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Summer Sunset Series
2025-06-08 18:00, 2025-06-01 18:00 (America/Chicago) | The Grove, MS

Live at the Coop- Benny Grooms
2025-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Jerry Mitchell for Race Against Time
2025-06-07 22:30 - 2025-06-08 00:00 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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
Square Books in partnership with the Mississippi June Bug Society presents award-winning investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell for Race Against Time.

Live at The Coop- Ray Cashman
2025-06-07 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Live at The Coop- Davis Cohen
2025-06-06 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Oxford Juneteenth Linen on the Lawn
2025-06-06 18:00 | Old-Amory Pavilion, Community Pavilion (Old Armory) on University Ave., Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Ole Miss Celebrity Softball Game
2025-06-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Ole Miss Softball Complex, University, MS, 38677, United States

Robert Busby in conversation with Ace Atkins for Bodock
2025-06-05 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.

About the author
Robert 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.

About the conversation partner
Ace 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.

Lauren Rhoades in conversation with Mary Miller for Split the Baby
2025-06-04 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.
Working 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.

About the author
Lauren 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.

About the conversation partner
Mary 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.

Live at The Coop - Josh Green
2025-05-31 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Spring Soiree
2025-05-31 19:00 | Live Strive Farms, Mississippi 30, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Live at The Coop - JD Westmoreland
2025-05-30 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Wonderbird Spirits x Jewel of the South Dinner
2025-05-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Wonderbird Spirits, 618 County Rd 303, Taylor, MS, 38673
We are incredibly proud to welcome the award-winning Jewel of the South team to the distillery for our second onsite Gin Dinner. Come experience the best of New Orleans through a menu designed entirely by the Jewel team, featuring Wonderbird Spirits gin cocktail pairings.
Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – James Beard Award Winner
No. 1 Best Bar in South USA
No. 4 Best Bar in North America
No. 34 – World’s 50 Best Bars

BOOK LAUNCH Michael Farris Smith in conversation with John T Edge for Lay Your Armor Down
2025-05-27 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.
About the book
“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
An old woman, riddled with dementia, walks off into
the woods in the middle of the night. A light in the
wood draws her to a campfire with two strange,
dangerous men, one young and one old, who are
there plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate
purpose. The two men have a job to do. They are
hunting something precious but have only been told:
you’ll know it when you see it. When they arrive at
the place, an abandoned church cellar in the
burned-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.
In 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.
About the author
Michael 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.
About the conversation partner
John 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.

Live at The Coop - Laila Dinisco
2025-05-24 20:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Velvet Ditch Gran Fondo
2025-05-24 - 2025-05-25 | Oxford Middle School, 222 Bramlett Blvd., Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Live at The Coop - Deion James
2025-05-23 20:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Landscaping Camp
2025-05-23 10:00 - 2025-05-24 18:00 | MS

World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest
2025-05-23 00:00 - 2025-05-25 00:00 | Various Venues
https://oldtimepianocontest.com

Ole Miss Baseball vs. Auburn
2025-05-17 13:30 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States
Baseball vs. Auburn

Senior Day

Kids run the bases

Shara Layne & Sky King at The Coop
2025-05-17 - 2025-05-18 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Destination Oxford Car Show
2025-05-17 - 2025-05-18 | Downtown Square, Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Ole Miss Baseball vs. Auburn
2025-05-16 18:30 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States
Baseball vs. Auburn

Trading Card giveaway

Ole Miss Baseball vs. Auburn
2025-05-15 18:30 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States
Baseball vs. Auburn

SEC Movie Poster giveaway

Third Thursday Music in the Park - Brady Rees
2025-05-15 17:00 - 19:00 | City Hall Pocket Park

Andrew West for Dogwood: A National Guard Unit's War in Iraq
2025-05-14 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Ole Miss Baseball vs. UT Martin
2025-05-13 18:30 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States
Baseball vs. UT Martin

$2 Dogs

Kids 12 & under get in free!

Martha Park in conversation with John T Edge for World Without End
2025-05-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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
When 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.

In 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.
About the author
Martha 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.
About the conversation partner
John 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.

House Rulz - Improv Comedy
2025-05-11 19:00 | The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS, 38655
May 11th
Doors at 6:30 pm
Show at 7 pm
The Powerhouse
Come see Anubis Improv’s brand new house troupes perform a never-seen-before, never-to-be-seen-again improv comedy show!
Tickets are $10 each!
Online sales will close at 12 pm on May 11th. Tickets will be available at the door!
By proceeding with a ticket purchase, you acknowledge that it is your personal responsibility to make sure the event aligns with your comfort levels and expectations. Ticket purchasers should independently research and assess the event’s content to determine its suitability for their personal preferences and sensitivities before making a purchase.
