About the book “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. …

TICKETED EVENT About the book On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in …

About the book "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 …

About the book "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 …

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, …

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 …

A compelling, inspirational narrative of many recent unionization efforts, from the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements Author and activist Jaz Brisack for Get On the Job and …

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. …

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. …

A dark Southern tale of desperate souls who've wound up on the road of poor choices Michael Farris Smith in conversation with John T Edge for the launch of Lay …

About the book In 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 …

About the book In 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 …

About the book Special 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 …

About the book All I want is to be innocent again. But that's not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel. The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege …

About the book Over 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 …

About the book rom 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 …

About the book "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 …

About the book “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 …

"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 …

About the book "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 …

About the book The 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 …

About the book Amid 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, …

About the book The 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 …

About the book My 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 …

About the book North 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 …