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Join us as we welcome STEPHEN BLACK on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of his new book THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE: EIGHT WALKS THROUGH THE TAMED WILD OF WEST TENNESSEE.ABOUT THE BOOK:
How do the landscapes of our childhoods shape the people we become? Can wildness be found wherever we seek it? In The Middle of Somewhere, Stephen Black sets out on foot to answer these questions. Facing his father’s and his own mortality, Black realizes he does not want to die a stranger to his own homeland. So, he embarks on a yearlong journey of eight walks, forming a rough circle around Gibson County, Tennessee.
As Black treks through highways, back roads, field edges, creeks, and small towns, he uncovers the region’s layered natural, cultural, and personal histories. Attentive to the turning seasons, he observes wildlife and weather, gathers local lore, and traces the consequences of human land alteration over two centuries.
Along the way, he finds himself pursued by memory as much as by geography, chasing ghosts, and letting ghosts chase him. The Middle of Somewhere is a quiet, searching memoir of place, mourning, and belonging—an account of walking intentionally into the familiar with the heart to see what’s really there.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Stephen Black is an essayist and poet. His work explores the tangled strands of landscape, memory, and time. Raised in West Tennessee, his writing is grounded in the geography and history of his native region. He is the author of The Middle of Somewhere: Eight Walks Through the Tamed Wild of West Tennessee, published by the University of Tennessee Press, a place-based memoir that tells the story of a yearlong, eight-walk journey around Gibson County, Tennessee. His works have appeared in The Hopper and About Place.
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