"The Stick Figure Guy?"
Yes, but don't call him that. He's local cartoonist Joel Priddy.
View ArticlePastoralia
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...
View ArticleStaff 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...
View ArticleShelf 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...
View ArticleStaff 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...
View ArticleStaff Pick: Found
Found I & II: The best lost, tossed, and forgotten items from around the world. (Fireside) By Davy Rothbart
View ArticleStaff 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).
View ArticleHometown Heroes
A reluctant superman takes a leap of faith; a Cold War warrior fights for his life.
View ArticleFurther 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.
View ArticleFiction 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...
View ArticleHome For the Holidays
Author Michael Knight takes the merry out of Christmas and the happy out of New Year's.
View ArticleStaff 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...
View Article32 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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