From the Shelves: Southern Writers in the Modern World

Eugenia Dorothy “Dolly” Blount Lamar was born in Jones County, Georgia in 1867 and spent most of her life in Macon, where Mercer’s spires stood across…

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The Tennessee Agrarians by Richard M. Weaver

The Tennessee Agrarians

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April 2026

From the Archives: A 1988 Interview with Andrew Lytle

“An Interview with Andrew Lytle”: Interviewed by Warren Smith and Michael Jordan.

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March 2026

Cultural Debris: Genoa, October 2022

The vagrants and tourists don't arrive until eight. I went out at six-thirty. The Piazza del Duomo was empty.

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February 2026

Robert Drake: An Interview

Robert Young Drake Jr. was born in Ripley, Tennessee, in 1930. He grew up among old people, listening.

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Elder's Bookstore, Nashville

State Route 155 carries its stream of cars past storefronts that might be anywhere.

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January 2026

Book-Madness on the Road from Richmond

In October of 1949, Bernard Mannes Baruch walked into the Virginia State Library in Richmond with letters.

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December 2025

Christmas 1779

December 25, 1779.

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November 2025

Economic Problem of the Southeast

The remains of the Dutch-owned American ENKA plant cover the land in Lowland, Tennessee, like a steel skeleton picked clean.

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Three Cities, One Address

My essay “The Bookstore Time Forgot” appears in the current issue of Frontier Magazine. It tells Nashville’s story through Elder’s, Tennessee’s oldest…

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October 2025

Three Hundred Twenty-Two Pages: Jesse Stuart at Vanderbilt

In early summer 1931, Jesse Stuart stood in the Greenup National Bank with empty pockets and a failed tobacco crop behind him.

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Virginia’s Cargo: Culture Carried West

A Review and Bibliography

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