The View from Parnassus
A s Mount Parnassus was the sacred home to apollo and the muses, ann Patchett and her business partner, Karen hayes, have high hopes that their Parnassus will serve as a “refuge for Nashvillians” who love books.
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James A. Crutchfield | Receives 2011 Owen Wister Award
Franklin author James a. Crutchfield, whose writing career has focused on the early frontier and the american West, is the 2011 recipient of the Owen Wister award for lifetime achievement in Western history and literature. The award is given by Western Writers of America (WWA)…
Yeoman’s Bookstore
I am a lover of books. I come by my passion honestly, having grown up in a family who loved to read and cherished books as ‘pearls of great price.’
…Thankfully, we still have Saralee and Larry Woods’ wonderful
Publisher’s Note
A year ago . . . We launched the new Nashville Arts Magazine. Like any start-up, we worried about our new endeavor, wondering if Nashville would embrace and support our effort. We had a million “What ifs” with which to…
Beyond Words…
by Marshall Chapman
A week ago (June 6), I happened to be sitting in the back seat of a Ford Expedition barreling down a cobblestone highway in north central Mexico at speeds hovering around a hundred miles per hour. This…
So to Speak
by Debbie Mathis Watts
Throughout history, the beauty of words has been celebrated. From the writings of the Japanese haiku poets to the writings of Shakespeare to the popular lyrics of Lennon and McCartney, many who have expressed the beauty…
Poetry | “Summer Thirst”
by Gayle Hutchinson
Several times
I’ve gone to God
About our love
And what to make of it.
The response is always the same . . . let him love you!
Seems irreverently invalid,
Poetry by Rebecca Brown
Circling
We saw you circling,
we saw you soar and dive
We wished that we could be more like you,
more alive
We love you,
I hope you know we love you
We saw you circling -
Poetry | Spring Fever
by Rebecca Brown
I was writing verse by the time I could read and was singing it even before then—from TV jingles to Nat King Cole. A Texas girl, I left home at 18 and began performing my…
Jennie Fields | “The Age of Ecstasy”
Jennie Fields was in Paris walking in the historic Faubourg Saint-Germain on the street where her favorite writer, Edith Wharton, had once lived. During that walk she had no idea that the life of Wharton would consume her own for…
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