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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: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: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: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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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: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: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:Jerry Mitchell for Race Against Time
DESCRIPTION:The astonishing\, courageous story of a journalist’s dogged pursuit of the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement  \nSquare Books in partnership with the Mississippi June Bug Society presents award-winning investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell for Race Against Time.  \n 
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SUMMARY:Robert Busby in conversation with Ace Atkins for Bodock
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nIn 1994\, the real Mid-South Ice Storm strikes the fictitious town of Bodock in Claygardner County\,Mississippi. In the wake of the storm\, what is left unbroken\, and what broken things can be rebuilt? Hailed by Maurice Carlos Ruffin as “leaving no feeling untouched\,” Robert Busby’s debut balances grit with heart\, violence with depth\, and tragedy with humor. Two siblings survey the damage to their family’s orchard after the storm while their rich nephew circles in the hopes of buying up the property. A slacker divorcee drives his ex-father-in-law to his lung transplant surgery. A cop tries to piece his broken family back together in the wake of the loss of his son. In 1816\, a farmer’s wife plots with an enslaved woman to stop her husband from committing a terrible act. And in a town that is not quite Bodock\, a population of ghosts reckon with their unsettled pasts. In the spirit of Brad Watson’s Last Days of the Dog-Men\, Bodock traverses time and dimensions to surface the struggles of the everyday. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nRobert Busby grew up in the hill country of North Mississippi and has worked as a bandsaw operator\, bookseller\, copywriter\, driving school instructor\, powder coater\, prep cook\, produce clerk\, teacher\, and satellite television technician. A graduate of the University of Mississippi\, he got his MFA in Fiction from Florida International University\, and his stories have appeared in Arkansas Review\, Cold Mountain Review\, Footnote\, Mississippi Noir\, PANK\, Pleiades\, Sou’wester\, Surreal South\, and others. Currently\, he writes\, runs\, and raises two humans with his wife in Memphis\, TN. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the conversation partner \nAce Atkins is an award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and numerous short stories. A former college football player and newspaper reporter\, he’s a recent recipient of the Richard Wright Award for excellence in Southern Literature and a member of the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. He lives with his wife Angela and two children in Oxford\, Mississippi.
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SUMMARY:Lauren Rhoades in conversation with Mary Miller for Split the Baby
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nIn honest and captivating prose\, Split the Baby chronicles the toll of divorce and family rupture from the perspective of a child who was nearly torn in two. Lauren Rhoades retells her experience of growing up caught between two homes run by equally strong women: a fervently Catholic stepmother and a deeply sensitive Jewish mother. Pulled toward radically distinct family cultures with rich but conflicting religious traditions\, the young girl struggles to reconcile her stepmother’s possessive charm with her mother’s fierce and vulnerable love. \nWorking with a trove of salvaged documents—including psychological evaluations\, legal records\, and personal family diaries—Rhoades searches for answers to questions of identity\, spirituality\, and the relationships that most deeply shape us. Ultimately\, this debut memoir-in-pieces is a thoughtful story of learning to become whole again. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nLauren Rhoades is a writer\, editor\, and grantmaker living in Jackson\, Mississippi. Originally from Denver\, Colorado\, Lauren has served with AmeriCorps\, started Mississippi’s first fermentation company\, and helmed the Eudora Welty House & Garden. She is now director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission and a host of MPB’s The Mississippi Arts Hour. In 2022\, Lauren founded Rooted Magazine\, an online publication dedicated to telling unfiltered stories about what it means to call Mississippi home. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women. Split the Baby is her first book. \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the conversation partner \nMary Miller is the author of two novels\, Biloxi and The Last Days of California\, as well as two short story collections\, Always Happy Hour and Big World. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review\, the Oxford American\, McSweeney’s Quarterly\, Norton’s Seagull Book of Stories\, and Pushcart Prize XLIV\, among others.
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH Michael Farris Smith in conversation with John T Edge for Lay Your Armor Down
DESCRIPTION:A dark Southern tale of desperate souls who’ve wound up on the road of poor choices \nMichael Farris Smith in conversation with John T Edge for the launch of Lay Your Armor Down\, a “prophetic\, propulsive tale” of a messianic child with untold powers\, and those out hunting her for their own reward\, told in Smith’s trademark mournful\, spirit-gnawing prose. \nAbout the book \n“Michael Farris Smith possesses a conductor’s mastery and a lead singer’s swagger\, and Lay Your Armor Down demands that you pay attention.” – Wright Thompson \nAn old woman\, riddled with dementia\, walks off into\nthe woods in the middle of the night. A light in the\nwood draws her to a campfire with two strange\,\ndangerous men\, one young and one old\, who are\nthere plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate\npurpose. The two men have a job to do. They are\nhunting something precious but have only been told:\nyou’ll know it when you see it. When they arrive at\nthe place\, an abandoned church cellar in the\nburned-out countryside\, they find an answer they never could have predicted. Now\, the job feels dubious\, one that’ll surely bring them to ruin. Yet if they’re to go against orders\, no step can be undone\, and nothing can be taken back. \nIn spare\, Beckett-like prose\, Lay Your Armor Down reduces the epic to its most elemental. It charts the course of several broken people\, all outrunning danger’s dark fingers\, and all brought together for one last chance at redemption. \nAbout the author \nMichael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire\, NPR\, Southern Living\, Garden & Gun\, Oprah Magazine\, Book Riot\, and numerous other outlets\, and have been named Indie Next\, Barnes & Noble Discover\, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. As a screenwriter\, he scripted the feature-film adaptations of his novels Desperation Road and The Fighter\, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark. With his band MFS & The Smokes\, Smith wrote and released the record Lostville\, which was produced by Grammy nominee Jimbo Mathus. He lives in Oxford\, Mississippi\, with his wife and daughters. \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 of 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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Andrew West for Dogwood:  A National Guard Unit's War in Iraq
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Martha Park in conversation with John T Edge for World Without End
DESCRIPTION:In these penetrating and beautifully wrought essays\, Martha Park employs her many identities—artist\, naturalist\, southerner\, mother\, preacher’s daughter astray—to investigate profound questions about faith and the fate of our planet. It is rare to find a voice like this: at once vulnerable and rigorous\, skeptical and compassionate\, commanding and humble in the presence of mystery.” – Lisa Wells\, author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World \nWhen Martha Park’s father announces he is retiring from the ministry after forty-two years\, she moves home to Memphis to attend his United Methodist church for his last year in the pulpit. She hopes to encounter a more certain sense of herself as secular or religious. Instead\, she becomes increasingly compelled by her uncertainty\, and grows curious whether doubt itself could be a kind of faith that more closely echoes a world marked by loss\, beauty\, and constant change. \n\n\n\n\nIn illustrated essays\, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After explores the intersections of faith\, motherhood\, and the climate crisis across the South. From man-made wetlands in Arkansas to conservation cemeteries in South Carolina\, from a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky to the reenactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial\, Park chronicles the ways the faith in which she was raised now seems like an exception to the rule\, exploring this divide with compassion and empathy. For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells\, World Without End considers the ways religion shapes how we understand and interact with the world—and how faith can compel us all to work to save the places we love. \nAbout the author \nMartha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis\, Tennessee. She received an MFA from the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University\, and was the Spring 2016 Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. Her collaborative illustrated journalism has been recognized with an EPPY Award for Best use of Data/Infographics and was a finalist for the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Insight Award for Visual Journalism. Martha’s work has appeared in Orion\, Oxford American\, The Guardian\, Grist\, Guernica\, The Bitter Southerner\, ProPublica\, and elsewhere. \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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\non a parcel of 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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Release day party: Freida McFadden's The Tenant
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a dark thriller about a rental gone wrong. Because sometimes you don’t need to look far to find danger. Sometimes\, danger lives right at home. \nCalling all Freida Readahs! Join Square Books for a special release day event for The Tenant\, the latest mind-bending thriller from the author of the Housemaid series and many others. \nPLEASE NOTE: This is not an author event\, and Freida McFadden will not be present. \nBuy a copy of The Tenant at any time during the release day (or pick up a pre-order) to receive special The Tenant swag (limited to the first 50 customers) – and be entered into a draw to receive an extra special grand prize! The prize drawing will be held at 5.30pm at the main store\, and you must be present to receive the prize.
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LOCATION:Square Books\, 160 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH Jaz Brisack in conversation with Joe Atkins for Get on the Job and Organize
DESCRIPTION:A compelling\, inspirational narrative of many recent unionization efforts\, from the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements \nAuthor and activist Jaz Brisack for Get On the Job and Organize\, which takes readers inside the fast-paced\, high-stakes campaigns to unionize companies ranging from Nissan to Starbucks to Tesla. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the book \n\n\n\n\n“Here’s the light to illuminate these dark times — an account of how workers take on corporate power and win. Even more inspiring\, it’s led by Gen Z. Essential reading for anyone who cares about tackling economic inequality and saving democracy.” \n—Robert Reich\, former US Secretary of Labor and author of Aftershock and Saving Capitalism \nGet on the Job and Organize is a compelling\, inspirational narrative of the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts\, telling the broader story of the new\, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest. As one of the exciting new faces of the American Labor Movement\, Jaz Brisack argues that while workers often organize when their place of work is toxic\, it’s equally important to organize when you love your job. \n\n\n\n\nWith an accessible voice and profound insight\, Brisack puts everything into the context of America’s long tradition of labor organizing and shows us how we too can organize our workplaces\, from how to educate yourself and your colleagues\, to what backlash can be expected and how to fight it\, to what victory looks like even if the union doesn’t necessarily “win.” \nAbout the author \nJaz Brisack is a union organizer and cofounder of the Inside Organizer School\, which trains workers to unionize. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar\, they got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo\, New York\, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont\, they also worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben & Jerry’s to Tesla.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio:  Season Finale!  Double Decker Pre-Game!
DESCRIPTION:About the book\n“Let’s discuss . . .” These two words began the viral sensation that is @LandonTalks led by the sharp-witted\, down-home\, Mississippi- born Landon Bryant. If there’s one thing Landon knows\, it’s the South. His anthropological dissections of customs and traditions celebrating all things Southern are a mix of humor\, history\, and head nodding. \nIn his debut book\, Landon discusses everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the South\, including why they say the things they say\, why they eat the things they eat\, and what it really means when someone says\, “Bless your heart.” Every step of the way\, Landon infuses his faux field guide with warmth\, whimsy\, nostalgia\, and his trademark down-to-earth personality with equal measure humor and practical information. If you’ve ever wondered why Southerners are always clutchin’ their pearls or what their affinity is for pecan pie or peanuts and Coke\, then this field guide is for you. \nLearn all about Southern superstitions (think haint blue porches to bottle trees)\, critter guides (how to spot ’em and how to avoid ’em)\, to common Southern sayings (“might could” translates to a polite Southern “no”). Chapter by chapter\, Landon uses his signature style to study the common Southerner through a voice-driven\, heartwarming lens\, all the while sending the same message of unity and come-as-you-are hospitality that has made him the indisputable Southern sweetheart of social media. \nAbout the author\nLandon Bryant is a dynamic force in the world of social media\, rapidly gaining fame as an influential Southern storyteller. You likely know Landon from his often hilarious\, sometimes controversial (when it comes to sugar or salt on grits)\, and always insightful “let’s discuss…” monologues on Southern culture. His journey\, however\, roots back to his days as an acclaimed art teacher whose passion for education continues but now with a much wider audience. Known for his captivating speaking engagements and Southern flair\, Landon leaves audiences deeply satisfied with his influential and authentic voice from the South.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature,Music
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SUMMARY:EARLY MORNING RELEASE PARTY Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life
DESCRIPTION:Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. \nJoin Square Books for an early morning release party for Great Big Beautiful Life! The latest novel from bestselling author Emily Henry was named a Most Anticipated book of 2025 by the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, USA Today and more. \nThe party will start at 8am on Tuesday\, April 22. There will be coffee\, donuts and more fun activities. \n**Please note that this is not an author event\, and Emily Henry will not be present.** \n\n\n\n\nAbout the book \nAlice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be THE Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress\, former tabloid princess\, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century. \nWhen Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period\, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story\, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game. \nOne: Alice genuinely likes people\, which means people usually like Alice–and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. \nTwo: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. \nThree: Hayden Anderson\, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book\, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. \nBut the problem is\, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room. \nAnd it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story–just like the tale Margaret’s spinning–could be a mystery\, tragedy\, or love ballad . . . depending on who’s telling it. \nAbout the author \nEmily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Great Big Beautiful Life\, Funny Story\, Happy Place\, Book Lovers\, People We Meet on Vacation\, and Beach Read. She studied creative writing at Hope College\, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.
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LOCATION:Square Books\, 160 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Nate DiMeo for The Memory Palace
DESCRIPTION:One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The Memory Palace wants you to linger\, to stay awhile\, and find a deeper meaning both in the stories of the past and perhaps in your own life as well.”—Ken Burns \nThe Memory Palace is a collection of crystalline historical tales that read like luminous short fiction and\, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name\, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered. \nSpace capsules filled with fruit flies and future senators. A socialite scientist who gives up her glamorous life to follow love and the elusive prairie chicken. A boy genius on a path to change the world who gets lost in the theoretical possibilities of streetcar transfers. An enslaved man who steals a boat and charts a course that leads him to freedom\, war\, and Congress. A farmer’s wife who puts down her butter churn\, picks up the butter\, and becomes an international art star. An amusement park glowing at the water’s edge when electric lights are a brand-new thing. This cabinet of curiosities teems with wonder. \n\n\n\n\nFor fifteen years\, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today\, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners\, holding things up to the light and weaving facts\, keen insight\, wit\, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales. With new stories and treasured favorites from the beloved podcast assembled alongside dynamic illustrations and archival photographs for the first time\, enchantment awaits you. \nAbout the author \nNate DiMeo is the creator and host of The Memory Palace\, a Peabody Award finalist and among the first group of podcasts preserved by the Library of Congress. He was previously the artist in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and he has performed stories from The Memory Palace live with music\, pictures\, and animation all over the United States and Canada\, as well as in England\, Ireland\, and Australia. DiMeo is the co-author of Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America \, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Prior to producing The Memory Palace\, DiMeo spent a decade in public radio and could be heard on All Things Considered\, Morning Edition\, or Marketplace. He has written for NBC’s Parks and Recreation and ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Callie Collins for Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine
DESCRIPTION:About the book\n“Collins debuts with a finely tuned tale of artistic ambition and cultural shifts in\nthe 1970s Texas music scene…Brilliantly conveys the nitty-gritty details of a\nworking musician’s day-to-day. Music lovers will especially dig this.”\n–Kirkus Reviews \nAgainst the vibrant\, bluesy backdrop of 1970s Austin\, Texas\, this shimmering\ndebut follows the collision between hicks and hipsters that ultimately results in\ntragedy. \nAustin\, Texas is a town in the throes of social upheaval and the Rush Creek\nSaloon\, five miles on its outskirts\, is a bar without a crowd. Until a strange new\nhouse band transforms it from moribund honky-tonk to thriving blues bar. But are the throngs of people and the rowdy music worth the chaos that comes with them?\nWalk Softly on This Heart of Mine is told through three perspectives\, each of whom is in some ways responsible for the rebirth of Rush Creek and for the violence that follows in the afterbirth. Doug Moser\, a country-and-blues guitarist from San Antonio\, is seizing his long-awaited chance at fame but cannot turn away from the easy booze and drugs that come with the life. Deanna Teague owns Rush Creek. Her marriage is rocky and so is her sense of herself\, but she sees a crack of light if she can just hold it all together. And Steven Francis is a boy who loves too fiercely. He grapples with his sexuality\, his God\, and his place in a town where he badly wants to belong. In her heartfelt\, electrifying rockabilly ode to a place in a permanent state of becoming\, Collins has\ncaptured the roughhousing mood and paradoxical longings of the American psyche. The embrace of both inertia and danger\, the longing for freedom and anarchy even as we crave a place to belong. Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine is a time capsule stuffed with heat and booze\, electric guitar riffs and big\, empty spaces. It’s about the cost of fame—the real price of attention—and what it can do to a person\, to a community\, to a whole damn town. \nAbout the author\nCallie Collins is a queer writer and editor from Texas. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she was also a 2018-2019 Zell Postgraduate Fellow. She held a Fiction Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Massachusetts from 2019-2020. She lives in Austin.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Callie Collins for Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n“Collins debuts with a finely tuned tale of artistic ambition and cultural shifts in the 1970s Texas music scene…Brilliantly conveys the nitty-gritty details of a working musician’s day-to-day. Music lovers will especially dig this.”\n–Kirkus Reviews \nAgainst the vibrant\, bluesy backdrop of 1970s Austin\, Texas\, this shimmering debut follows the collision between hicks and hipsters that ultimately results in tragedy. \nAustin\, Texas is a town in the throes of social upheaval and the Rush Creek Saloon\, five miles on its outskirts\, is a bar without a crowd. Until a strange new house band transforms it from moribund honky-tonk to thriving blues bar. But \nare the throngs of people and the rowdy music worth the chaos that comes with them? \nWalk Softly on This Heart of Mine is told through three perspectives\, each of whom is in some ways responsible for the rebirth of Rush Creek and for the violence that follows in the afterbirth. Doug Moser\, a country-and-blues guitarist from San Antonio\, is seizing his long-awaited chance at fame but cannot turn away from the easy booze and drugs that come with the life. Deanna Teague owns Rush Creek. Her marriage is rocky and so is her sense of herself\, but she sees a crack of light if she can just hold it all together. And Steven Francis is a boy who loves too fiercely. He grapples with his sexuality\, his God\, and his place in a town where he badly wants to belong. \nIn her heartfelt\, electrifying rockabilly ode to a place in a permanent state of becoming\, Collins has captured the roughhousing mood and paradoxical longings of the American psyche. The embrace of both inertia and danger\, the longing for freedom and anarchy even as we crave a place to belong. Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine is a time capsule stuffed with heat and booze\, electric guitar riffs and big\, empty spaces. It’s about the cost of fame—the real price of attention—and what it can do to a person\, to a community\, to a whole damn town. \nAbout the author \nCallie Collins is a queer writer and editor from Texas. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she was also a 2018-2019 Zell Postgraduate Fellow. She held a Fiction Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Massachusetts from 2019-2020. She lives in Austin
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Kiese Laymon for City Summer\, Country Summer
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED EVENT \nAbout the book \nOn the ground of that garden\, covered in vegetables and dirt\, coated in laughter\, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable. \nThree Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love. Watched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara\, New York\, Country\, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of marco polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass. \nWith text brimming with love by award-winning author Kiese Laymon and \ndeeply evocative illustrations by Ashley Franklin\, City Summer\, Country Summer illuminates the tenuous and tender bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another. \nAbout the author \nKiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the genre-bending novel Long Division and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon’s bestselling memoir\, Heavy: An American Memoir\, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media\, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. He was also the recipient of the 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard and a MacArthur Genius grant. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Rice University.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Preston Lauterbach for Before Elvis
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\n“Preston Lauterbach has long since made a place for himself as the most valuable chronicler of African-American music as a fulcrum and a center of American culture. But here\, with astonishingly detailed and serpentine storytelling\, with no road of intellectual inquiry ever closed\, he has outdone himself.” – Greil Marcus\, author of “Mystery Train\,” “Lipstick Traces\,” and “Folk Music” \nIn this thought-provoking book\, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley’s music finally receive recognition and praise. \nAfter Baz Luhrmann’s movie\, Elvis\, hit theaters\, audiences and critics alike couldn’t help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley’s music and style\, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King\, author Preston Lauterbach answers these questions definitively\, based on new research and extensive\, previously unpublished interviews with the artists who blazed the way and the people who knew them. \n\n\n\n\nIn the wake of continuing conversations about American music and appropriation\, Before Elvis is indispensable. \nAbout the author \nPreston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit\, as well as two secret histories of Black culture\, Beale Street Dynasty and Bluff City. Preston has also co-authored three memoirs with significant figures in Black music\, including Brother Robert (with the stepsister of bluesman Robert Johnson)\, Timekeeper (with Memphis soul drummer Howard Grimes)\, and the forthcoming Spirit of the Century (with the Blind Boys of Alabama). His works have earned “Book of the Year” recognition from the Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, and Rolling Stone. He lives near Charlottesville\, Virginia.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Oxford Conference for the Book
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LOCATION:Various Locations\, MS
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH Ann Fisher-Wirth and featured poets for the launch of Attached to the Living World
DESCRIPTION:A profound exploration of the intersections of ecological awareness\, social justice\, and poetic expression \nJoin poet and co-editor Ann Fisher-Wirth and featured writers for the launch event for Attached to the Living World\, a collection of more than 150 contemporary poems that urge collective reflection on our carbon footprint\, and a shared commitment to sustainable futures. \nFeaturing readings from Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, Al Favilla\, Ann Fisher-Wirth\, Beth Ann Fennelly\, Kendall Dunkelberg\, Leona Sevick\, Maggie Graber\, Melissa Ginsburg and Stacey Balkun. \nThe evening’s event is a prologue for the 31st Oxford Conference for the Book\, an annual gathering that brings together teachers\, publishers\, booksellers\, writers\, scholars\, agents\, editors\, and booklovers. For more information about the conference visit: oxfordconferenceforthebook.com \nAbout the book \nThe Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative book of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street\, the editors of the daring first volume\, have reunited to create Attached to the Living World. \nThe second anthology explores the issues and conversations in ecopoetry over the past decade and features more than 150 established and emerging poets\, including Mildred Barya\, Nickole Brown\, Simmons Buntin\, Lauren Camp\, Iris Jamahl Dunkle\, Vievee Francis\, CMarie Fuhrman\, Ross Gay\, Erin Hollowell\, Marie Howe\, Petra Kuppers\, J. Drew Lanham\, Ada Limόn\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, January Gill O’Neil\, Catherine Pierce\, Tracy K. Smith\, Brian Teare\, and Natasha Tretheway. With a foreword by Camille Dungy and an introduction by Margaret Ronda\, the poems gathered here provide vital visions to nurture our imaginations and spur us to act. \nAbout the authors\nAnn Fisher-Wirth is the author of several poetry books\, including Paradise Is Jagged\, The Bones of Winter Birds\, Mississippi\, and Carta Marina. She has received the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize\, the Rita Dove Poetry Award\, two Mississippi Arts Commission Poetry fellowships\, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize and 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. She is retired from the University of Mississippi where she was Professor of English and director of the Environmental Studies program. \nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling collection of nature essays\, World of Wonders. She also wrote four previous poetry collections including Oceanic. She is poetry editor for SIERRA magazine\, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club\, and is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. Her newest book is a collection of food essays\, Bite by Bite. \nAlyson (“Al”) Favilla is an MFA student and a Grisham Fellow in poetry at the University of Mississippi. You can find their work in Poetry Ireland Review\, Diode\, Electric Literature\, McSweeney’s\, and\, most recently\, Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Ann Fennelly\, poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021\, is the author of six books\, most recently\, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. Her newest\, The Irish Goodbye: Memoirs & Micro-Memoirs will be published in February of 2026. \nKendall Dunkelberg directs the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing and the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. He is editor of Poetry South and has published three collections of poetry\, Barrier Island Suite\, Time Capsules\, and Landscapes and Architectures\, as well as the textbook A Writer’s Craft: Multi-genre Creative Writing. His fourth poetry collection\, Tree Fall with Birdsong\, will be published by Fernwood Press in May 2025. \nLeona Sevick’s work appears in Orion\, The Southern Review\, The Sun\, and Poetry Northwest. Leona serves on the advisory boards of the Furious Flower Black Poetry Center and the Longleaf Writers Conference. She is provost and professor of English at Bridgewater College in Virginia\, where she teaches Asian American literature. Her second collection of poems\, The Bamboo Wife\, was published by Trio House Press in 2024. \nMaggie Graber is the author of Swan Hammer (MSU Press\, 2022)\, winner of the 2021 Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize and a 2023 nominee for a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Graber has received fellowships from Mississippi Arts Commission and Luminarts Cultural Foundation in support of her writing\, and she currently lives and teaches in Oxford\, Mississippi\, where she earned her Ph.D. \nMelissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City\, the poetry collections Runoff (forthcoming in 2026 from Milkweed Editions)\, Doll Apollo\, and Dear Weather Ghost\, and three poetry chapbooks\, Arbor\, Double Blind\, and Apollo. She is winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry award and has been named the South Arts 2024 Mississippi State Fellow for Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker\, Image\, Guernica\, Kenyon Review\, Fence\, Southwest Review\, and other magazines. She is Director of graduate Creative Writing Programs at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. \nStacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter and co-editor of Fiolet & Wing. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets\, Mississippi Review\, Pleiades\, and several other anthologies and journals. Stacey holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi\, Oxford and an MFA from Fresno State. She lives in New Orleans and teaches online at The Poetry Barn.
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Via Bleidner for If You Lived Here You’d be Famous By Now
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nSoon to be the Netflix Series “Calabasas” — from Kim Kardashian\, Marlene King\, and Emma Roberts \nFor Via Bleidner\, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she’s attended since second grade is a culture shock\, not to mention absolutely lonely. Suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world of celebrities\, affluenza\, and McMansions\, Via takes a page from Cameron Crowe and pretends she’s on a journalism assignment\, taking notes on her classmates and jotting down bits of overheard gossip. \nGetting through high school in Calabasas is something else–from Kim Kardashian endorsing the students’ favorite hidden lunch spot\, to the theater program hiring a famous dog to play Elle Woods’ Chihuahua in its production of Legally Blonde\, and Kanye trying to take control of your school to make it the very first YEEZY institution. \nBut instead of floating through high school detached from her peers\, Via finds that putting herself out there–for her writing\, of course–just might have been exactly what she needed. She unexpectedly finds an eclectic group of friends to call her own\, including a multi-multi-millionaire\, a wild-card throwback intent on going viral\, a former Disney actor\, and a doughnut-dealing madman. \nWith wit\, candor\, and sharp observations\, twenty-one-year-old Via grounds the surreal glamour of Calabasas with reflections on her own coming-of-age\, sharing her teenage misadventures as she struggles to fit in\, faces crushing social pressure\, and eventually makes her own way. \nAbout the author \nVia Bleidner grew up in Los Angeles and is currently studying for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now is her debut. It was published when she was 19 and a student at the University of California\, Santa Barbara.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Jeff Barry for Go to Hell Ole Miss
DESCRIPTION:To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? \nBig John\, a former POW in WWII\, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree\, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs\, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his wife learn their beloved daughter has been beaten to the point of death by the man Big John pressured her to marry\, he needs only three of these words: prince\, darkness\, and gentleman. \nSet in the Mississippi hill country in the early 1970s\, Go to Hell Ole Miss tells the story of a father’s willingness to do almost anything to save his daughter from the Southern gentleman he had pressured her to marry. Almost. \n\n\n\n\nFor fans of Pat Conroy\, Barbara Kingsolver\, Wiley Cash\, and Cormac McCarthy\, Go to Hell Ole Miss is a historical family saga of hope and hardship\, redemption and revenge\, faith and doubt. It’s also a compelling Southern tale with characters that become people who make you laugh\, cry\, and think. \nAbout the author \nJeff Barry is a native Memphian with deep Mississippi roots. After graduate school\, he lived on a small cattle farm like the one featured in Go to Hell Ole Miss. Over the past twenty years\, Jeff has worked in the farmland business in the Mississippi Delta\, taught English in Peru\, and advised farmers in northern Uganda. He now lives in Tennessee with his wife and three children. He enjoys hiking and camping\, loves Hazel\, his yellow Lab\, and likes one of his wife’s three cats.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Sanjena Sathian for Goddess Complex
DESCRIPTION:Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband\, a struggling actor named Killian\, at a commune in India\, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now\, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister’s while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages\, mortgages\, and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward—and finalize her divorce\, ASAP. \n\n\n\n\nThere’s just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down\, she’s bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. \nSoon\, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if she’d chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder\, stranger\, and more tempting than she imagined. \nA darkly funny\, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation\, pregnancy\, and parenting\, Goddess Complex is a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned self-care influencers\, optimization cults\, internet mommy gurus\, egg freezing\, and much more. \nAbout the author \nSanjena Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers\, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by The Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories\, The Atlantic\, Conjunctions\, One Story\, Boulevard\, and more. She’s written nonfiction for The New York Times\, New York magazine\, The Drift\, The Yale Review\, and NewYorker.com\, among other outlets. \nShe’s an alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at Emory University\, the University of Iowa\, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In spring 2025\, she will serve as the Ferrol A. Sams Jr. Distinguished Chair of English at Mercer University.
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Via Bleidner for If You Lived Here You’d be Famous By Now
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nSoon to be the Netflix Series “Calabasas” — from Kim Kardashian\, Marlene King\, and Emma Roberts \nFor Via Bleidner\, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she’s attended since second grade is a culture shock\, not to mention absolutely lonely. Suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world of celebrities\, affluenza\, and McMansions\, Via takes a page from Cameron Crowe and pretends she’s on a journalism assignment\, taking notes on her classmates and jotting down bits of overheard gossip. \nGetting through high school in Calabasas is something else–from Kim Kardashian endorsing the students’ favorite hidden lunch spot\, to the theater program hiring a famous dog to play Elle Woods’ Chihuahua in its production of Legally Blonde\, and Kanye trying to take control of your school to make it the very first YEEZY institution. \nBut instead of floating through high school detached from her peers\, Via finds that putting herself out there–for her writing\, of course–just might have been exactly what she needed. She unexpectedly finds an eclectic group of friends to call her own\, including a multi-multi-millionaire\, a wild-card throwback intent on going viral\, a former Disney actor\, and a doughnut-dealing madman. \nWith wit\, candor\, and sharp observations\, twenty-one-year-old Via grounds the surreal glamour of Calabasas with reflections on her own coming-of-age\, sharing her teenage misadventures as she struggles to fit in\, faces crushing social pressure\, and eventually makes her own way. \nAbout the author \nVia Bleidner grew up in Los Angeles and is currently studying for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now is her debut. It was published when she was 19 and a student at the University of California\, Santa Barbara.
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SUMMARY:NADIA ALEXIS + MELISSA GINSBURG FOR BEYOND THE WATERSHED
DESCRIPTION:A vital hybrid collection that affirms there’s “nothing like the thirst / of Black girls who believe in their own dreams”\nPoet\, photographer\, and UM creative writing MFA and PhD graduate Nadia Alexis in conversation with poet and author Melissa Ginsburgfor Beyond the Watershed\, a striking debut collection that is a story of survival through love. \nAbout the book\n“These poems are blueprints for discovery\, an assignment in living unabashedly\, lyrics for the moved spirit. Beyond the Watershed invites every reader to bathe in the brilliance of Blackwomen’s burgeoning.” —Mahogany L. Browne \nA hybrid collection of poetry and photography\, Beyond the Watershedexplores generational trauma\, domestic violence\, survival\, and reclamation through a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother’s experiences. Using stunning imagery drawn from the body\, spirit\, nature\, and cityscapes\, Nadia Alexis traces journeys to break free—documenting pain\, making space for light\, becoming a reckoning\, connecting with spirit\, and writing oneself into new seasons of safe waters\, healthy love\, and transformation. \nThis vital debut affirms that there’s “nothing like the thirst / of Black girls who believe in their own dreams\,” even as they navigate non-linear paths to healing. “Sometimes the clouds speak to me / & tell me to look beyond the burning\,” the daughter declares\, and indeed she does. \nAbout the author\nNadia Alexis is the debut author of Beyond the Watershed\, a poetry and photography collection forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in March 2025. \nA Harlem-born poet\, writer\, photographer\, and daughter of Haitian immigrants\, she has received grants\, fellowships\, and awards from the Mississippi Arts Commission\, Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration\, Haitian Creatives Digital Awards\, the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, among others. Nadia’s photography has been exhibited in the U.S.\, Cuba\, and virtually. \nA fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole\, she holds a PhD and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. \nAbout the conversation partner\nMelissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collections Doll Apollo(winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award) and Dear Weather Ghost\, the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City\, and three poetry chapbooks: Arbor\, Double Blind\, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker\, Image\, Guernica\, Kenyon Review\, Fence\, Southwest Review\, and other magazines. \nOriginally from Houston\, Texas\, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi\, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford\, Mississippi.
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: David Wright Faladé for The New Internationals
DESCRIPTION:About the book\nA stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story\, a cross-cultural romance\, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history \nParis\, 1947. The city\, recovering from the Nazi occupation\, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population\, American GIs and young people from France’s colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum\, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything\, meets Minette Traor \, a feisty\, French-born girl of Senegalese descent\, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There\, she also meets Sebastien Danxom \, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa\, and romance blooms. \nBack in Paris\, as these young internationals haunt the cafe’s and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter\, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack Gray\, a charming African-American GI\, sets his sights on Cecile\, her complicated relationship with Sebastien\, as well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies\, are pushed to the brink. \nNuanced\, powerful\, and sharply realized\, The New Internationalschronicles the post-war awakening and the young women and men who rose up – and came together – in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment\, trying to imagine a better world. \nAbout the author\nDavid Wright Faladé is a professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of the novel Black Cloud Rising\, and coauthor of the young adult novel Away Running and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers\, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. The recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award\, he has written for the New Yorker\, Village Voice\, Southern Review\, Newsday\, and more.
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CATEGORIES:Literature
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