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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Hannah Pittard for If You Love It\, Let It Kill You
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\n“Pittard’s work lets nothing off the hook\, and I read the book in one sitting\, desperate to know if she—and therefore I—would be all right by the end. I love Hannah Pittard’s dark and squirrelly mind. I’m a huge fan.”\n—Ann Napolitano\, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful \nA novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently—and soon—in her ex-husband’s debut novel. For a week\, her life continues largely unaffected by the news—she cooks\, runs\, teaches\, entertains—but the morning after baking mac ’n’ cheese from scratch for her nephew’s sixth birthday\, she wakes up changed. The contentment she’s long enjoyed is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues\, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body. \n\n\n\n\nSteeped in the strangeness of contemporary life and suggestive of expansive metaphoric possibilities\, If You Love It\, Let It Kill You is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory\, ownership\, and artistic expression \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nHannah Pittard is the author of the novels Listen to Me and The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award\, a MacDowell fellow\, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. She lives with her boyfriend and stepdaughter in Lexington. Much of her family lives nearby.
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SUMMARY:Patrick Ryan for Buckeye
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\n“A small-town novel of epic proportions” (Tom Perrotta)\, this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations\, from World War II to the late twentieth century. \nIn Bonhomie\, Ohio\, a stolen moment of passion\, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe\, binds Cal Jenkins\, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it\, to Margaret Salt\, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife\, Becky\, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead\, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband\, Felix\, is serving on a Navy cargo ship\, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. \n\n\n\n\nLater\, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom\, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America\, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families\, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. \nSweeping yet intimate\, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit\, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nPatrick Ryan is the author of the story collections The Dream Life of Astronauts (named one of the Best Books of the Year by the St. Louis Times-Dispatch\, Literary Hub\, Refinery29\, and Electric Literature\, and longlisted for The Story Prize) and Send Me. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, the anthology Tales of Two Cities\, and elsewhere. The former associate editor of Granta\, he is the current editor-in-chief of the literary magazine One Story. He lives in New York City.
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SUMMARY:MacArthur Cotton for Mississippi’s Black Cotton
DESCRIPTION:“Mac Cotton’s life\, captured so powerfully in this moving memoir\, shows us the ‘everydayness’ of racial apartheid\, and therefore the need\, every day\, to withstand it\, to fight back\, to refuse to back down\, especially when it’s hard. He’s given us a blueprint\, a model for us as ordinary people\, who can\, like he did and so many largely unknown others\, become extraordinary in fighting for human dignity and freedom. This book is a gift for the ages.” – Eddie Glaude\, author of We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For \nThe literature of the civil rights movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the movement\, including\, for example\, Martin Luther King\, but there is little focus on the MacArthur Cottons of the era: the young Black men and women who at great risk to their physical and mental health chose to become involved in the movement when so many others chose not to. Without these young Black people there would have been no movement\, and what was accomplished with the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s would never have happened. \nThis was particularly true in Mississippi\, the most repressive of all fifty states\, and one that had sponsored state terrorism to ensure that white supremacy reigned supreme. Despite having no real reason to believe that change could happen\, MacArthur Cotton and those like him believed that they had to act. In MacArthur’s case\, his actions were in the tradition of his activist family\, and he relates his involvement with many of the important figures in the Mississippi movement\, such as Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer. \nImportantly\, he also honors others like him\, who are largely unknown to history\, such as the Greenes and McGees in Greenwood\, who were waging their own war against their oppressive state. While having been imprisoned many times and having lived in a constant state of terror\, Cotton persisted as a foot soldier in a war and\, as with all veterans of wars\, was left with emotional and psychological scars. Despite the toll that it took on him as a person\, however\, he remains a committed activist to this day. \nAbout the author \nMacArthur Cotton was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi from 1961 through 1966. He later served as chairman of the Attala County NAACP and the Attala County Democratic Party. He lives in Kosciusko\, Mississippi. \nJohn Obee served in the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the 1960s and later worked at the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Addie E Citchens for Dominion
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n“We have never in our reading lives experienced such an imagination\, a gumption\, a breathing Mississippi\, and a craftsperson this locked in at this stage of her career. My god\, we are lucky.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \nReverend Sabre Winfrey\, shepherd of the Seven Seals Baptist Church\, believes in God\, his own privilege\, and enterprise. Besides the barbershop and radio station he owns\, he has an iron hand on every aspect of Dominion\, Mississippi\, society. He and his wife\, Priscilla\, have five boys; the youngest\, Emanuel\, is called Wonderboy—no one sings prettier\, runs as fast\, or turns as many heads. After a surprising encounter with a stranger\, Wonderboy finds himself confronted by questions he’d never imagined\, and his response will send shockwaves through the entire community. Told from the point of view of the women who love these two men\, Dominion illustrates how we enable the everyday violence and casual sins of the patriarchy. \nA Black Southern family drama that deals as much in tenderness and humor as it does in brutality\, Addie E. Citchens’s Dominion reveals the many sinister ways in which we are shaped by fear and patriarchy. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nAddie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale\, Mississippi\, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University\, she studied in the Florida State Writing Program and the Callaloo Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, the Oxford American’s Best of the South\, Midnight & Indigo’s Speculative Fiction Anthology\, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife\, and she has been heard on the Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Radio. She was the inaugural recipient of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship. Dominion is her first novel.
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH John T Edge for House of Smoke
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nThe author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at table is just one small step toward reckoning. \nIn this unflinching and moving memoir\, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away\, as he tries and fails and tries again to rewrite the stories he inherited. Born in a house where a Confederate general took his first breath and the Lost Cause narrative was gospel\, troubled by the violence he witnessed as a boy\, Edge ran from his past\, searching for a newer and better South. As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a contributor to newspapers and magazines\, he told stories that showcased those possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nIn the process\, Edge became one of the most visible and powerful voices in American food…until he found himself denounced by the audience he once guided\, faced down the limits of his work\, and returned to his origins to find himself once again. Beginning in Georgia and ending in Mississippi\, his search spans the Deep South and charts a very American story of the truth telling and soul searching it takes to love your people and your place. \nAbout the author \nJohn T. Edge writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network\, ESPN\, Disney\, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher\, writer-in-residence\, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford\, Mississippi\, with his wife\, the artist Blair Hobbs.
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour:  Daco Auffenorde for The Medici Curse
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour:  Tom Piazza for Living in the Present with John Prine
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Stories from Ole Miss Baseball
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Chase Parham and Jeff Roberson plus a number of former Ole Miss baseball players for this special signing for Stories from Ole Miss Baseball. \nMore details TBC \nAbout the authors \nChase Parham has more than two decades of media experience and has covered the Ole Miss baseball program for 20 seasons and counting. He’s an editor and writer for Rivals.com and co-owner of MPW Digital\, the most downloaded podcast network in Mississippi. His first book\, Resilient Rebels: Ole Miss Baseball’s Remarkable Path to a National Title\, was one of Mississippi’s top books in 2022. \nJeff Roberson has covered more than 1\,000 Ole Miss baseball games in his sports writing career. He is co-author of Midnight Train\, the life story of former Ole Miss quarterback and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Jim Weatherly. He has served as an archivist and historian for Ole Miss athletics.
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood for Will There Ever Be Another You
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nAmid a global pandemic\, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family\, stunned by a devastating loss\, and of her mind\, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards\, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends\, or more accurately\, she doesn’t know who they are. \nHas the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch\, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email\,” she writes\, “but I live completely in the present now.” \n\n\n\n\nWill There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding\, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking\, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss\, from one of our most original writers. \nAbout the author \nPatricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This\, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021\, and the memoir Priestdaddy\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2017\, as well as the poetry collections Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, and the London Review of Books\, where she is a contributing editor.
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