If winter has left you feeling more than a little grumpy and cooped up, you might consider one of the fun and fantastical reads in today’s post as we dream of Spring! Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet, makes the…
“Big Holly” and “Little Holly” lived next door to each other as freshmen at Duke. “I adored her immediately,” says Nashvillian Holly Conner about Holly LeCraw, who grew up in Atlanta. As “token” Southerners, they became fast friends, rooming together sophomore…
Frighteningly perfect children populate some of today’s most acclaimed literary fiction, from All the Light We Cannot See to The Goldfinch. Friend of Bacon Laura Cooper asks why in a brilliant article published today in The Washington Post. She has…
Betsy and Ridley Wills have serious street cred in 37205. Generational. They could have kept things cozy, Belle Meade style, but playing it safe just isn’t the way they roll! Ridley started his own company (you’ve heard of it), and…
I’ve experienced a strange and brutal freedom this week – a forced decluttering. As a result of a Comcast internet issue, compounded by something mysterious going on deep inside my i-Mac, my entire email in-box was wiped out. Along with…