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SUMMARY:Eli Cranor in conversation with John T Edge for Mississippi Blue 42
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nSpecial Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father\, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why\, fresh out of Quantico\, she’s sent down to Compson\, Mississippi\, to investigate the illicit money flowing into a bustling football program in the heart of the Delta. But two days into the assignment things take a dire turn when UCM’s star quarterback is flung from the roof of a college bar\, lands on a bag of money\, and dies. \nHoping to turn a routine fraud case into a career-defining bust\, Rae ingratiates herself with the fans\, coaches\, players\, and politicians who make up the university’s complex social hierarchy. With rumors of corruption rustling through the kudzu vines\, Rae soon realizes there’s more to the game than what she’d learned as a child. And in order to win\, she’ll have to put all her father’s lessons to the ultimate test. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \n\n\n\n\nSpecial Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father\, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why\, fresh out of Quantico\, she’s sent down to Compson\, Mississippi\, to investigate the illicit money flowing into a bustling football program in the heart of the Delta. But two days into the assignment things take a dire turn when UCM’s star quarterback is flung from the roof of a college bar\, lands on a bag of money\, and dies. \nHoping to turn a routine fraud case into a career-defining bust\, Rae ingratiates herself with the fans\, coaches\, players\, and politicians who make up the university’s complex social hierarchy. With rumors of corruption rustling through the kudzu vines\, Rae soon realizes there’s more to the game than what she’d learned as a child. And in order to win\, she’ll have to put all her father’s lessons to the ultimate test. \n\n\n\n\nNationally bestselling\, Edgar Award–winning author Eli Cranor played quarterback at every level: peewee to professional. These days\, he serves as the “Writer in Residence” at Arkansas Tech\, where he also lends his eye—and sometimes\, his arm—to the university’s football team. Eli’s column\, “Where I’m Writing From\,” appears weekly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. His previous works include Don’t Know Tough\, Ozark Dogs\, and Broiler. \nAbout the conversation partner \nJohn T Edge is the author of The PotLikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South\, named a best book of 2017 by NPR\, Publisher‘s Weekly\, and a host of others. For twenty-two years\, he served as a columnist for the Oxford American\, and for three years he wrote the United Tastes column for the New York Times. He is director of the Mississippi Lab in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi\, where his projects include the launch of Greenfield Farm Writers Residency\, set on a parcel off land outside Oxford where William Faulkner once raised mules. From 1999 through 2021\, he was director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. He is also the host of the television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network\, ESPN\, and Hulu. He lives here in Oxford.
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SUMMARY:Megan Abbott in conversation with Jack Pendarvis for El Dorado Drive
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nAll I want is to be innocent again. But that’s not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel. \nThe three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined\, so did their fortunes. Harper\, the youngest\, is barely making ends meet when her beloved\, charismatic sister Pam—currently in the middle of a contentious battle with her ex-husband—and her eldest sister\, Debra\, approach her about joining an exciting new club. \nThe Wheel offers women like themselves—middle-aged and of declining means—a way to make their own money\, independent of husbands or families. Quickly\, however\, the Wheel’s success\, and their own addiction to it\, leads to greater and greater risks—and a crime so shocking it threatens to bring everything down with it. \n\n\n\n\nMegan Abbott turns her keen eye toward women and money in El Dorado Drive\, a riveting story about power\, vulnerability\, and how desperation draws out our most destructive impulses \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nMegan Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels\, including You Will Know Me\, Give Me Your Hand and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout\, the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University and her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the Paris Review and the Wall Street Journal. Dare Me\, the series she adapted from her own novel\, now streaming on Netflix. Her latest novel\, Beware the Woman\, is now in paperback. \nAbout the conversation partner \nJack Pendarvis has written seven books. He won two Emmys for his work on the television show Adventure Time. He lives in Oxford\, MS.
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH Sparky Reardon for The Dean: Memoirs and Missives
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nOver his thirty-six-year tenure at the University of Mississippi\, Sparky Reardon penned letters\, essays\, and reflections chronicling his experiences working with students. In The Dean: Memoirs and Missives\, Reardon offers a collection of his memories\, thoughts\, and insights from his time at Ole Miss. The book provides a window into the entertaining\, challenging\, humorous\, and occasionally poignant moments of his career\, touching on topics like Oxford\, the University\, sports\, student life\, Neil Armstrong and champagne\, and his passion for writing and reminiscing. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nSparky Reardon retired in 2014 after 36 years at Ole Miss working in student affairs and ending up dean of students\, where he handled everything from organizing student events to enforcing discipline and managing campus crises. Encouraged by friends and driven by his love for writing and reminiscing\, Reardon authored The Dean. Now living in Taylor\, MS\, he cherishes his solitude\, his porch\, and the occasional poker game.
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SUMMARY:Peter Guralnick for The Colonel and the King
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nrom the award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley\, comes a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager\, Colonel Tom Parker\, drawing on a wealth of Parker’s never-before-seen correspondence to reveal that this oft-reviled figure was in fact a confidant\, friend\, and architect of his client’s success. \nFeaturing troves of never-before-seen correspondence from the Colonel’s own archives\, revelatory both for their insights and—particularly with respect to Elvis—their emotional depth\, The Colonel and the King provides a unique perspective on not one but two American originals. A tale of the birth of the modern-day superstar (an invention almost entirely of Parker’s making) by the most acclaimed music writer of his generation\, it presents these two misunderstood icons as they’ve never been seen before: with all of their brilliance\, humor\, and flaws on full display. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \n\n\n\n\nPeter Guralnick’s books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley\, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music\, Feel Like Going Home\, Lost Highway\, and Sweet Soul Music; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. \nGuralnick won a Grammy for his liner notes for Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club\, wrote and co-produced the documentary Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll\, as well as writing the scripts for the Grammy-winning documentary Sam Cooke/Legend and Martin Scorsese’s blues documentary Feel Like Going Home. His 2015 book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year\, awarded by the Biographers International Organization. His most recent book is Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing.
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