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Jesse Davis

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

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

Memphis Flyer — Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most celebrated wordsmiths of the day, and for good reason. To commit an understatement, he is enchanting, erudite, and prolific. Coates has been called America's preeminent authority on race. The author of the memoir Between the World and Me and the essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power, he has written about African-American history and white supremacy.
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My Dad's Health Without Wealth

My Dad's Health Without Wealth

Memphis: The City Magazine — Just before Halloween last October, I got the scariest phone call of my life so far. My dad was sick and was refusing to go to the hospital.
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Let's Stay Together: Jamie Harmon's "Quarantine Portrait" Series

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

The Bitter Southerner — Memphis photographer Jamie Harmon took to the streets and asked his neighbors to stand for portraits of life under lockdown.
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"Never Say No to a Gig."

"Never Say No to a Gig."

Memphis: The City Magazine — Not long after I moved back to Memphis in 2005, I found myself in a guitar store waiting for a clerk to bring something from the back. At the time, I wore my hair long, and often I could be found sporting a denim jacket with Led Zeppelin's famous Swan Song logo, a bare-chested angel with his arms thrown out to his sides, embroidered on the back in actual Levi's-brand gold thread.
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Is Memphis About to Shake, Rattle, and Roll?

Is Memphis About to Shake, Rattle, and Roll?

Memphis: The City Magazine — Between December 1811 and March of 1812, more than a thousand earthquakes rocked the area that would one day be known as the Mid-South. The three biggest quakes, usually referred to as the New Madrid earthquakes, were some of the most powerful and devastating seismic events to take place on the North American continent - at least since Europeans landed in the Americas and started keeping records of such things.
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Parallel Lives: Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

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

Memphis Flyer — Author’s fifth novel offers quiet comfort. Its narrative is unmoored in time as it patiently reveals its tale of money, greed, guilt, and delusion.
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Behind the Mask: Four Memphians on the Myths, Merits, and Making of Masks

Behind the Mask: Four Memphians on the Myths, Merits, and Making of Masks

Memphis Flyer — Ever since the novel coronavirus hit U.S. shores, masks have been a talking point. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that everyone wear face masks in public, but - because of concerns about scarcity - the CDC originally said there were few benefits to cloth face masks.
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Cosmic Carnage: Dead Astronauts

Cosmic Carnage: Dead Astronauts

Memphis Flyer — I was in the grip of a wicked fever when I finished Acceptance, the final installment in Jeff VanderMeer's science-fiction/horror epic, the Southern Reach Trilogy. As I sweated it out on the couch, VanderMeer's work, already teeming with freaky flora and fauna, was made all the more hallucinogenic and dreamlike by my fever-addled brain.
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Stone Crush: New Collection of Modern Memphis Soul Released

Stone Crush: New Collection of Modern Memphis Soul Released

Memphis Flyer — "I knew from the beginning that you were the one for me," are the first words heard on "Stone Crush on You," the opening and title track of the new collection Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987, out April 3rd from Light in the Attic Records.
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The Summer Reading Issue: The Bluff City Book Club

The Summer Reading Issue: The Bluff City Book Club

Memphis Flyer — There has never been a better time for some summer reading. It's hot, it's allergy season, and we still have the coronavirus to contend with. Might as well curl up inside with a good book.
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