StoryBoard debuts the Yellow Chair ChronEchols By Candace Echols Sometimes, news images have the odd effect of making me feel young and old at the…
Read More Turning down the noise and slowing down time in search of something called wisdomCategory: Literature
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This Is How I Saved Myself
Tina Turner shares her spiritual practice of 50 years By Tina Chambers, for Chapter16.org In Tina Turner’s new book, Happiness Becomes You, she advises readers to ask…
Read More This Is How I Saved MyselfMaDear’s Scrapbook
A granddaughter discovers an unexpected legacy of memories, questions, and untold stories By Lori D. Johnson for Chapter16.org For years, I thought I was the…
Read More MaDear’s ScrapbookIn Memoriam, 2020
This retired school teacher reflects on a year of loss, and lessons By Mark Scott It has been a very long and traumatic year. Like…
Read More In Memoriam, 2020Robert Gordon: Memphis Calling
Robert Gordon revisits his rollicking tale of a revolutionary musical city By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org The title told it all, like some sci-fi…
Read More Robert Gordon: Memphis CallingA Great Southern Voice
Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works By Susannah Felts for Chapter16.org Rick Bragg is one of the great Southern voices of…
Read More A Great Southern Voice“The saddest case I’ve ever run across” – Imprisoned since 2012, Pamela Green found a reason to live
… there was something about the man’s posture or the way he stood between Pamela and the door that triggered the young woman’s paranoia… A…
Read More “The saddest case I’ve ever run across” – Imprisoned since 2012, Pamela Green found a reason to liveThe Problem with Policing
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…
Read More The Problem with PolicingRoaming 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…
Read More Roaming Internal LandscapesPutting 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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