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SUMMARY:Ace Atkins for Everybody Wants to Rule the World book launch
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Literature
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Matt Bondurant for North Country
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nNorth Chazy\, New York is the heart of the North Country\, a frigid region nestled against the Canadian border\, characterized by the beautiful landscapes of the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain–plus a steady stream of Quebecois drugs flowing south\, spirited by snowmobile across the ice. \nTom Kaiser\, fresh off a dishonorable discharge from the Air Force\, returns to North Chazy for his ailing father’s final days. It’s an uneasy homecoming–ever since his little sister was lost under the ice in mysterious circumstances when they were children\, Kaiser has felt a terrible presence swimming in the deep. \nNeeding work\, Kaiser falls in with Donnie LeClair\, a slumlord\, loan shark\, and aesthete whose private collection of landscapes would rival a modest museum’s. Kaiser earns his keep roughing up unsavory locals who are late on their rent. But his true value is his aptitude for satellite telemetry\, allowing him to find gaps in border surveillance\, a useful skill for working with a Montreal kingpin who wants to move large quantities of ecstasy into the US. \nAs Kaiser spirals through the underbelly of drugs and crime\, he finds the roots of evil run deep in the North Country–as bleak\, impenetrable\, and foreboding as the frozen lake. \nAbout the author \nMatt Bondurant’s previous novels include Oleander City\, a historical novel about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900\, The Night Swimmer\, which was featured in the New York Times Book Review and Outside Magazine\, The Wettest County in the World\, an international bestseller that was adapted into the feature film Lawless\, and his first novel\, The Third Translation\, also an international bestseller\, translated into fourteen languages. Matt has published numerous short stories\, poems\, essays\, and book reviews\, as well as feature articles specializing in adventure and endurance sports. He currently lives in Oxford\, Mississippi.
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Eliana Ramage for To the Moon and Back
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nMy mother took my sister and me\, and she drove through the night to a place she felt a claim to\, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I stopped asking questions. I picked little glass pieces from my sister’s hair. I watched the moon. \nSteph Harper is on the run. When she was five\, her mother fled an abusive husband—with Steph and her younger sister in tow—to Cherokee Nation\, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response\, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get\, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA\, and ultimately\, to go to the moon. \nTold through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative\, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters\, love and sacrifice\, alienation and heartbreak\, terror and wonder. At its core\, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself. \nAbout the author \nEliana Ramage holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, Lambda Literary\, Tin House\, and Vermont Studio Center. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation\, she lives in Nashville with her family. To the Moon and Back is her first novel.
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
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SUMMARY:Andrew Donnelly for Confederate Sympathies
DESCRIPTION:About the book \nThe archive of the Civil War era is filled with depictions of men’s same-sex affections and intimacies. Across antebellum campaign biographies\, proslavery fiction\, published memoirs of Confederate veterans and Union prisoners of war\, Civil War novels\, newspaper accounts\, and the war’s historiography\, homoerotic symbolism and narratives shaped the era’s politics\, as well as the meaning and memory of the war. The Civil War\, in turn\, shaped the development of homosexuality in the United States. In a book full of surprising insights\, Andrew Donnelly uncovers this deeply consequential queer history at the heart of nineteenth-century national culture. \nRather than presenting a secret or marginalized history\,\nConfederate Sympathies argues that male same-sex affection\nwas central to the nation’s political and cultural development\nduring and after the war—in ways that profoundly shaped race\, power\, and memory in America. \nAbout the author \nAndrew Donnelly is a literary and cultural historian specializing in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction periods and in the field of Southern Studies. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis and received his PhD from Harvard University in 2020. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Boston Athenaeum\, the Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Center for Mark Twain Studies\, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood for Will There Ever Be Another You
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nAmid a global pandemic\, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family\, stunned by a devastating loss\, and of her mind\, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards\, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends\, or more accurately\, she doesn’t know who they are. \nHas the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch\, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email\,” she writes\, “but I live completely in the present now.” \n\n\n\n\nWill There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding\, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking\, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss\, from one of our most original writers. \nAbout the author \nPatricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This\, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021\, and the memoir Priestdaddy\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2017\, as well as the poetry collections Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, and the London Review of Books\, where she is a contributing editor.
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Stories from Ole Miss Baseball
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Chase Parham and Jeff Roberson plus a number of former Ole Miss baseball players for this special signing for Stories from Ole Miss Baseball. \nMore details TBC \nAbout the authors \nChase Parham has more than two decades of media experience and has covered the Ole Miss baseball program for 20 seasons and counting. He’s an editor and writer for Rivals.com and co-owner of MPW Digital\, the most downloaded podcast network in Mississippi. His first book\, Resilient Rebels: Ole Miss Baseball’s Remarkable Path to a National Title\, was one of Mississippi’s top books in 2022. \nJeff Roberson has covered more than 1\,000 Ole Miss baseball games in his sports writing career. He is co-author of Midnight Train\, the life story of former Ole Miss quarterback and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Jim Weatherly. He has served as an archivist and historian for Ole Miss athletics.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature,Sports
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour:  Tom Piazza for Living in the Present with John Prine
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LOCATION:The Powerhouse\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655
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SUMMARY:Thacker Mountain Radio Hour:  Daco Auffenorde for The Medici Curse
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH John T Edge for House of Smoke
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n\n\n\n\nThe author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at table is just one small step toward reckoning. \nIn this unflinching and moving memoir\, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away\, as he tries and fails and tries again to rewrite the stories he inherited. Born in a house where a Confederate general took his first breath and the Lost Cause narrative was gospel\, troubled by the violence he witnessed as a boy\, Edge ran from his past\, searching for a newer and better South. As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a contributor to newspapers and magazines\, he told stories that showcased those possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nIn the process\, Edge became one of the most visible and powerful voices in American food…until he found himself denounced by the audience he once guided\, faced down the limits of his work\, and returned to his origins to find himself once again. Beginning in Georgia and ending in Mississippi\, his search spans the Deep South and charts a very American story of the truth telling and soul searching it takes to love your people and your place. \nAbout the author \nJohn T. Edge writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network\, ESPN\, Disney\, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher\, writer-in-residence\, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford\, Mississippi\, with his wife\, the artist Blair Hobbs.
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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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SUMMARY:THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Addie E Citchens for Dominion
DESCRIPTION:About the book \n“We have never in our reading lives experienced such an imagination\, a gumption\, a breathing Mississippi\, and a craftsperson this locked in at this stage of her career. My god\, we are lucky.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \nReverend Sabre Winfrey\, shepherd of the Seven Seals Baptist Church\, believes in God\, his own privilege\, and enterprise. Besides the barbershop and radio station he owns\, he has an iron hand on every aspect of Dominion\, Mississippi\, society. He and his wife\, Priscilla\, have five boys; the youngest\, Emanuel\, is called Wonderboy—no one sings prettier\, runs as fast\, or turns as many heads. After a surprising encounter with a stranger\, Wonderboy finds himself confronted by questions he’d never imagined\, and his response will send shockwaves through the entire community. Told from the point of view of the women who love these two men\, Dominion illustrates how we enable the everyday violence and casual sins of the patriarchy. \nA Black Southern family drama that deals as much in tenderness and humor as it does in brutality\, Addie E. Citchens’s Dominion reveals the many sinister ways in which we are shaped by fear and patriarchy. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nAddie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale\, Mississippi\, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University\, she studied in the Florida State Writing Program and the Callaloo Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, the Oxford American’s Best of the South\, Midnight & Indigo’s Speculative Fiction Anthology\, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife\, and she has been heard on the Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Radio. She was the inaugural recipient of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship. Dominion is her first novel.
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SUMMARY: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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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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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LOCATION:Off Square Books\, 129 Courthouse Square\, Oxford\, MS\, 38655\, United States
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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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SUMMARY:Andrew West for Dogwood:  A National Guard Unit's War in Iraq
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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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