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Elvis Saves

How a Yankee found religion in the music of the boy from Tupelo

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Nanci Griffith, one of the finest Texas songwriters ever, left this earth two years ago. Her music lives on in a new tribute album out today. Mary Gauthier writes about the lasting power of Griffith’s songs.

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Atlanta’s Abra Lee is on a quest to recognize Black America’s greatest horticulturists.

Daniel Wallace interprets two pages from the revealing, long-lost journals of his brother-in-law, William Nealy.

For national LGBTQ Pride Month, we bring you a Southern novelist’s story of coming out.

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Two lifelong friends—one a poet, one a painter–talk about it all: labor, joy, and love; the value of slowness; the subtleties of structure; and how to “make it soft, make it low.”

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Elvis Saves

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