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"The Stick Figure Guy?"

Yes, but don't call him that. He's local cartoonist Joel Priddy.

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About a Boy

On the not-so-secret life of a "Mississippi sissy."

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Pastoralia

Pastoralia by George Saunders (Riverhead Books) Ever feel like your life might look like a theme park exhibit to an outsider? George Saunders collects his thoughts on American...

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Staff Pick: Dark Continent and Other Stories

Dark Continent and Other Stories by Laura Kalpakian (Viking Press) A British lawyer — damaged in the Great War, living in a sort of "sexual Switzerla...

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Feast on This

The Glory of Southern Cooking.

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Staff Pick: The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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Response Time

A trio of Memphis writers tell it like it is (and was).

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Shelf Life

The Soprano: Marguerite Piazza has been such a fixture in Memphis — on stage, in her charity work, on the social scene — it's easy to forget she was once a national star of stage and screen (the TV sc...

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Loose Ends

Larry Brown: down to the finish.

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Staff Pick: A Voyage for Madmen

Staff Pick A Voyage for Madmen By Peter Nichols (Harper Perennial)  "I will play this game when I choose I will resign the game 11 20 40 Ther...

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The Luck of the Draw

For a trio in Tunica, making a killing is all in the cards.

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Staff Pick: Found

Found I & II: The best lost, tossed, and forgotten items from around the world. (Fireside) By Davy Rothbart

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Staff Pick: On The Road

If there is a literary prescription for surviving adolescence in America, it would be reading Huckleberry Finn (by age 13), The Catcher in the Rye(16), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (21).

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Hometown Heroes

A reluctant superman takes a leap of faith; a Cold War warrior fights for his life.

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Class Act

Introducing: award-winning writer and teacher Rebecca Skloot.

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Further Reading

So what do the writers at Memphis magazine's parent company Contemporary Media (CMI) do during their spare time? At last count, more than a dozen current and former staffers of CMI have written books.

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Fiction vs. Nonfiction

You'd be hard-pressed to quickly answer the question, "Who is the greatest nonfiction writer?" The subject of a nonfiction book tends to overshadow the author, rendering the latter difficult to recall...

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Home For the Holidays

Author Michael Knight takes the merry out of Christmas and the happy out of New Year's.

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Staff Pick: Mutts

Mutts (Harry N. Abrams) by Patrick McDonnell  Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts, considered it "one of the best comic strips of all time." Simpsons...

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32 by 32

Whether you agree with our selections or not, one thing is clear: in terms of our contributions to the world, there's more to Memphis than blues and barbecue.

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