University Press of Mississippi

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. ...

UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced
On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To ...

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Praise for Lost Plantations of the South
John Sledge had a great piece in yesterday's Mobile Press-Register about Marc Matrana's latest book, Lost Plantations of the South. Matrana's book is an illustrated history of grand plantation homes that have been lost to war, disaster, and neglect. Sledge notes that Matrana's exploration of plan...

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The magazine for high-minded lowlifes. Based in Chicago and New York, STOP SMILING is an artist-friendly, artist-run bimonthly magazine of words, pictures, illustrations and design.

Happy Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow. Some people, mostly children and the parents that steal their candy, count this among their favorite holidays. But not everyone goes all in for candy and costumes. For our readers who don't feel like trick-or-treating or dressing up or even a trip to the video store, we sa...

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For our readers who don't feel like trick-or-treating or dressing up or even a trip to the video store, we say there is no shame in staying home with a good book. In fact, UPM has several titles that will still keep you in spirit of the holiday:

A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the Old South? A notorious county that seceded from the Confederacy? This is how Jones County, Mississippi, is known in myth and legend.

Photographic guide to Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, this Web site also hosts important collections of photographs documenting the Vietnamese culture on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ...

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Few movie directors are as forthcoming on the screen and as reticent in the press as David Lynch. He tends to keep his cards close to the vest in order to preserve the mysterious quality of such fever-dream pictures as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Dr. ...

The Louisiana Center for the Book, State Library of Louisiana, proudly presents the seventh annual Louisiana Book Festival, Louisiana's FREE, world-class literary celebration. Offering unique opportunities ...

Jack Reed Still Finding Time to Speak
Yesterday UPM author Jack Reed read from his book and shared his experiences during the "History is Lunch" program sponsored by Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Reed's book, A Time to Speak, brings together more than a dozen of Reed's speeches over a fifty-year period (...

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Jack Reed is the author of "A Time to Speak: Speeches by Jack Reed. Jack is seen here talking about and reading from his book at "History is Lunch" sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. For more information on the book visit www.upress.state.ms.us