A collection of over one thousand of Mississippi’s most popular recipes

Anecdotes and lore about a notorious zone in the Mississippi Piney Woods

The rollicking history of a dreaded real-life figure in the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods

Interviews with Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Spencer, Barry Hannah, and Beth Henley

Interviews with Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Whitehead, and Turner Cassity

Fiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

A richly detailed outline of William Faulkner’s life and career written by an eminent French scholar

The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights

Nonfiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

A collection of essays analyzing and emphasizing the origins, strategies, creative tensions, and politics of the Civil Rights Movement

Collected interviews with the author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie.

Collected interviews with the legendary twentieth-century author

The contributors to this collection consider questions debated for many decades in Faulkner studies and those recently raised to prominence under the illuminating ray of feminist criticism

Collected interviews with the author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider; Flowering Judas; and The Leaning Tower

Interviews with the author of Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Everything That Rises Must Converge

A common-sense guide to gardening in the Magnolia Zone written by Mississippi’s favorite philosopher on good gardening

Gathers interviews with the Tennessee short story writer in which he discusses his career, writing, character development themes, settings, and growing older

For all readers a spectacular book combining the arts of illustration and narrative

Conversations with the genre-bending creator of The Naked and the Dead, Executioner's Song, and Armies of the Night

An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the U.S., the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo

An astonishing book that reveals the Confederacy’s role in the death of Lincoln

A biographical portrait of an exceptional Confederate military figure

Two of Welty’s finest stories, “Moon Lake” and “June Recital,” enhanced by twenty black-and-white illustrations by Mildred Nungester Wolfe

The first comprehensive anthology of American women’s humorous writings, a collection that reclaims the tradition of female humor in America, from witty observations in the eighteenth century to humorous essays of contemporary women

The contributors, authorities on Faulkner’s narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner’s fiction-writing process

A fine black cook's recipes from a hardscrabble heritage and its ritual of surviving and rejoicing in family values

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

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.

These essays seek out the influence of popular culture upon the Nobel Prize author and note forays into the pop culture world.

Talks with the prize-winning author of Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, July's People, The Pickup, and many other books