The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Conversations with Robert Graves
The Soul of Southern Cooking
A fine black cook’s recipes from a hardscrabble heritage and its ritual of surviving and rejoicing in family values
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
Comic Books as History
The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar
This first full-length scholarly study of comic books as a narrative form attempts to explain why comic books, traditionally considered to be juvenile trash literature, have in the 1980s been used by serious artists to tell realistic stories for adults
Comics as Culture
These ten essays by one of America’s foremost authorities on popular culture survey the influence of the comic strip and, despite the legions of detractors, show it to be an art form that has enriched and reflected most of American culture.
Faulkner and Popular Culture
These essays seek out the influence of popular culture upon the Nobel Prize author and note forays into the pop culture world.
Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
Talks with the prize-winning author of Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, July’s People, The Pickup, and many other books