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Common Read: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin and Unmentionables by Beth Ann Fennelly

This guide serves as a useful primer for the common read on Tom Franklin's novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter and Beth Ann Fennelly's Unmentionables poetry collection.

Video and Media about Tom Franklin

Interview with Tom Franklin from Barnes and Noble


Interview with Tom Franklin from On the Fly


Tom Franklin reading from and discussing Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter at the 2010 Clarksville Writer's Conference



Video and Media about Beth Ann Fennelly

  • Beth Ann Fennelly interviewed in writer's forum special for Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Beth Ann Fennelly reads from another collection of hers, "The Kudzu Chronicles"


  • Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin read from their short story, "The Saint of Broken Objects"

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