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Jesse Davis

Memphis
As seen in: AllMusic, Memphis Flyer, The Bitter Southerner, Memphis: The City Magazine, Memphis Parent, Dispatchist, Focus Midsouth Magazine
Covers:  Music, Books, Arts, History, Entertainment, Travel
Editor-in-Chief of @memphisflyer; writer, musician, DJ; he/him

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Jesse Davis’s Biography

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Awards include Green Eyeshade, first place for Arts Criticism in 2020; Association of Alternative Newsmedia award, third place for Arts Criticism in 2019. Host of My Morning Mixtape on WEVL Memphis 89.9.

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Myth & Memory: Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer

Myth & Memory: Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most celebrated wordsmiths of the day, and for good reason. To commit an under…

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My Dad's Health Without Wealth

My Dad's Health Without Wealth

Just before Halloween last October, I got the scariest phone call of my life so far. My dad was sick and was …

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Let's Stay Together: Jamie Harmon's "Quarantine Portrait" Series

Let's Stay Together: Jamie Harmon's "Quarantine Portrait" Series

Memphis photographer Jamie Harmon took to the streets and asked his neighbors to stand for portraits of life …

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"Never Say No to a Gig."

"Never Say No to a Gig."

Not long after I moved back to Memphis in 2005, I found myself in a guitar store waiting for a clerk to bring…

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Is Memphis About to Shake, Rattle, and Roll?

Is Memphis About to Shake, Rattle, and Roll?

Between December 1811 and March of 1812, more than a thousand earthquakes rocked the area that would one day …

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Parallel Lives: Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

Parallel Lives: Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

Author’s fifth novel offers quiet comfort. Its narrative is unmoored in time as it patiently reveals its tale…

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Heritage and History

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By Jesse Davis
| Memphis Flyer Verified
Dolly Parton (Photo: Featureflash | Dreamstime.com) In the wake of the death of famed singer, songwriter, actor, philanthropist, businesswoman, and veritable earthbound angel Dolly Parton at 80 years old, I must have read several dozen think pieces about the Tennessean-turned-international-icon’s massive (and by seemingly unanimous agreement, overwhelmingly positive) impact.
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Adventure Time: Let’s Go to the Library!

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By Jesse Davis
| Memphis Flyer Verified
Memphis Public Library (Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki | Creative Commons | via Wikimedia Commons ) In this week’s Memphis Flyer feature “Report: Tennessee Ranks 37th in Country for Child Well-being” by Allie Maury, I read the troubling statistic that, based on the newest Kids Count Data Book, between 65 and 68 percent of fourth graders are not proficient at reading. That 37th ranking is a dire warning. There are only 50 states, so ranking anything below 25th should amount to a five-alarm fire.
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Time After Time

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By Jesse Davis
| Memphis: The City Magazine Verified
“I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.” — Maya Angelou Ellen Morris Prewitt charted a non-traditional path to publication. Though she has long enjoyed the art of storytelling, Prewitt practiced law for 19 years before she eventually set her sights on writing as a profession.
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