#mississippi author

[gooch-cancer]

just discovered that donna tartt is from my family's hometown and WENT TO MY COUSINS SCHOOL

i'm losing my mind i'm utterly losing it THATS WHY HER ACCENT WAS SO FAMILIAR WHEN I LISTENED TO TSH AUDIOBOOK!!!!

[rebelyells]

The greatest writer in world history supported the Southern Cause. Charles Dickens

Merry Christmas everyone from the man who invented Christmas.

Moving forward on the historical timeline, Charles Dickens watched the American Civil War unfold by following the news of the day as it reached England. Remembering his experiences and disgust over the copyright issues and greedy businessmen, Dickens implicitly supported the South, suggesting that the Northern calls for abolition merely masked a desire for some type of economic gain.[vii] Though startled by Southern slavery during his 1842 visit, he darkly suggested a lack of abolitionist fervor from the Union preservers, remarking in a private letter, “They will both rant and lie and fight until they come to a compromise; and the slave may be thrown into that compromise or thrown out of it, just as it happens.”[viii] Clearly, Dickens had formed dark opinions of the United States economically and morally – some of which had historical foundation

https://emergingcivilwar.com/author/sarahkaybierle/

[motivateandinspiretoday]

Merry Christmas from J.W. Worsham and family! We wish each of you a Merry Christmas. When looking for a local Mississippi author, we would love to share this Brothers Divided with you. It is available online at Walmart, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes Better World Books, Book Depository, Alibris, Books a Million, and it's downloadable for Kindle, Nook, and iBooks. Order your copy today. Thank you for your support. MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Jon and Jake grew up in a small town in Mississippi where everyone knows everyone. Most everyone in the town went to church on Sunday mornings while they were growing up. When the brothers got older and left town, things in the small town began to change. Jon got married and moved back to the small town with his wife and young son. He came back to help out on the family farm. He was enjoying life with his family. Jake made it big in Las Vegas by working as a casino floor manager. He was living the high life. One day, his boss offered him the chance of a lifetime, but he would have to move back to the small town. This move could be more costly than Jake ever imagined.

#MerryChristmas #JesusIsBorn #JesusLovesYou #Christmas #BrothersDivided #JWWorsham #Jesus #Family #Faith #brothers #wife #wivesandmothers #casino #farmlife #Bible

[gas-stxtion-a]

//so jerry canonically has a mississippi area code phone number.... okay. filing that away.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Ellen Douglas

Josephine Ayres Haxton, better known by her pen name, Ellen Douglas, was born in 1921 in Natchez, Mississippi. Douglas' first novel, A Family's Affairs, was published in 1961. She won an O. Henry Prize for her short story "On the Lake", and her novel Apostles of Light was a finalist for the 1974 National Book Award. In 2008, Douglas received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

Ellen Douglas died in 2012 at the age of 91.

[crave-mp3]

still thinking about that unreal unearth review that said it was "about as thoughtful as bullet points on a freshman year Great Books syllabus [, which] scan as a naked ploy for depth" and complaining about allusions to the atlas myth on icarian (bc apparently the quota is One mythological imagery per song),,,,, while deriding the line "you were frozen like an angel to me"--a reference to an actual scene in the Inferno (lucifer the fallen angel being trapped in a pit of ice)--as "an incoherent mix of metaphors". congrats on failing to recognize that reference dude. maybe you should have read a little further than that Great Books syllabus

[lindaseccaspina]

There’s Just Something About Mary ---Linda Seccaspina-- Carleton Place Living

From the third issue of Carleton Place Living The new issue of Carleton Place Living is out. Some of you will receive yours in your mailbox ( goes toover 2600 local citizens etc etc and if you want to subscribe or advertise.. Contact Brock Zeman email-bzeman@bestversionmedia.com or call 613-795-6833 When I moved to Carleton Place in 1981 I didn’t fully know who Mary Cook was. I invited her to…

[into-ition]

This is for an EXTREMELY niche audience but Barry Hannah and Flannery O’Connor are male and female parallels of the highest fucking order

[ideverest]

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[thevellaunderground]

Mississippi Bones

by Kim Riehle (Author) As posted by the author on Kindle Vella. Mississippi Bones is the harrowing adventure of Molly and Sadie, two orphaned runaways who make their way across rural Western Pennsylvania in the spring of 1889. During their journey, they encounter the Pennsylvania Dutch people, a barn haunted by the ghost of a previous caretaker, and the men who murdered Molly’s family. Them…

[cosybookclub]

Cat in the Stacks Mysteries

There's a cat in the stacks... and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian-turned-sleuth.

Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows librarian Charlie Harris - and his Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former classmate-turned-famous bestselling novelist, Godfrey Priest.

But someone in Athena took Godfrey off the bestseller lists - permanently, and with extreme prejudice. Now, Charlie and Diesel must browse through the history section of the town's past to find a killer.

[joncronshawauthor]

🧟‍♂️ Writing Updates & Literary Ventures | Author Diary - May 19, 2024 📚🎶

📝 “Punks Versus Zombies” Progress:This week, I’ve been busy with the “Punks Versus Zombies” series, successfully writing episode 38 and drafting the first version of episode 39. Each episode brings new challenges and twists, keeping the series fresh and thrilling. ✍️ “Wyvern Rider” Redrafting:I’m currently redrafting “Wyvern Rider,” a story close to my heart. I’m excited to announce that I will…

[thecatsreaderslibrary]

Lyon Literary Marketing & Cats Book Library Welcomes Our Newest Author, Anthony Weathers, and His Book Release, "Why Ruin Another Life" For Readers To Enjoy. . .

My Captivation story is based on Hattie, a main charcter from my book “Why Ruin Another Life, which is set in the 1950s in black Mississippi. It is a story extending three generations, examining how obe event or one person, Hattie, had a tremendous impact, affecting lives for years to come. Hattie, a southern black woman, sets off a chain of unraveling events, causing a domino effect. This…

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

[finishinglinepress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: The Mercies of Perry County by Juliet Hinton

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Until now Perry County has not been included on the literary map of #Mississippi. My debut collection of #poems changes that atlas. These poems, some historical, other’s lyrics, record the topography of my memory of this county where I grew up filled with stern pine trees, fields dense with corn, snakes and blood, cheating husbands and wives, tobacco and hate chewing men, chinaberry trees, catfish, cows pasturing in trees, and mud pies cooked in an old wood stove, and dark souls that are still with me. My poems emerge from a feminine vision found in Southern letters from Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Flannery O’Connor and Jesmyn Ward. As the trees in the Pine Belt speak with voices you do not always want to hear, these poems give voice to the mercies and miseries. The trees refuse to be silent them. Nor do these poems.

Juliet Hinton born and raised in Perry County, MS. She has worked in the oldest Cancer Registry and Cancer Program in the state of Mississippi for the last twenty-two years. She has appeared in the Delta Poetry Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Valley Voices Literary Review, and other journals. In January 2022, she received Pushcart Prize Nomination “Calvary Baptist Church”. She lives with her family and cow-herding dog that drives them to do her bidding and walk in the local park.

PRAISE FOR The Mercies of Perry County by Juliet Hinton

Juliet Hinton uses her poetic gifts to portray the land, people, and culture of her home county deep in Mississippi’s Piney Woods. In poems with strong metaphors and character, Hinton evolves both the tragedies and triumphs of a Southern woman. This is a must-have for any library or individual’s shelf that want to enrich their collections in Southern literature and history.

–Cynthia Hudson, Director, Pine Forest Regional Library, Richton, MS

In her stunning debut collection, Juliet Hinton proves that she is a skilled poet who can stir her readers’ imagination about the various Souths of her native Perry County, Mississippi. Many of her poems are haunted by the dark memories of a rough South of grit, hard work logging, farming, cattle raising as well as brawling, cheating, drinking, scaring cruelty, and an overpowering nature gone wild. But some of her poems are limned with lyrical splendor about Perry County history, family, forests, and fields, cows and birds, baptisms in cold water creeks, church suppers and young love. I predict many other successful titles from Hinton and await them with eagerness.

–Philip C. Kolin, Distinguished Professor of English (Emeritus), Editor Emeritus, The Southern Quarterly, University of Southern Mississippi

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[uwmspeccoll]

Cannupa Hanska Luger, New Myth, Future Technologies, 2021

Dana Claxton, Headdress-Jeneen, 2018

Teresa Baker, Hidatsa Red, 2022

Raven Chacon, For Zitkala Sa Series, 2019

Caroline Monnet, Echoes from a near future, 2022

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Calling Sky World), 2021

Anna Tsouhlarakis, The Native Guide Project, 2019

Meryl McMaster, Harbourage for a Song, 2019

Marie Watt, Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward), 2021

Staff Pick of the Week

An Indigenous Present proposes that a book can be a space for community engagement through the transcultural gathering of more than sixty contemporary Indigenous and Native artists. Published by BIG NDN Press and Delmonico Books in 2023, An Indigenous Present was conceived of and edited by Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) over the course of nearly two decades. 

In Gibson’s own words, “An Indigenous Present celebrates the work of visual artists, musicians, poets, choreographers, designers, filmmakers, performance artists, architects, collectives, and writers whose work offers fresh starting lines for Native and Indigenous art. But the book does not attempt comprehensiveness. Rather, those included here are makers I admire, have collaborated with or been inspired by, and who’ve challenged my thinking. . . . These artists and what they make will guide us to Indigenous futurities authored by us in unabashedly Indigenous ways.”  

An Indigenous Present features over 400 pages of color photographs, poetry, essays, and interviews resulting in a stunning visual experience for readers and a shift towards more inclusive art systems. The front cover art shown here is by Canadian artist Caroline Monnet entitled Indigenous Represent. 

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern