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
Conversations with Raymond Carver
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore
A classic book covering almost every aspect of the black folk experience, collecting writings by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, and many others
Conversations with Reynolds Price
Interviews with the famed southern novelist and commentator
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
Garrison Keillor
A Voice of America
A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon’s favorite son and contemporary America’s favorite humorist
The Comics
Insights into the aesthetics of one of popular culture’s favorite art forms
Cajun Country
A sensitive, comprehensive study providing the broadest look at traditional Cajun culture ever assembled
Mississippi Writers
Reflections of Childhood and Youth: Volume IV: Drama
Drama recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
Collected interviews with the author of The Light in the Piazza, For Lease or Sale, and Fire in the Morning