Knoxville bound
Subtitle: a collection of literary works inspired by Knoxville, Tennessee
By: edited by Judy Loest with Jack Rentfro.
Contributors: Loest, Judy.; Rentfro, Jack
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: MetroPulse Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Knoxville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: American literature -- Tennessee -- Knoxville.; American literature -- 20th century.; Knoxville (Tenn.) -- Literary collections.; Tennessee -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: To some contributors, Knoxville is a big, dangerous city, a bewildering Gomorrah of panhandlers, drug dealers, cross-dressers. To others, it's all interstate exits and chain stores; or a slow-paced place to encounter quaint country folk. "Whatever one's orientation, Knoxville makes people think, and also has an alarming tendency to make them write," Editor Judy Loest said.

The anthology is comprised of pieces by both noted and famous authors as well as talented local writers. The book appropriately begins with a snippet of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, followed by the definitive Knoxville vignette, James Agee's "Knoxville: Summer 1915." Noted poet Nikki Giovanni describes life at "400 Mulvaney Street." Author and LSU professor David Madden provides one of his early stories, a Cherokee Boulevard motorcycle-and-girl fantasy called "A Piece of the Sky."
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