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Past Issues:
- March 19, 2004:
- March 12, 2004: Oxford
Book Conference dedicated to Walker Percy
New book recounts
black artist's pre-integration study at Ole Miss
- March 5, 2004: Authors
gather in Oxford for 11th annual Book Conference
Literary
events in Jackson, Delta bookend book conference
- Feb. 27, 2004: New
books: The Last Juror, by John Grisham; High Country, by
Nevada Barr; Flashback, by Nevada Barr
- Feb. 20, 2004:
- Feb. 13, 2004:
- Feb. 6, 2004:
- Jan. 30, 2004:
- Jan. 23, 2004: Mississippi
Library Commission seeks book nominations
- Jan. 16, 2004:
- Jan. 9, 2004:
- Jan. 2, 2004:
- Dec. 26, 2003:
- Dec. 19, 2003: Call
for Papers: Delta Blues Symposium X: The 1950s
Call for Papers:
Eudora Welty in/and America
- Dec. 12, 2003: Barry
Hannah receives short fiction
award
John T. Marszalek returns
to MSU to head scholarship program
- Dec. 5, 2003: John
T. Edge named top 20 southerner
- Nov. 28, 2003:
- Nov. 21, 2003:
- Nov. 14, 2003:
- Nov. 7, 2003:
- Oct. 31, 2003:
- Oct. 24, 2003:
- Oct. 17, 2003:
- Oct. 10, 2003: Welty
house to become museum
- Oct. 3, 2003:
- Sept. 26, 2003:
- Sept. 19, 2003: Faulkner
birthday to be celebrated
New books: Bleachers, by John
Grisham; On William Faulkner, by Eudora Welty
- Sept. 12, 2003: Calls
for Papers: The Mississippi Encyclopedia, Faulkner in the 21st
Century
New books: They Write Among Us: New Stories and Essays
from the Best of Oxford Writers, edited by Jim Dees; The Rabbit
Factory, by Larry Brown
- Sept. 5, 2003: New
books: Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe II: Anthology of Southern
Writers, edited by Sonny Brewer; The Footprints of God, by
Greg Iles
- Aug. 29, 2003: New
book: Blue Window: Poems, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
- Aug. 22, 2003: New
book: The Hit, by Jere Hoar
- Aug. 15, 2003: Writer,
instructor James Whitehead dies at 67
Georgia author Janisse
Ray joins Ole Miss faculty as Grisham writer in residence for 2003-04
Thacker Mountain Radio receives grant
New books: Robert
G. Clark’s Journey to the House: A Black Politician’s Story,
by Will D. Campbell; Sonny Montgomery: The Veteran’s Champion,
by G. V. “Sonny” Montgomery et al; Mississippi: A Documentary
History, edited by Bradley G. Bond
- Aug.
8, 2003:
- Aug. 1, 2003:
- July 25, 2003:
- July 18, 2003:
- July 11, 2003:
- July 4, 2003:
- June 27, 2003: Faulkner
Conference to focus on Souths ecology
nominees sought for
University of Mississippi journalism award
Library receives Eudora
Welty Scrapbook
New book: Sleep No More, by Greg Iles
- June 20, 2003:
- June 13, 2003: Faulkner
Conference to examine Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
New or updated articles: William Clark Falkner, Eudora Welty
New book: Some Notes on River Country, by Eudora Welty
- June 6, 2003:
Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard announce tour
Shay Youngblood finishes
year as Grisham writer-in-residence
New book: Of Long Memory:
Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers, by Adam Nossiter
- May 30, 2003:
Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard to announce tour at Faulkner home
- May 23, 2003:
Yalobusha Review hits newsstands
Tallahatchie RiverFest
seeks fiction submissions
- May 16, 2003:
New book: The Granta Book of the American Long Story, edited
by Richard Ford
- May 9, 2003:
New book: Shelby Foote: A Writers Life, by C. Stuart Chapman
- May 2, 2003: Jim
Hensons children buy back the Jim Henson Company
New books:
Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare
Era, by John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis; Splintered Bones,
by Carolyn Haines
2003 Yalobusha Review now available
- April 25, 2003:
Film version of Grishams A Painted House to air on CBS
New articles: Reuben Davis, Irwin Russell, Clayton Sullivan
New books: Rescuing the Bible from Christians and Jesus &
the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church: A Fable, by Clayton Sullivan
Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers Workshop
- April 18, 2003:
Event to raise money for Mississippi State University literary magazine
- April 11, 2003:
New articles: Joyce A. Ladner, Otha Richard Sullivan
New books:
African American Women Scientists and Inventors, by Otha Richard
Sullivan; The New Urban Leaders, by Joyce A. Ladner
P&G
Communications announcement
- April 4, 2003: Oxford
Book Conference to celebrate Stark Young
New article: Stark Young
New books: Crossed Bones, by Carolyn Haines; Sixth
Inning in Southaven, by Phil Hardwick; Escape from Heart,
by Lynette Stark
Latest issue of The Southern Register
available online
- March 28, 2003: Oxford
Conference for the Book scheduled for April 10-13
New article:
Marty Stuart
- March 21, 2003:
- March 14, 2003: Poet
Beth Ann Fennelly reads at Library of Congress, on Voice of America
Mississippi State University English professor named associate
arts and sciences dean
New article: George Thatcher
New
books: Flashback, by Nevada Barr; Sons of Mississippi: A Story
of Race and Legacy, by Paul Hendrickson; Marvelous Old Mansions
and Other Southern Treasures, by Sylvia Higginbotham; Reflections:
Homes and History of Columbus, Mississippi, by Sylvia Higginbotham,
photography by Mark Coffey
- March 7, 2003:
- Feb. 28, 2003: Retired
historian helps plan national tributes
Revived Oprah book club
to focus on classics
New article: John F. Marszalek
New
books: The Briar King, by Greg Keyes; Revelers, by Beth
Henley; Signature, by Beth Henley
- Feb. 21, 2003: Clifton
L. Taulbert visits Oxford
Key West festival honors Tennessee
Williams
Call for Papers: Faulkner in the World
Mississippi
writers nominated for Southeast Booksellers Association awards
New fan website on Charlaine Harris
New Books: The Undiscovered
Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, edited by Philip
C. Kolin; The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume 1: 1920-1945,
edited by Albert J. Davlin and Nancy M. Tischler; The 16th Mississippi
Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences, edited by Robert
G. Evans; Lost Landmarks of Mississippi, by Mary Carol Miller
- Feb.
14, 2003: Author Clifton L. Taulbert
to speak Feb. 17
New Article: Clifton L. Taulbert
The
Journey Home: A Fathers Gift to His Son and Little Cliff
and the Cold Place, by Clifton L. Taulbert; Separate, But Equal:
The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, by Henry Clay
Anderson, with an essay by Clifton L. Taulbert; Jackpot Bay,
by Martin Hegwood; Mississippi: An Illustrated History, updated
edition, by Edward N. Akin and Charles C. Bolton
- Feb. 7, 2003: To
America: Personal Reflections of an Historian, by Stephen E. Ambrose;
Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter, by Winson
Hudson and Constance Curry; The King of Torts, by John Grisham
- Jan. 31, 2003: Homesick:
A Memoir, by Sela Ward; The Shadows of God, by J. Gregory
Keyes; Three Plays by Beth Henley
- Jan. 24, 2003: Tell
Me: 30 Stories, by Mary Robison; Shifting Interludes: Selected
Essays, by Willie Morris (edited by Jack Bales); One Writers
Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, by Suzanne Marrs
- Jan. 17, 2003: Oxford
American relaunches publication
William Faulkner: Six
Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin; In the Land
of Dreamy Dreams, by Ellen Gilchrist; Raising Positive Kids in
a Negative World, by Zig Ziglar
- Jan. 10, 2003: Ole
Miss professor wins NEA award
New article: Louisa Dixon
The Return of Gabriel, by John Armistead; No Second Eden:
Poems, by Turner Cassity; Red Dragon: The Shooting Scripts,
by Ted Tally and Thomas Harris; La Salle: A Perilous Journey from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, by Donald Johnson
- Jan. 3, 2002:
- Dec. 27, 2002:
- Dec. 20, 2002:
- Dec. 13, 2002:
- Dec. 6, 2002: Man
accused of stealing Faulkner letters
- Nov. 30, 2002:
- Nov. 22, 2002: I,
Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy: And Other Stories, by Ellen
Gilchrist
- Nov. 15, 2002: Visible
Spirits, by Steve Yarbrough; Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt
Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear, by Minor Ferris Buchanan
- Nov. 8, 2002: To
America: Personal Reflections of a Historian, by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Nov. 1, 2002: New
Donna Tartt novel hits bookstores
The Little Friend, by
Donna Tartt
- Oct. 25, 2002: Beth
Henleys mother stabbed to death
William Faulkner: Six
Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin; In the Land
of Dreamy Dreams, by Ellen Gilchrist; Raising Positive Kids in
a Negative World, by Zig Ziglar
- Oct. 18, 2002: Call
for Papers: Proposed edited collection on Barry Hannah
The
Return of Gabriel, by John Armistead; No Second Eden: Poems,
by Turner Cassity; Red Dragon: The Shooting Scripts, by Ted Talley
& Thomas Harris; La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico, by Donald Johnson
- Oct. 11, 2002: Historian
Stephen Ambrose dies at 66
Clarksdale to host 10th annual Tennessee
Williams Festival
Call for Papers: John Kennedy Toole
New articles: L. C. Dorsey, Donald G. Schueler
Preserving
the Pascagoula, by Donald G. Schueler; The Spirit of Retirement:
Creating a Life of Meaning and Personal Growth, by James A. Autry;
On Writing, by Eudora Welty; Touring Literary Mississippi,
by Patti Carr Black and Marion Barnwell
- Oct. 4, 2002: New
book tours literary Mississippi
- Sep. 27, 2002: Integration
anniversary draws many to University of Mississippi campus
- Sep. 20, 2002:
- Sep. 13, 2002: Myrlie
Evers-Williams to help dedicate Ole Miss civil rights memorial
New articles: Myrlie Evers-Williams, Michael Johnston, Walter F. Pratt,Jr.
Absalom, Absalom! (reprint edition), by William Faulkner;
In the Deep Hearts Core, by Michael Johnston
- Sep. 6, 2002: Professor
brings blues into classroom
Latest issue of Yalobusha Review
literary journal available
Barry Hannah one of 3 to receive Distinguished
Faculty Fellowships
- Aug.
30, 2002:
- Aug. 23, 2002: Award-winning
poets launch Visiting Writers Series at Ole Miss Sept. 5
- Aug. 16, 2002: CFP:
Faulkner and Ideology
CFP: Hemingway, Faulkner,
and the Great American Writer: The Sound and Fury of Competition
Faulkner and the Politics of Reading, by Karl Zender;
The Heaven of Mercury, by Brad Watson; Back to Mississippi:
A Personal Journey Through the Events that Changed America in 1964,
by Mary Winstead
- Aug. 9, 2002: CFP:
Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
CFP: Disclosing
the Secret in Eudora Weltys Fiction and Photography
CFP: Sideshow Wonders: Carnivals, Parades, Pageants and Fairs
in Eudora Weltys Works
The Roadless Yaak: Reflections
and Observations about One of Our Last Great Wilderness Areas, edited
by Rick Bass; Last Scene Alive, by Charlaine Harris
- Aug. 2, 2002: Grisham
film to begin filming
Call for Papers: Delta Blues Symposium
IX
The Hermits Story, by Rick Bass; Tyrus: An
American Legend, by Patrick Creevy; Sleep No More, by Greg
Iles
- July 26, 2002: Oxford
American magazine looking at move to Arkansas
- July 19, 2002: Faulkner
Conference opens Sunday in Oxford ... Rowan oak to open temporarily
during Faulkner Conference, then close until Spring 2003 ... Tickets
to folk opera As I Lay Dying on sale to public ... Kate
Freeman Clark art exhibition to run through September ... New Orleans
Sketches, by William Faulkner, edited by Carvel Collins; Faulkner
and Postmodernism, edited by John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie
- July 12, 2002: Mississippi
State University online resource highlights black Mississippi writers
- July 5, 2002:
- June 28, 2002: Berry
Morgan dies at 83
- June 21, 2002: Historian
John Marszaleck best speaker kudos ... Tom Franklin finishes new novel
... New book touts math skills for journalists
- June 14, 2002: Shay
Youngblood new Grisham writer-in-residence ... July 1 deadlines for
Welty exhibition, writing contest, Faulkner Conference discount
- June 7, 2002:
- May 31, 2002:
- May 24, 2002:
- May 17, 2002: Time
running out for Oxford American ... Yazoo City celebrates Willie
Morris ... The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760,
edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson; Taps, by Willie
Morris; Best of the Oxford American, edited by Marc Smirnoff
and Rick Bragg
- May 10, 2002: Faulkner
C-SPAN program to re-air, be archived on Internet ... Month-by-Month
Gardening in Mississippi, by Felder Rushing; Yonder Stands Your
Orphan, by Barry Hannah
- May 3, 2002: Faulkner
work, home attract live C-SPAN broadcast May 5 ... Mississippi State
University library to exhibit art, writings of Laurie Parker ... Providence,
by Will D. Campbell; Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe,
by David Herbert Donald; Faulkner at West Point, edited by Robert
Paul Ashley and Joseph L. Fant; The Unvanquished, large print
edition, by William Faulkner
- April 19, 2002: PBS
miniseries Frontier House ... William Ferris joins UNC faculty
... Medgar Evers papers donated to Mississippi ... Margaret-Love Denmam,
Linda Peavy ... Frontier House, by Simon Shaw with Linda Peavy
and Ursula Smith; Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative
Process, by Margaret-Love Denmam and Barbara Shoup
- April 5, 2002: Tennessee
Williams exhibition ... Faulkner Conference details ... Tennessee Williams
Slapstick Tragedies April 18-20 ... Claire T. Feild, Charlaine
Harris ... Mississippi Delta Woman in Prism, by Claire T. Feild;
Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris; The Collected
Poems of Tennessee Williams, ed. by David E. Roessel and Nicholas
Rand Moschovakis; Light in August, by William Faulkner (Modern
Library edition)
- March 29, 2002: Welty
house receives funds ... Book conference to celebrate Tennessee Williams,
Grisham Writers-in-Residence ... Museum to exhibit Welty photographs
alongside works by other artists ... Tennessee Williams and the South,
by Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt
- March 15, 2002: Reception
to honor Jere Hoar ... Faulkner newsletter ceases publication ... Saks
Fellowships to help high school teachers attend Faulkner Conference
... Hattiesburg Writers Guild ... Laugh Track, by David Galef;
The Peddlers Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi,
by Edward Cohen
- March 8, 2002: Faulkner
portrait donated ... How to read Faulkner ... Walt Grayson ... Faulkner
A to Z, by A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael Golay; On William
Hollingsworth , by Eudora Welty
- March 1, 2002: Faulkner
& Yoknapatawpha Conference ... Will D. Campbell Online Exhibit ...
Carolyn Haines ... Tishomingo Blues, by Elmore Leonard; Splintered
Bones, by Carolyn Haines
- Feb. 22, 2002: University
Press, Bookfriends, to hold Super Sale ... Katherine Sherwood
Bonner ... A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884, by Sherwood
Bonner ; Pompeii Man, by Paul Ruffin
- Feb. 15, 2002: Larry
Brown film to premiere ... Oxford Conference for the Book to focus on
Tennessee Williams ... Jay Higginbotham ... A Multitude of Sins,
by Richard Ford, Conversations with Richard Ford, edited by Huey
Guagliardo
- Feb. 8, 2002: Ole
Miss center to compile Mississippi encyclopedia ... Faulkner American
Writers C-SPAN program rescheduled ... John Grisham book signings
at five regional independent bookstores ... Charles Reagan Wilson, Shannon
Riley ... Hunting Season, by Nevada Barr
- Feb. 1, 2002: Oxford
American cuts back publication
schedule ... Frank Trippett, Carl Burnham ... The Summons, by
John Grisham
- Jan. 25, 2002: Magnolia
Independent Film Festival
- Jan. 4, 2002: Jimmy
Faulkner dead at 78 ... Stephen Ambrose plagiarism charges ... Civil
rights monument at Ole Miss ... 2002 William Faulkner short fiction
contest ... Faux Faulkner contest
- Dec. 14, 2001: Mildred
D. Taylor
- Dec. 7, 2001: Rowan
Oak to close for renovations ... Ellen Gilchrist ... Collected Stories,
by Ellen Gilchrist
- Nov. 30, 2001: Vicksburg
auditions for The Robber Bridegroom ... Edward Cohen, Shirley
Jean Johnson ... Christmas Stories from Mississippi, edited by
Judy H. Tucker and Charlies R. McCord
- Nov. 15, 2001: Gulf
Coast literary contest ... Useless Virtues, by T. R. Hummer;
Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham
- Nov. 8, 2001: Charles
Reagan Wilson honored ... William Raspberry
- Nov. 1, 2001: 2002
Faulkner Conference CFP ... William Raspberry, Patrick D. Smith, John
A. Williams ... An American Insurrection, by William Doyle
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