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Oxford, MS: Nautilus Publishing (May 1st, 2025)
Hardback. Signed.
Original, never-before published interviews with Donna Tartt, Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Barry Hannah, Jill Conner Browne, Larry Brown, Ellen Douglas, Julia Reed, Elizabeth Spencer, Marion Barnwell, Jarvis DeBerry, Jim Dees, Jere Hoar, Bev Marshall, JoAnne Prichard Morris, Dean Faulkner Wells, Steve Yarbrough, and more. These Mississippi authors seem to converse with one another, progressing from one theme to the next — from history to geography to storytelling to booze to race — at times shadowed by the sadness of segregation and the tumult of integration. Woven through this symphony of narratives are supporting excerpts from literature, archives, histories, and statistics. Rife with humor, horror, and hope, these interviews stitch a tapestry that portrays how Mississippi has contributed more to world literature than any other region of its size in human history.
Judy Long is an editor and writer and the owner of the Byhalia Agency. She has more than three decades of experience in bookselling and publishing. Long managed the legendary Old Black Dog Bookstore in Athens, Georgia, and was a founder and editor-in-chief of Hill Street Press, an independent literary publisher. She served on the Georgia Center for the Book Advisory Board and currently serves on the Board of the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Letters in the state of Georgia and on the Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Awards Committee. Her writing has appeared in Flagpole Magazine, The Georgia Review, and Oxford American. She is the editor of numerous anthologies, including Literary New Orleans.
Joshua Clark has been a bull rider, mountain climber, cannibal, gold miner, bear and alligator
hunter, blueberry farm manager, hardcore punk concert producer, bartender, filmmaker. He is
the author of Heart Like Water, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, and
Leopard, a semi-finalist for the Oscars screenplay fellowship. Clark received an Economics
degree from Yale University and has served as a correspondent for National Public Radio. His
books have been translated into twelve languages.
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