Off Square Books will host award-winning author Nate Blakeslee at 5 p.m. tonight for a signing of his newest book, “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West.” Blakeslee, a native Texan and writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, published “American Wolf” last month through Crown Publishing Group, and he is currently touring […]
Local author Jesmyn Ward’s fictional work “Sing, Unburied, Sing” carefully crafts a story of the dead that speaks for the dying. The novel received the 2017 National Book Award, making Ward the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction. In this novel of fear and familial love, Ward brings to bear a […]
Amy Fluker, visiting assistant professor of history, will deliver a lecture titled “The Bell Witch of Mississippi: Slavery and the Supernatural” at noon today in the Faulkner Room of the J.D. Williams Library. Amy Fluker is primarily interested in the 19th-century United States, and two of her main focuses are collective memory and the Civil War […]
Rowan Oak’s pasture fences will come down Thursday evening to make room for the University of Mississippi Museum’s sixth annual Harvest Supper. The Harvest Supper dinner and art auction takes place every year on the grounds of William Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak. The event is the museum’s main fundraiser. A significant portion of money raised by […]
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