So I was at Border's last Saturday, struggling to unclench my 3-year-old's powerful fingers from a LEGO 72-piece fire station set, when I spotted a table near the door bearing some books by one Jack Neely. Somewhat acquainted with the works of this local author, I was surprised to see an unfamiliar book cover:
As my son made a frenzied dash to freedom, door alarms futilely ringing out, I couldn't help but pause to wonder: "How does Jack Neely do it?" I mean, this is his second book of the year--just a few months after his Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth was released. I can't even keep up with the shows on my DVR, and he's off writing entire books? Damn.
Dispirited by my growing sense of personal shame, I nevertheless retrieved my son by his ankles and vowed to tell others of this new Neely book: Knoxville: This Obscure Prismatic City. It's sort of a greatest hits of quirky Knoxville history--so if you've lost your copies of the out-of-print Secret History volumes, now's your chance to relive the odd memories of our little town. Published by The History Press in South Carolina, it should be available in local book stores.
Hey, you don't need to buy some gifts for any reason, do you?
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