Mississippian Donna Tartt wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction with 'The Goldfinch'
With the announcement this week of Donna Tartt capturing the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, another star is added to Mississippi’s literary crown. She won for the epic The Goldfinch, a 758-page novel that...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Lives of blind French girl and Nazi Youth converge in occupied France
It’s fairly certain All the Light We Cannot See is going to be on the 2014 list of favorite books for a lot of us. It has many of the elements I enjoy in a novel — a World War II background with a...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ: A fascinating look at historical characters
Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis, is one of the most famous names in medicine. His break through research led to major changes in the...
View ArticleMSU staff reads banned books as part of 'Read Out' event
STARKVILLE — In protest of censorship, Mississippi State University Libraries leaders organized a “Read-Out” for faculty and staff to share sections of historically suppressed books. As part of MSU’s...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Buckle up for a wild ride in the Jackson drug scene
Fasten your seatbelt before delving into Philip Shirley’s second work of fiction, The White Lie. It’s a crime thriller that quickly pulls the reader in for a wild ride. Drug lords in Jackson,...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Food snob spends dying hours looking for best flavor of his life
We can usually say that if you like one book by an author, you will like others by that same author. I’m not sure that’s the case with Gourmet Rhapsody, written by the author of The Elegance of the...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — War brides' true stories are meaningful and inspiring
This book tells the compelling stories of four English women who married American servicemen during World War II and immigrated to the U.S. when the war was over. Being addicted to books about WW II,...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ: Reading and cooking with a famous Mississippi playwright is fun
In my family, books flow back and forth as gifts for various occasions, and we usually read the books before giving them away. That means you have to be careful and keep the book in its clean,...
View ArticleAlabama agency closes Harper Lee elder-abuse investigation
MONTGOMERY — An investigation into potential elder-abuse of author Harper Lee — sparked by the surprising announcement that she would publish a new book — is closed, with no findings of any abuse,...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Narcissistic fashion world background for tale of friendship
This award-winning book is an odd story — sometimes twisted — that compels the reader to continue to the end. First published in 2005 and again in 2006, it’s the story of a 20-year friendship between...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Plots, intrigue and murder at kindergarten? yes
I don’t know how to categorize this book. Well, yes, it’s fiction, but how do I describe it after that? At times while reading it, I thought it’s a spoof because of the word picture it paints of...
View ArticleBOOKBIZ — Books and travel in France can cure what ails you
All things Paris are of interest these days, but for some of us it’s always been that way. This book takes us on a voyage with Jean Perdu on his barge, the Literary Apothecary. For years he had it...
View ArticleBOOKBIZ — A seasoned therapist’s advice for a meaningful life
For many of us, the start of a new year brings the desire to engage in a little self-reflection, to change for the better, and to be the person we all believe we can be when we look deep down inside....
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Short novella full of drama and life lessons
Graham Greene was one of the most prolific — and to my mind, one of the best — writers in the English language. Among my favorites are The Quiet American, Travels with my Aunt and Our Man in Havana....
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — From the worst of circumstances, a tale of hope
Growing up in a small town in the Canadian province of Alberta, Amanda Lindhout dreamed of a life filled with travels to exotic places. After buying old issues of “National Geographic” from a local...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Adventure and romance come to life in beautiful colonial Kenya
Perhaps everyone is not enchanted by a story of colonial Kenya with daring deeds, excitement and romance. For those who are, Circling the Sun has it all…and then some. It’s the story of real life...
View ArticleJACK WEATHERLY: A British writer cottons to Mississippi, and vice versa
Richard Grant, a British expat, came to the nether regions of the Mississippi Delta, was quickly mesmerized and decided to write a book about what he saw and experienced. He vowed to relate his...
View ArticleThacker Mountain director
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the Oxford-based music and literature program, has hired Kate Teague as its new Executive Producer/Director. Teague is a 2015 Ole Miss graduate and Mobile, Ala....
View ArticleAlabama agency closes Harper Lee elder-abuse investigation
MONTGOMERY — An investigation into potential elder-abuse of author Harper Lee — sparked by the surprising announcement that she would publish a new book — is closed, with no findings of any abuse,...
View ArticleBOOK BIZ — Narcissistic fashion world background for tale of friendship
This award-winning book is an odd story — sometimes twisted — that compels the reader to continue to the end. First published in 2005 and again in 2006, it’s the story of a 20-year friendship between...
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