Anne Holt's Tennessee Special: Franklin Bookstore Owners Serve as Back Story for Book Turned into Movie View WKRN Special
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A great article by Jim Leggett, an international photo journalist and long-standing member of the HV Morton Society formerly of Glasgow: One can imagine relaxing, secluded in this comfortable chair, a...
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When you walk into Landmark Booksellers, one of the first things you notice is a wall lined with 22 portraits. These framed portraits contain photos of 22 of the most...
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Oxford American polled 134 scholars asking them about the top 10 Southern novels of all time. Here were the results: Absalom, Absalom! ~William Faulkner All the King's Men ~ Robert...
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Check out the list of top 100 books that are a part of The Great American Read. We have most of them in stock, and if we don't, we can...
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Book lovers find happily ever after at Landmark Booksellers. With a combined interest in books and reading, Landmark Booksellers became a love story of sorts for Joel and Carol Tomlin. Joel...
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The Battle of Franklin: 152 Years Ago Today From Winstead Hill 4023 Columbia Ave, Franklin,…
Every time I trek through Franklin, I make sure to stop in at Landmark. On my first visit, I had a lovely, long conversation with the owner, and ever since, it's felt like visiting a friend. The antebellum building has loads of character, and it's brimming with books without feeling over crowded. There are countless little nooks and crannies to explore, and the selection of books is well-organized and easy to access. One of my favorite extra features is the little reading porch on the second story! Definitely make this a stop on your trip to Franklin, whether you're looking for a book, or just a comfortable glimpse of local character and history.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that storybooks had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass,” Eudora Welty once said. “Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.
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