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Book SynopsisThis collection allows readers to observe Elizabeth Spencer’s evolving style while offering glimpses of the moral reasoning that lies at the heart of all her work. Greene’s critical introduction helpfully places these narratives within the context of Spencer’s entire body of writing.

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Book SynopsisProvides a peek into a world struggling through the civil rights movement, reeling from the death of JFK, and cutting loose with the musical innovations from Memphis and Detroit. This story, marked with tragedy and triumph, mirrors that of a growing and evolving South, where change never comes easy.

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Book SynopsisPresents fourteen interviews that cover the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well.

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Book SynopsisBased on Stewart Butler’s own personal papers, including hundreds of letters, and dozens of interviews, Political Animal paints an intimate portrait of a legendary figure in gay politics and the times in which he lived.

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Book SynopsisTraces how Louisiana Gulf Coast shrimpers negotiate land and blood, sea and freedom, and economic security and networks of control. This book explores what ties shrimpers to their boats and nets. Despite feeling trapped by finances and circumstances, they have created a world in which they have agency.

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Book SynopsisBrings together interviews from newspapers, magazines, and podcasts conducted throughout Joe R. Lansdale’s career. The collection includes conversations between Lansdale and other noted peers like Robert McCammon and James Grady; two podcast transcripts that have never before appeared in print; and a brand-new interview, exclusive to the volume.

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Book SynopsisThe Mississippi Preventorium was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. Now closed, the preventorium housed over three thousand children, including Susan Annah Currie. In this memoir, Currie details her fifteen-month stay at the preventorium, explores the unique and isolating world that she and other children experienced.

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Book SynopsisCollects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears Terrence McNally reflect on theatre as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theatre industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theatre over McNally’s fifty-plus year career.

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Book SynopsisThe conversations compiled in this volume mark the filmmaker’s progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi - either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced.

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Book SynopsisThe lower Mississippi River winds past the city of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called ‘the batture’. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising.

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Book SynopsisTells remarkable and wildly entertaining anecdotal stories told through the lens of an entertainment industry insider. Bambi Moe’s fascinating true stories provide a rare insight into the creative process associated with music in animation and give readers a historical reference to the Walt Disney Company’s burgeoning direct-to-video empire.Trade ReviewWhat makes Part of the Magic so marvelous is Bambi’s resilient sense of wonder despite working for decades in a decidedly cynical industry. Her candid recollections of some of Hollywood’s greatest luminaries are the stuff of legends. Part of the Magic makes you feel as if you are traveling hand-in-hand with your very own Disney heroine bestie—and the adventure is a thrill." —Susan Egan, Broadway and animation actress and producer"The most beautiful thing about Part of the Magic is that it is a labor of love, a testimony of Bambi’s passion for her work. In the end, we’ll all say that WE were the ones who had the fortunate brush with greatness, the greatness of Bambi Moé." —Heather Headley, Tony and Grammy Award–winning performer"Part of the Magic reveals the lovely, talented people whose collaborations made the music behind some of Disney Studios’ great film projects. Bambi Moé reminds readers of the relationships, the research, and the hard work that go into producing successful results. Disney Studios was lucky to have her, and readers are lucky to share in these stories." —Shannon Farnon, the original voice of Wonder Woman"Part of the Magic is a one-of-a-kind self-portrait of a woman whose dedication to bringing talented artists together resulted in game-changing, landmark works that stand the test of time. Never-before-heard insights abound, answering those two most tantalizing insider questions: ‘What was it like to create this?’ and the ever-compelling, ‘What were they like?’" —Greg Ehrbar, entertainment writer, commentator, and coauthor of Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records

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Book SynopsisChronicles the fortunate life of a man born in the Cajun country of Louisiana and his interaction with the three distinct parts of his home state: the swampy, laissez-faire South where he was born, the red clay hills and piney woods of northern Louisiana where his relatives lived, and exotic New Orleans, where he was educated.

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Book SynopsisJerry Ward Jr has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. He is also a respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature. This volume offers an account of Ward’s responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writing, civil rights, Black aesthetics, race and culture.

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Book SynopsisInterviews allowed Tim O’Brien to fully examine the boundaries of truth and identity, memory, and imagination in fiction; the role of war in society; gender issues; and the craft of writing. He approaches each of these topics and a host of others with a directness and an evident passion that will resonate with both readers and prospective writers.

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Book SynopsisLuke Kabat became one of more than seven hundred student volunteers who joined experienced Black civil rights workers and clergy to challenge white supremacy in the US’s most segregated state. rawing on a wealth of primary resources, his sister delves into her family history to understand Luke’s motivations and documents his experiences.

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Book SynopsisTells how one woman reckons with both a region’s history and her own past. Through a lens ranging from intimate to the widely human, through moments painful and darkly comic, Ellen Ann Fentress casts a penetrating light on what it means to be a white southern woman today.Trade ReviewIn The Steps We Take, Fentress holds a mirror to the archetype (or stereotype) of the helpful, ever-cheerful, and often self-deceiving southern white woman. What results is a meaningful examination of whiteness and womanhood, privilege and charity, all baked into the author’s story of personal transformation." - Lauren Rhoades, host of Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Mississippi Arts Hour"Fentress’s book is an attempt not only to tell her story but to offer a way forward from the blindness and consequent harm caused by the easy acceptance of inequality in American society. Always the hope is that exposure to such earnest stories will persuade others toward the type of self-reflection and change in individual attitudes and behaviors that will move the needle on America’s racial and gender issues in positive directions." - Paulette Boudreaux, author of Mulberry: A Novel"In this arresting and clear-eyed memoir of help offered and help denied, Ellen Ann Fentress lays bare the southern systems that pollute our best impulses: Christian coercion, entrenched racial hierarchies, and unrelenting female self-sacrifice. While the message is stark and at times heartbreaking, the messenger is Fentress's confessional, warm, and often hilarious prose. Reading The Steps We Take, I felt both exposed and embraced, as after any honest conversation with a true friend." - Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Everlasting: A Novel and The Weeds: A Novel

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. These popular performers, many of whom graduated out of the big bands of the 1940s, impacted popular music in a huge way.Trade ReviewAuthors have long neglected the fabulous females of the fifties, but Steve Bergsman makes up for that neglect with this fascinating, fact-filled book. All I Want Is Loving You fills a major gap in pop music history and Bergsman is the author who should fill it." - Peter Benjaminson, author of The Story of Motown, Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar

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Book SynopsisHighlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, who made one or two great records and then disappeared from the scene.Trade ReviewA singular look and fully researched account of the women singers who were trailblazers in the early 1950s as R&B evolved into rock ’n’ roll." - Aaron Cohen, author of Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power and Aretha Franklin's 'Amazing Grace'"An encyclopedic history that conveys important contributions of individual artists as well as the collective body of women singers." - Frank Matheis, contributing writer for Living Blues, publisher of thecountryblues.com, and coauthor of Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues

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Book SynopsisHere at last is the complete story of Dana Andrews (19091992): a great actor who struggled to overcome alcoholism while enjoying the accolades of his contemporaries, a successful term as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the love of family and friends that never deserted him.

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Book SynopsisThe African American Great Migration novel emerged as a popular mode of fiction in the 1920s. Not surprisingly, the decade that saw both the Harlem Renaissance as well as the thunderous onset of the Jazz Age also provided the backdrop for Black migrant stories of personal triumph and transformation set in the symbolically potent urban landscape of America's iconic cityscapes. While these novels represented the powerful symbol of the northern city as a proverbial Promised Land, they also reflected the urban pastoral conflict that defined the Black migrant experience. These novels marshaled a variant of the urban pastoral mode that historian Michael Denning has termed the "ghetto pastoral." In Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels, Donald M. Shaffer advances Denning's concept of the ghetto pastoral to examine the ideological tension between rural and urban modes of experience in these novels. Through close readings of Paul Laurence Dunbar's Sport of the Gods, James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Walter White's Flight, Jean Toomer's Cane, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Shaffer demonstrates how these texts destabilize concepts of race and identity even as they attempt to locate "Blackness" in the spaces and places of the northern city. Shaffer traces the historical and critical link between racial uplift novels of the late nineteenth century and Black modernist novels of the mid-twentieth century. This work thus examines a key figure of African American modernity: the liminal Black migrant standing at the proverbial crossroads of southern folk culture and the transformative cultural spaces of the northern city. This figure defines not only a generation of Black artistic expression but also stands as the culmination of the African American literary tradition.

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