Most every year I put together an “End of Year” list that mainly includes books I’ve read, and sometimes movies…
Susan will be speaking about her short story collection FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, (all of which is set in Mississippi)…
Mississippi’s Literary Lawn Party If you read my post from July 22, you know how excited I was to be…
Mississippi’s Literary Lawn Party On August 21 I will again be a panelist at the Mississippi Book Festival in my…
Jackson, Mississippi, 1960s and ’70s I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1950s and ’60s, and for a few…
A Lighter Taste of Ekphrastic Writing If you missed my post from January 12, please click here to read Jean…
We don’t even know. Today I finished reading one of the most powerful memoirs I’ve ever read. Ever. I am…
This week has been busy with WRITING! I just finished the tenth and final story for my linked short story…
The 2018 Mississippi Book Festival is this Saturday, August 18! Here’s the SCHEDULE. This will be my second year…
When I read Kathryn’s Stockett’s book, The Help—set in my home town of Jackson, Mississippi—and then watched the movie, with…