Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
31 January 2014

Thomas Hal Phillips: The Bitterweed Path (1950; repr. 1996)

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The Bitterweed Path (1950) by Thomas Hal Phillips (1922–2007) is an interesting book in the history of homosexual literature. It featur...
1 January 2013

Mildred D. Taylor: The Road to Memphis (1990)

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Mildred D. Taylor is sometimes mentioned as a writer of young adult fiction, but this novel certainly doesn't read that way. The Road...
4 July 2012

Hillary Jordan: Mudbound (2008)

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Mudbound is the first novel by Hillary Jordan, who grew up in Dallas, Texas and Muskogee, Oklahama. The book is almost entirely set on and ...
2 January 2012

The Oxford American: Thirteenth Annual Southern Music Issue (2011)

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Although now published in Conway, Arkansas, The Oxford American takes its name from its original place of publication: Oxford, Mississippi....
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29 July 2011

Carl Corley: Sky Eyes (1967)

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After reading Hubert Creekmore's Cotton Country (see the post below), I got curious about other obscure Mississippi writers, and then n...
27 July 2011

Hubert Creekmore: The Fingers of the Night (1946), aka Cotton Country (1950)

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Hubert Creekmore (1907-66) was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, and the son of a lawyer from a renowned planter family. Before the pu...
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6 June 2011

Judith Sargent Murray in Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts

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  Judith Sargent Murray spent almost all of her life in Gloucester and was a powerful supporter of women's rights. Her education came fr...
1 April 2011

Oxford American #72

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The latest issue of Oxford American has just arrived, and shows the writer Barry Hannah (1942-2010), who died last March, on the cover.  It...
20 October 2010

Kathryn Stockett: The Help (2009)

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Kathryn Stockett's The Help (2009) is a very popular novel, and I'm wary of such animals. However, this book - written by a woman b...
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2 January 2010

Selah Saterstrom's The Pink Institution (2004)

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In the world of Southern literature, Southern Gothic is by no means rare, and indeed continues to be strong, but although Southern Gothic is...
24 November 2009

Ripley, Mississippi: Colonel William Falkner: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #14

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Ripley, Mississippi, at midday Saturday is so dead that you can probably drive round the center in your sleep and come to no harm nor cause ...
23 November 2009

New Albany, Mississippi: William Faulkner: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #13

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'William Faulkner. Here, September 25, 1897, was born the distinguished author, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winn...

Oxford, Mississippi: William Faulkner: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #12

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'The Falkner House. Built in 1931 as the home of Murry and Maud Falkner, the parents of Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner. [Wi...
20 October 2009

Greenville, Mississippi: Highway 61 Revisited: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #11

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I take Highway 61 again (which I had previously taken to visit Port Gibson and Natchez), and am once more reminded not only of Bob Dylan...

Jackson, Mississippi: Eudora Welty: Literary Landmarks of the Southern United States, #10

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Jackson celebrates Eudora Welty's centenary, and this was a very eventful day for us. We were, as we had been for the past three days,...