Please stop in at Bacon for the next few weeks to enjoy summer interviews with some of Nashville’s most interesting couples – what they’re up to, what they remember about summers past, what they’re reading right now! Richard and Barbara Keith…
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Today’s guest contributor, Sara Bhatia, lives in the whirling vortex of Washington, D.C., but she keeps a remarkably steady spirit and intellect. Lately, she’s enjoyed volunteering at the Newseum, one of Washington’s most popular museums, which focuses on the First Amendment and journalism. “In…
I picked up a paperback off the Father’s Day table for myself. The World’s Largest Man is Harrison Scott Key’s comic tale of growing up in Mississippi with his larger-than-life father – a hot-tempered hunter, gun-lover, and football coach. Key, inheriting…
“I love the warmth and flexibility of summer!” says Bacon contributor Carolyn Hall. “Case in point, I had a free night last week while my husband took our daughter to a college visit at his alma mater. I convinced a good…
Today, my husband reviews John Feinstein’s new book, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry. I assure you that his first draft was even less balanced and fair. He was delighted to…
I have to tell you about The Summer Book, a quietly beautiful little novel first published in 1972 and still in print. The paperback is just the right size for your beach bag, and it’s like the perfect sand dollar…
LA, you’ve got nothing on Nashville! Well, there’s the year-round sunshine. Hollywood. The Pacific Ocean. And the books you’ve inspired. I’m forced to concede you might have a few things. Today, Matt Osborne and I feature three books set…
It is no small thing to write a book that is the culmination of your life’s work. That’s what my neighbor Andy Spickard has done, and I’m incredibly happy to share it with you today – The Craving Brain: Science,…
Mothers do have ideas about how things should be. In her new memoir Dimestore: A Writer’s Life, Lee Smith (Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Ordinary Grace) shares some of the things her mother taught her: “I was not to…