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Ole Miss Football vs. Arkansas
2025-09-13 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Vaught-Hemingway, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Addie E Citchens for Dominion
2025-09-11 18:00 | The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS, 38655
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 career. My god, we are lucky.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Reverend 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.
A 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.

About the author
Addie 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.

MacArthur Cotton for Mississippi’s Black Cotton
2025-09-09 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
“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
The 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.
This 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.
Importantly, 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.
About the author
MacArthur 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.
John Obee served in the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the 1960s and later worked at the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.

Runaway Gin
2025-09-05 19:00 | The Lyric, 1006 Van Buren , Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Patrick Ryan for Buckeye
2025-09-05 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 late twentieth century.
In 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.

Later, 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.
Sweeping 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.

About the author
Patrick 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.

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR Hannah Pittard for If You Love It, Let It Kill You
2025-09-04 18:00 | The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS, 38655
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 end. I love Hannah Pittard’s dark and squirrelly mind. I’m a huge fan.”
—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
A 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.

Steeped 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

About the author
Hannah 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.

Ole Miss Football vs. Georgia State
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium, University of Mississippi, MS, 38677, United States

Mountain Grass Unit
2025-08-22 19:00 | The Lyric, 1006 Van Buren , Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

The End of All Music presents A Night of Ambient Music with Luke Schneider
2025-08-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Southside Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Peter Guralnick for The Colonel and the King
2025-08-18 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.
Featuring 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.

About the author

Peter 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.
Guralnick 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.

BOOK LAUNCH Sparky Reardon for The Dean: Memoirs and Missives
2025-08-15 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.

About the author
Sparky 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.

Oxford WeeCycle
2025-08-15 - 2025-08-17 | Oxford Activity Center, 400 Price Street, Oxford, MS, 38655
Kids Consignment Sale

University of Mississippi Museum Brown Bag Lecture Series - Lawson King
2025-08-15 12:00 - 13:00 | University Museum, Intersection of South 5th and University Ave. , Oxford , MS, 38655, United States

Megan Abbott in conversation with Jack Pendarvis for El Dorado Drive
2025-08-13 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.
The 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.

Megan 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

About the author
Megan 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.
About the conversation partner
Jack Pendarvis has written seven books. He won two Emmys for his work on the television show Adventure Time. He lives in Oxford, MS.

Knead Your Cure Conference 2025
2025-08-07 - 2025-08-10 | The Jefferson, 365 Highway 6 East, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

The End of All Music presents Always for Pleasure
2025-08-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Lyric, 1006 Van Buren , Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
The End of All Music presents Les Blank’s “Always for Pleasure”
One Night Only Film Screening
Wednesday, August 6th
Doors 6:30 / Movie 7 p.m. (sharp!)
New Orleans dinner served by Chicory Market (red beans & rice, jambalaya, slaw, cornbread, chocolate cake)
All Ages. Good dogs welcome.
Bring a lawn chair.
We’ll be starting the night off with a screening of Les Blank’s short film, “The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins.”
Total running time for both films: 1.5 hrs.
Ticket options:
1) Movie Only Ticket $8
2) Dinner & Movie Ticket $22
GET TICKETS HERE.

Eli Cranor in conversation with John T Edge for Mississippi Blue 42
2025-08-06 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
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 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.
Hoping 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.

About the author

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 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.
Hoping 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.

Nationally 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.
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 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.

United Way Flashback Bash
2025-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Oxford Conference Center, 102 Ed Perry Blvd, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Choctaw Tales and Traditions @ Off Square Books
2025-07-31 17:30 - 18:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Jodie Ross - Live at The Coop
2025-07-27 15:00 - 17:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Kyle Kite - Live at The Coop
2025-07-25 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Lee Clay Johnson + Gary Fisketjon for Bloodline @ Off Square Books
2025-07-25 17:30 - 18:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

House Rulz @ The Power House
2025-07-20 19:00 - 22:00 | The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS, 38655

Bo Adams - Live at The Coop
2025-07-20 15:00 - 17:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Bennie Grooms - Live at The Coop
2025-07-19 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Cricket - Live at The Coop
2025-07-18 20:00 - 22:00 | The Coop @ The Graduate Hotel, North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

The Board of Directors @ Proud Larry's
2025-07-17 21:00 - 23:00 | Proud Larry’s, Oxford, MS, MS, United States

Katherine Wood for Sunburned @ Off Square Books
2025-07-17 17:30 - 18:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

DIY Bouquet Class with Farmstead Florals @ Chicory Market
2025-07-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Chicory Market, 707 North Lamar, Oxford, MS, 38655

Will Griffith @ Proud Larry's
2025-07-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Proud Larry’s, Oxford, MS, MS, United States
