Back in 2019, four guys wrote in the The Denver Post about the possibility of the USA Today/Gannett chain being acquired by the Post-owning MediaNews Group, which is owned by …
James Agee’s muse lies in Greenwood Cemetery
What all did they do out there? They put him down in the ground and then they put all the flowers on top. Then they say their prayers and then …
Giving thanks for James Agee on his 110th birthday
How do you honor a Knoxville icon on the 110th anniversary of his birth? Well, if it’s James Agee, you celebrate his work in film.
That’s what Central Cinema, 1205 N. …
Historian, writer Jack Neely enriches our historically rich town
As writer and historian Jack Neely talked to an audience of writers and outright fans at the Knoxville Writers Guild gathering at Central United Methodist Church last Thursday evening, it …
A death on Clinton Highway
James Agee won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with “A Death in the Family,” and now a local author is writing a biography, “Rufus,” that includes Agee’s early years …
Pellissippi State hosts second annual James Agee Conference
New York Times bestselling novelist Silas House will be keynote speaker at the second annual James Agee Conference for Literature and Arts Oct. 6-7 at Pellissippi State Community College.
The conference, …