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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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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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SUMMARY:Oxford Conference for the Book
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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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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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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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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Adam Gussow for My Family and I
DESCRIPTION:Author and University of Mississippi professor Adam Gussow for My Family and I\, an inspiring memoir about the author’s lifelong quest for racial reconciliation\, the love that sustains his interracial family in contemporary Mississippi\, and the “Yes we can!” hope for American renewal that fades after the deaths of Trayvon Martin\, Michael Brown\, and the despair-driven rise of Black Lives Matter. \nAbout the book\nWhat has happened to the dream of beloved community embraced by Martin Luther King\, Jr. and the civil rights movement of the early 1960s—the vision of a just\, humane\, and colorblind America\, a nation of “black and white together” animated by the spirit of mutual respect and strengthened by the bonds of brotherly love? As Adam Gussow shows in this urgently needed new book\, the dream\, although pressured on every front\, remains alive. \nAt the heart of My Family and I is Gussow’s determination\, in King’s terms\, to live out the true meaning of America’s creed—a quest for transracial brotherhood that takes him from a blues partnership forged on the streets of 1980s Harlem through graduate training at Princeton and\, decades later\, a transformative course on the blues literary tradition that he shares with inmates at Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Farm. \nAnchoring Gussow’s quest is a story of enduring love: a playful\, soulful interracial romance between the newly hired professor at Ole Miss and his soon-to-be-wife Sherrie that blossoms with the birth of a musically gifted son\, Shaun. As America explodes with protest and riots in the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd\, as social justice fundamentalists insist on stigmatizing whiteness and hardening the color line rather than healing the divisions that plague us\, Gussow is forced to fight for what he loves—not just the sanctity of his family circle\, but King’s dream of beloved community. \nMy Family and I gifts the reader with hope for a future beyond America’s seemingly insoluble racial dilemmas. \nAbout the author\nAdam Gussow is a professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and a blues harmonica player and teacher. His many books on the blues include Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition. Gussow’s longtime musical partnership with Sterling “Mr Satan” Magee was the subject of an award-winning documentary\, Satan & Adam (2018)\, which screened on Netflix for several years.
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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: Callan Wink for Beartooth
DESCRIPTION:Callan Wink for Beartooth\, a bracing\, masterful novel about survival\, revenge\, and the bond between brothers \nAbout the book \n“One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable\, the literary treasure you’ve been looking for.”–Junot Diaz \nTwo brothers in dire straits\, living on the edge of Yellowstone\, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut\, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Peter Heller and Donald Ray Pollock. \nIn an aging\, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains\, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid\, on the fringe of Yellowstone\, surviving off the wild after the death of their father. Thad\, the elder\, is more capable of engaging with things like the truck registration\, or the medical bills they can’t afford from their father’s fatal illness\, or the tax lien on the cabin their grandfather built\, while Hazen is . . . different\, more instinctual\, deeply in tune with the natural world. Desperate for money\, they are approached by a shadowy out-of-towner with a dangerous proposition that will change both of their lives forever. \nBeartooth is a fast-paced tale with moments of surprising poignancy set in the grandeur of the American West. Evoking the timeless voices of American pastoral storytelling\, this is a bracing\, masterful novel about survival\, revenge\, and the bond between brothers. \nAbout the author \nCallan Wink has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University\, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays have been published in the New Yorker\, Granta\, Playboy\, Men’s Journal\, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of a novel\, August\, and a collection of short stories\, Dog Run Moon. He lives in Livingston\, Montana\, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River.
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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: A. H. Jerriod Avant for‬‭ Muscadine‬
DESCRIPTION:About the book\n“Muscadine will elicit intimacy and build community. A necessary book in fraught times.” – francine j. harris \nA. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection\, Muscadine\, cultivates the vine of familial memory\, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life\, how the native grape’s “thick skin    [that] teeth / pierce    breaks to pour // sweetly across the tongue.” \nThroughout these pages\, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an environmental awareness of deficit and bounty — appetite pains the stomach and delights the palette. In all seasons\, the tongue’s subversive intelligence sculpts this masterwork of love\, grace\, conflict\, and grief. \nThis book tastes summer and the “ruins of / an afternoon” at once; it explores the language that testifies to loss while illuminating the abundance that loss obscures. Avant accentuates the sonic joys that Black Southern voices bring to bear on memorializing the present and commemorating the past. \nAbout the author\nA. H. Jerriod Avant was born and raised in Longtown\, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University\, Jerriod has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. He’s received scholarships from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference and Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program. A former resident at the James Castle House and Vermont Studio Center\, Jerriod has received two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and an emerging artist grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. His work has appeared in the Boston Review\, Pinwheel\, Callaloo\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Obsidian\, The Yale Review\, and other journals. He’s currently the 2024-25 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.
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LOCATION:The Hendricks Building\, South Main Street\, Water Valley\, MS\, 38965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature,Music
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Maria Zoccola for Helen of Troy\, 1993
DESCRIPTION:Maria Zoccola for Helen of Troy\, 1993 a sharp\, visceral debut poetry collection reimagines Helen of Troy from Homer’s Iliad as a disgruntled housewife in 1990s Tennessee. \nAbout the book \n“Sinking into Helen of Troy\, 1993 felt like the magic of finding a kindred spirit on the stool next to me in a dive bar. Zoccola’s poems kept me saying\, ‘Yes\, yes exactly.’ In her rendering of the rural South\, she takes things I have felt only indistinctly and delivers them to me with sharp and beautiful and brutal clarity.” —Stacey Swann\, author of Olympus\, Texas \n“I cannot foresee a better book of American poetry published this year.” —Ron Rash\, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Serena and Poems: New and Selected \nPart myth retelling\, part character study\, this sharp\, visceral debut poetry collection reimagines Helen of Troy from Homer’s Iliad as a disgruntled housewife in 1990s Tennessee. \nIn the hills of Sparta\, Tennessee\, during the early nineties\, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage\, motherhood\, the monotonous duties of a Southern housewife. But leaving isn’t the same thing as staying gone… \nBlurring the line between mythology and modernity\, Helen of Troy\, 1993 is an unforgettable collection that shows the Homeric Helen like she’s never been seen before. \nAbout the author \nMaria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis\, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University and has spent several years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria’s work has previously appeared in Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Sewanee Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere\, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Helen of Troy\, 1993 is her debut poetry collection
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:William Boyle for Saint of the Narrows Street
DESCRIPTION:The magnum opus from the master of Brooklyn-set crime fiction \nWilliam Boyle in conversation with Ace Atkins for Saint of the Narrows Street\, a searing novel about family secrets and the consequences of one violent\, impulsive act. \nAbout the book \nGravesend\, Brooklyn\, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband\, Saverio\, and their eight-month-old baby\, Fabrizio. On the night Risa’s younger sister\, Giulia\, moves in to recover from a bad breakup\, a fateful accident occurs: Risa\, boiled over with anger and fear\, strikes a drunk\, erratic Sav with a cast-iron pan\, killing him on the spot. \nThe sisters are left with a choice: notify the authorities and make a case for self-defense\, or bury the man’s body and go on with their lives as best they can. In a moment of panic\, in the late hours of the night\, they call upon Sav’s childhood friend—the sweet\, loyal Christopher “Chooch” Gardini—to help them\, hoping they can trust him to carry a secret like this. \nOver the vast expanse of the next eighteen years\, life goes on in the working-class Italian neighborhood of Gravesend as Risa\, Giulia\, Chooch\, and eventually Fabrizio grapple with what happened that night. \nA standout work of character-driven crime fiction from a celebrated author of the form\, Saint of the Narrows Street is a searing and richly drawn novel about the choices we make and how they shape our lives. \nAbout the author \nWilliam Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend\, where he was born and raised. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize\, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK\, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France\, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post\, CrimeReads\, and more. He currently lives in Oxford\, Mississippi. \nAbout the conversation partner \nAce Atkins is an award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author who started his writing career as a crime beat reporter in Florida. Don’t Let the Devil Ride is his thirtieth novel. His previous novels include eleven books in the Quinn Colson series and multiple true-crime novels based on infamous crooks and killers. In 2010\, he was chosen by Robert B. Parker’s family to continue the iconic Spenser series\, adding ten novels to the franchise. He lives in Oxford\, Mississippi with his family.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Early morning release party for Onyx Storm
DESCRIPTION:Join Square Books for an early morning release party for Onyx Storm! The third in the Empyrean series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros is one of the most anticipated novels of 2025. \nThe party will start at 8am on Tuesday\, January 21. There will be coffee\, donuts and Onyx Storm-themed swag – including a raffle to win an Onyx Storm bookplate signed by Rebecca Yarros. \n\n\n\n\n\n**Please note that this is not an author event\, and Rebecca Yarros will not be present.** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book \nAfter nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College\, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. \nBecause the battle has truly begun\, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks\, it’s impossible to know who to trust. \nNow Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit\, luck\, and strength\, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons\, her family\, her home\, and him. \nEven if it means keeping a secret so big\, it could destroy everything. \nThey need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. \nBut a storm is coming…and not everyone can survive its wrath. \nAbout the author \nRebecca Yarros is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifteen novels\, with multiple starred Publishers Weekly reviews and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A second-generation army brat\, Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for more than twenty years. She’s the mother of six children\, and she and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs\, two feisty chinchillas\, and a cat named Artemis\, who rules them all.
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LOCATION:Square Books\, 160 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Adam Ross for Playworld
DESCRIPTION:Author Adam Ross in conversation for Playworld\, a story of miseducation set in a bygone Manhattan. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book \n“In the fall of 1980\, when I was fourteen\, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six\, a mother of two\, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year\, it didn’t seem strange at the time.” \nGriffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York’s elite Boyd Prep—along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach—he’s teetering on the edge of collapse. \nThen comes Naomi Shah\, twenty-two years Griffin’s senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink—whom he shares with his father\, mother\, and younger brother\, Oren—Griffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi’s Mercedes sedan\, again and again\, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm. \nLess a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation\, Playworld is a novel of epic proportions\, bursting with laughter and heartache. \nAbout the author \nAdam Ross is the author of Mr. Peanut\, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and The Economist. He has been a fellow in fiction at the American Academy in Berlin and a Hodder Fellow for Fiction at Princeton University. He is editor of The Sewanee Review. Born and raised in New York City\, he now lives in Nashville\, Tennessee\, with his two daughters
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:CHRIS WHITAKER FOR ALL COLORS OF THE DARK
DESCRIPTION:A journey full of unexpected twists\, shattering turns\, and moments of heart-wrenching beauty \nBest-selling author Chris Whitaker in conversation with Sarah Frances Hardy for All the Colors of the Dark\, a heart-wrenching epic of light and dark\, triumph and tragedy\, devotion and obsession and the fine line that separates them. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the book \n“With deeply affecting characters and ambition to spare\, Whitaker has conjured a dazzling epic that defies easy categorization.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare\, Missouri\, girls are disappearing. \nWhen the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted\, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch\, a local boy\, who saves the girl\, and\, in doing so\, leaves heartache in his wake. \nPatch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another. \nAbout the author \nChris Whitaker is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks\, All the Wicked Girls\, and the New York Times bestseller We Begin at the End. Chris lives in the UK. \nAbout the conversation partner \nSarah Frances Hardy is the award winning author/illustrator of four children’s books and is a frequent presenter at schools and writing conferences. A “professional volunteer”\, Sarah Frances is involved in several statewide arts organizations including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters\, the UM Friends of the Library\, and the Society of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators. Notably\, her illustration work is featured in a permanent exhibit at the Mississippi Children’s museum in Jackson\, Mississippi. Her most recent collaboration is a children’s book based on the newly adopted official state song of Mississippi\, ONE MISSISSIPPI\, written by singer/songwriter Steve Azar.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Book Signing:  Jeff Roberson for The Egg Bowl
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Storytime Takeover - William Joyce for Rocket Puppies
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LOCATION:Square Books\, Jr.\, 111 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour - Willy Vlautin for The Horse
DESCRIPTION:Willy Vlautin for The Horse – a poignant meditation on addiction\, heartbreak\, and the reality of life on the road in smalltime bands.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Literature,Music
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SUMMARY:Eva Payne in conversation with Tess Lefmann for Empire of Purity
DESCRIPTION:University of Mississippi professor Eva Payne in conversation with fellow academic Tess Lefmann for Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution. How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire.
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour - Susan Minot for Don't Be a Stranger
DESCRIPTION:Susan Minot for Don’t Be a Stranger – a gripping\, sensual\, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Free,Literature
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour - Jared Sullivan for Valley So Low
DESCRIPTION:Jared Sullivan for Valley So Low\, a riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history – and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that\, in America\, justice can be bought.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Free,Literature
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SUMMARY:Bill Crawford in conversation with Cecil Brown for A Republican's Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives
DESCRIPTION:A political writer’s compelling mix of history\, political analysis\, and personal angst. Author and political columnist Bill Crawford in Conversation with Cecil Brown for A Republican’s Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives\, a unique and eventful story about Mississippi’s enduring dilemmas and a clarion call for its better possibilities.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Literature,Southern Studies
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour - Abbott Kahler for Eden Undone
DESCRIPTION:Abbott Kahler for Eden Undone – an incredible true story of murder\, romance\, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galapagos.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Free,Literature
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour - Marion Barnwell for All The Things We Didn't Say
DESCRIPTION:Marion Barnwell for All The Things We Didn’t Say\, a poignant dual memoir that offers a unique and moving exploration of growing up in Mississippi across the generations\, and the intersections of family\, motherhood\, and self-discovery.
URL:https://visitoxfordms.com.cft1.a2hosted.com/event/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-marion-barnwell-for-all-the-things-we-didnt-say/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
CATEGORIES:Free,Literature
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Presents: Ace Atkins for Don't Let the Devil Ride
DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:C.H. Hooks in conversation with John T. Edge for Can't Shake the Dust
DESCRIPTION:Buckle up for a high-octane ride through the South’s shadowed heart. Author C.H. Hooks in conversation with John T. Edge for Can’t Shake the Dust\, a Southern coming-of-age novel set in the strip malls and racing circuits of south Georgia.
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour - M.L. Rio for Graveyard Shift
DESCRIPTION:Dark academia queen M.L. Rio\, for Graveyard Shift\, a gothic novella perfect for spooky season.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Literature
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