Books
| "She Terrified People" by Maria Browning You could never sell the story of Georgia Tann as fiction. |
| A View to a Thrill by Chris Scott For readers who want to escape the summer heat, Ridley Pearson’s latest thriller, Killer View, should generate some welcome chills. |
| Hollywood or Bust by Pablo Tanguay Bret Lott’s newest work, Ancient Highway, is a multigenerational novel told from three alternating perspectives spanning half a century. |
From the Archives
Games Nations Playby Michael Ray Taylor
The 1960 Olympics have largely faded from popular memory, but author David Maraniss finds a cast of memorable characters and a pattern of national and commercial bad behavior that foreshadows many of the controversies surrounding this summer’s games in Beijing.
(Jul 10, 2008)
The Girls, They Are a-Changin'
by Faye Jones
Former Nashville writer Meg Waite Clayton poignantly illustrates the way it really was for women back in the days when the glass ceiling was more like the roof of a marble tomb.
(Jul 10, 2008)
Feminism for Good Girls
by Maria Browning
As is the case with most political movements, there’s always been a current of quasi-religious fervor within American feminism.
(Jul 03, 2008)
Photographic Record
by MiChelle Jones
In the American South, integrated groups of Freedom Riders attempted to desegregate restaurants, rest rooms and waiting rooms associated with Trailways and Greyhound bus lines, as decreed by federal law.
(Jul 03, 2008)
A Call to Pitchforks
by Chris Scott
David Sirota smells a revolution.
(Jun 26, 2008)
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