Mississippi
Fallen Comrade
Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War presents an account of three young men from Clinton, Mississippi, who served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. Waller King, Joe Albritton, and Homer ...
Watershed
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing
The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, ...
What Became of Dr. Smith
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Visual Arts
Artist Noah Saterstrom (b. 1974) grew up aware of a mystery in his family’s story. No living relatives knew what had h ...
Paddleways of Mississippi
Chosen as Mississippi's 2025 Great Read for Adults by the Mississippi Center for the Book
Mississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state’s geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and p ...
Beyond Control
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the ...
Outliving the White Lie
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction
Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts ...
The Delta in the Rearview Mirror
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing
After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back ...
Deep Inside the Blues
Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, C ...
Rowdy Boundaries
Dwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories. In Rowdy Boundaries: True ...
Backseat Quarterback
Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than ...