In Occupied Territory, Simon Balto digs at the roots of the current turmoil over race and policing By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org Every year, the Benjamin…
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Roaming Internal Landscapes
M. Randal O’Wain’s stories limn the South’s inequities and anguished history By Hamilton Cain for Chapter16.org From Faulkner to O’Connor to Broom, the dispossessed have…
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Putting the Music First
Memphis Mayhem is an insider’s history of the city’s sound By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org Ah, Memphis, the Southern capital of sin and song —…
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Love Letter to the Dollyverse
Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural pays unique tribute to Dolly Parton By Emily Choate, for Chapter16.org Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural—part biography, part memoir,…
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Home, Happiness, and Hurt
Writers of color consider what it means to belong in the South By Kashif Andrew Graham for Chapter16.org A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of…
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Same War, Same General
Connor Towne O’Neill grapples with America’s legacy of white supremacy By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org In 2015, journalist Connor Towne O’Neill was on a reporting…
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What We’ll Miss and What We’ll Share
The meaning of the Southern Festival of Books in a season of loss By Steve Haruch for Chapter16.org The other day I was texting with…
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The Past Is Never Dead
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community By Tina Chambers for Chapter16.org In his engaging memoir, In Faulkner’s…
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Queen’s Rules
Late R&B legend Denise LaSalle always called her own shots By Jacqueline Zeisloft, for Chapter16.org In her posthumous memoir, Always the Queen, the fiercely unapologetic Denise…
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More than a Dream
Jon Meacham delivers a rich account of a life built on protest and hope By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org Just over a month after…
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