As seen through the eyes of Sam Venable, the world is indeed bizarre and filled with nuttiness. The archives of the Knoxville News Sentinel offer ample evidence that Venable is a bit of the former and
Read an excerptTennessee humorist Sam Venable has been tickling funny bones in print for more than twenty-five years.? Someday I May Find Honest Work? is a collection of 125 of his columns, many of wh
Two years after Sam Venable became the outdoor editor for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, he began receiving photographs of fish marked with only a phone number and the mysterious words “top-water Hubbar
The complicated and often vexed relationships between humans and their neighbors in the natural world are illuminated in this collection of sixteen essays that each showcase a particular animal or pla
