser.
MONICA McFAWN
Bright Shards of Someplace Else.
ACE ATKINS
The Innocents, and a squad of novels from Mississippi’s prime crime master.
MICHAEL BIBLE
Sophia.
ALEX TAYLOR
The Marble Orchard.
IOWA REVIEW / SHARLET AWARD FOR VETERANS
Iowa Review.
CALEB LUDWICK
The First Time She Fell.
GREG BROWNDERVILLE / BART WEISS
Fire Bones
FAULKNER HOUSE BOOKS
c/o Very Local, New Orleans
SHEBA KARIM
The Marvelous Mizra Girls
BEN GLOVER
Sweet Wild Lily
SARAHMAY WILKINSON
Book Cover Design (e.g., Some Go Home!)
THE BITTER TEARS
Jam Tarts in the Jakehouse
RANDALL KENAN
“Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” from If I Had Two Wings
M.O. WALSH
On Brad Watson (In memoriam. Dammit.)
LEE CONELL
The Party Upstairs.
KELLY LUCE
c/o LIC Reading Series
ELLIOT ACKERMAN
Red Dress in Black and White.
OLIVIA CRONK
Womonster.
LEESA CROSS-SMITH
So We Can Glow, stories & playlist.
TN WOODWORKS/DESIGN
from Alex Jaynes and Alan Daigre.
CARTER SICKELS
The Prettiest Star.
CHRISTINA STODDARD
“Shear” at Tin House.
L. KASIMU HARRIS
“A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars at The New York Times.
LEE DURKEE
The Last Taxi Driver, a novel.
SUSANNAH FELTS
“A Yellow Thread, or On Obsession” at Vol. 1 Brooklyn
CALEB JOHNSON
On Larry Brown, at LitHub.
CHRIS BOWER
Celery Menu / The Pig Reads Moby Dick
MARY MILLER
A man and a dog in Biloxi. Acclaimed by NPR, USAToday, umpteen booksellers, and this guy.
MARGARET RENKL
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss from New York Times contributor and essayist (and champion of Tennessee lit).
OWEN LEWIS
Best Man. An elegy, on addiction.
TONY EARLY
“Backpack” / New Yorker.
RAM HINOJOSA
new story, Field Manual, at WLA. In Huizache Magazine (alongside Dagoberto Gilb, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto…)
CIONA ROUSE
VANTABLACK
JUSTIN QUARRY
Coming Out As Working Class at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. The Handgun and the Haunted Range, at Longreads. Must reads.
DAVID KEEFE
Printmaking / Papermaking. Frontline Arts.
SHEBA KARIM
Update: On desi Lit (c/o Electric Lit). Miriam Sharma Hits the Road joins… That Thing We Call A Heart, which joins her books, essays, anthologies
MICHAEL WATERS
The Dean of Discipline
KAREN LEONA ANDERSON
Receipt.
THE MISSISSIPPI ENCYCLOPEDIA
700 contributors, 15 years in process, 1,600 pages, 8.8 pounds…
and a Best Of from Smithsonian Magazine.
HILLARY JORDAN
Mudbound novel / Mudbound film.
TIANA CLARK
UPDATE: Nashville, from the New Yorker.
Equilibrium. An example, and another.
MATTHEW LANSBURGH
from Outside is the Ocean, the 2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award winner.
ARGENTA READING SERIES
Little Rock Lit, c/o Guy Choate.
PIYALI BHATTACHARYA
Good Girls Marry Doctors… and other great work.
CHARIS BOOKS
The Nation’s Oldest, Independent Feminist Bookstore turns 43…and expands.
KATY SIMPSON SMITH
Horse Experience, via Catapult. Also, books.
JILL BIALOSKY
Poetry Will Save Your Life
ADA CALHOUN
St. Marks Is Dead / Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
What in the Natural World
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS
VCCA-NEA partnership/residency for veterans. Thanks, y’all.
HEDIEH ILCHI
Western Abstraction / Persian Art
JOHN PIPKIN
Is cycling from Warsaw to Paris, then writing. Also: his books.
CHRISTINE EVANS
War Plays. Also: Closer Than They Appear at The Performance Factory.
KATY DIDDEN
The Glacier’s Wake. Also: lava erasures.
RIVERVIEWS ARTSPACE
Multidisciplinary hive, Lynchburg.
TOBIAS CARROLL
Reel / Transitory.
WLA FOLIO 2017: PEACE
New offshoot of War, Literature, and the Arts. Feat. work by Roxana Robinson, Benjamin Busch, Christian Kiefer, more.
ANNE CORBITT
Rules for Lying wins Nilsen Prize for a First Novel.
DAVID ABRAMS
Brave Deeds is on the way. Follow-up to Fobbit.
NASHVILLE LIT
c/o The Porch and East Side Storytellin’.
WERLLAYNE NUNES
Celeste: 1 minute = 3 years of relentless detail/production/near madness. So much more, here.
KYLE BEACHY
The Most Fun Thing (dialog w/his new novel)
SO AND SO
A reading series. A bookstore. At the Nasher Museum, a formidable squad: Joanna Ruocco, Sampson Starkweather, Lauren Hunter.
BILL LOEHFELM
Maureen Caughlin crime binge.
CHRISTINA STODDARD
The Brittingham Prize in Poetry: Hive.
GARRARD CONLEY
Boy Erased. Also, the Anti-HB2 Book Tour.
ALICE RANDALL and CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMS
Soul Food Love. (Also: Lucy Negro, Redux by Caroline Randall Williams.)
PETER MOLIN
Time Now: the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film, and Literature.
KEN MACLEISH
Making War at Fort Hood.
DAVID METCALF
Wooden Wire. Painter. Sculptor. Maestro of wood.
LINDSEY DRAGER
The Sorrow Proper.
JAMES G. THOMAS, Jr.
editor, Conversations with Barry Hannah.
M.O. WALSH
My Sunshine Away. Update: wins 2016 SIBA/Pat Conroy Fiction Prize.