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State of the Art: Tennessee

STATE OF THE ART: TENNESSEE
By Diann Blakely


Morgan Entrekin, head of Grove-Atlantic Press, made a fresh name for himself in a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece not long ago when he freely admitted to not reading all of the books he publishes. Yet the Nashville native continues to prove that he’s no chopped (chicken) liver with

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