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The 17th Oxford Conference for the Book, set for March 4–6, 2010, will be dedicated to Barry Hannah, one of Mississippi’s most distinguished contemporary writers. The author of nine novels and four collections of short stories, and the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Institute of Arts and Letters, Hannah is writer in residence and director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Mississippi. Four sessions on Saturday will discuss his fiction, teaching, and life, and Hannah will be in the spotlight on Thursday afternoon during John Grisham’s talk on “Literary Oxford” and at Thacker Mountain Radio. The conference will begin at the J. D. Williams Library at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday with lunch and a keynote address by Nicholas A. Basbanes, described by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and historian David McCullough as “the leading authority of books about books.” The first session on Thursday afternoon will be a Celebration of National Poetry Month, with poets Mark Jarman, a professor at Vanderbilt University, and E. Ethelbert Miller, of Washington, D.C., reading their work. Beth Ann Fennelly, a poet who teaches at the University of Mississippi, and Jon Parrish Peede, director of literature at the National Endowment for the Arts, will make comments during the celebration. During the next session, at 2:30 p.m., journalist Curtis Illustrating 2010 Oxford Conference for the Book materials is Wilkie will discuss the topic “Writing about Politics” with Maude Schuyler Clay’s 1985 photograph of Barry Hannah. The Hendrick Hertzberg and Todd S. Purdum. Hertzberg, se- photograph is reproduced on posters and T-shirts available from nior editor and staff writer for the New Yorker, is the au- the Center by calling 800-390-3527. thor of Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966–2004 and ¡Obamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era. Purdum, nation- Call 662-925-5993 al editor of Vanity Fair since 2006, worked for 23 years at the New York Times where his last assignment was as a diplomatic or visit and White House correspondent in the Washington Bureau. www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com John Grisham will be welcomed by Chancellor Daniel W. for more information or to register for conference programs. continued on page 15 the D i r e c t o r ’ s C o l u m n

The start of the new year almost always encourages thinking about what’s Published Quarterly by new. It is the season for students to apply to graduate schools and for current stu- The Center for the Study of Southern Culture dents to start thinking about graduating. It is also a good time to learn outside the The University of Mississippi classroom. In February and March, one can receive a pretty solid education simply Telephone: 662-915-5993 by attending free events on and off campus. In February, the Center will cohost the Fax: 662-915-5814 E-mail: [email protected] Porter Fortune Jr. History Symposium, this year in partnership with the Future of www.olemiss.edu/depts/south the South Conference, on the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Then in early March the Oxford Conference for the Book brings together writers, readers, editors, IN THIS ISSUE and others, especially those interested in featured writer Barry Hannah. The Early Winter 2010 Wright Keynote blues lecture by author Tony Bolden will be later in March, a few 1 2010 Oxford Conference for the Book hours before a Cassandra Wilson concert. Campus is full of Black History Month 2 Director’s Column and Women’s History Month events, and off campus, the Oxford Film Festival, 3 Living Blues Celebrates 40th Year the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, and the meeting of the Mississippi 4 February Symposium on “Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi” Historical Society are all scheduled during the next few months. 4 Early History and Culture Conference The start of a new year is also, for good or bad, a season of lists. I write in early 4 Bolden Is 2010 Early Wright Lecturer January at a time when everyone who writes a column seems to be required to write 5 Southern Studies Alumni and Faculty a list of best and worst things of the past year (or past decade), what’s hot, what’s not, Photography Exhibition what’s underrated, and the like. Since I write a column, I suppose I have an obliga- 5 Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule tion to offer a list, although I would suggest that anyone looking to a middle-aged 6 Films on Center’s Web Site academic for suggestions about what’s hot is looking in the wrong place. 6 SST Alum Steve Cheseborough 7 F&Y 2010: “Faulkner and Film” I can only offer a list of some of the most notable developments of the past decade 8 Southern Studies Alumni News among Southern historians. Of course I do not read anywhere close to everything or 8 Herring on All Things Considered in every subspecialty within Southern history, but this seems a good start to consid- 9 Walter Anderson and World Literature ering what trends have been particularly meaningful and exciting (if not necessarily 10 Books by Southern Studies Faculty hot) in the field in the past 10 years. Some changes are continuations or culmina- 11 Summer School in Germany: “The South tions of developments from previous years, others are brand new, and others are al- in Global Perspectives” ready facing challenges. 11 Southern Studies Faculty on the Road (1) Constructing, making, and defining. Perhaps nothing in the past decade or so 12 2010 Delta Literary Tour Schedule 13 Deltalogy 101: Thomas on Delta Tour has been as influential as the argument that concepts, ideas, arguments, assumptions 14 Creative Writing Workshop, March 3 about race, blackness, whiteness, gender, nation, region, and lots of other ideas are 15 Basbanes to Give Keynote Address constructions (sometimes referred to as “mere constructions”) that some people use 18 Howorth on Hannah to support existing social relations, to try to make them seem natural and normal, or 20 The Write Stuff for Kids to subvert or at least complicate those social relations. Despite suggestions that this 21 University Press of Mississippi at 40 movement was not as revolutionary as it seemed and some concerns that its tenden- 22 Southern Arts Federation Workshops cy toward theory made it dense for nonspecialists, I suspect that more Southern his- 23 O’Connors Offer Book & Author Publicity Session torians than ever are studying construction and deconstruction. 24 MIAL’s Awards, Nominations (2) The global South. An idea that once seemed to threaten the significance of 25 Reading the South: Reviews & Notes Southern history, the goal of studying the South as part of global networks of peo- 28 Eudora Welty Awards ple, products, ideas, and information, has actually made Southern history bigger, 30 William Anderson Exhibition more exciting, and more meaningful. Beyond simply emphasizing what was already 30 Notes on Contributors obvious—you have to study the South in the context of European and African his- 31 Southern Foodways Alliance News tory—this movement encourages new questions outside North-South comparisons, 36 Southern Culture Catalog Items and better study of continuing international exchanges involving everything from 40 Address Section/Mailing List Form/ Friends Information and Form Wal-Mart to global Pentecostalism to migrant workers. (3) Gender studies and women’s studies. The past decade has been a good time for REGISTER STAFF gender scholars, who have examined the construction of the concept, the intersec- Editor: Ann J. Abadie tions of gender and race, and gender differences in labor, health, legal status, and Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee politics. And women’s history seemed for some time to be in decline as a form of Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth what critics called “contribution history,” but it’s back, with a broader agenda, nu- Editorial Assistant: Sally Cassady Lyon merous women’s history collections, conferences, and new work. Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group (4) Respectability and uplift. One way gender studies has changed Southern history is through works that see respectability and uplift as political strategies for African The University complies with all applicable laws regard- ing affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its ac- Americans, especially in the Jim Crow period, to reject harmful stereotypes and to tivities and programs and does not discriminate against pursue new possibilities. The construction of respectability has become a theme in anyone protected by law because of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or status as a veteran other fields as well, as scholars detail how people claimed that certain types of cloth- or disabled veteran. ing, manners, education, and language were respectable and others were not.

Page 2 Winter 2010 The Southern Register (5) Indians. For too long, most Southern historians left Indians to anthropologists and archaeologists. Even worse, those histo- Living Blues rians too often left Indians out of their classes, at least after the first week. In the past decade or two, historians have joined the anthropologists in including American Indians as they rethink Celebrates 40th Year the history of the agriculture, slavery, the meaning of the frontier, and other topics, and they no longer stop with the Trail of Tears. The year 2010 will be a (6) The slave trade. Several of the most important recent big one for Living Blues as works on slavery have studied the slave trade, both the inter- the magazine celebrates its national and the internal trade, including the American Indian 40th anniversary. Each is- trade. Part of seeing how slavery changed in response to vari- sue of the magazine will ous challenges, this scholarship has studied the slave trade as a feature a look back at some changing economic process, as a moral, political, and legal is- of the stories and features sue, and as a powerful institution in certain American cities. over the past four decades. (7) Memory. In the past decade, a number of influential Our eighth annual Blues books have studied how groups and individuals understood Today Symposium will be or constructed the past for its politics, ethics, and aesthet- held March 26 in Oxford ics. Much of this scholarship has studied the Civil War and and feature University Reconstruction, but others have studied memory and the civil of Kansas scholar Tony rights movement, agriculture, violence, and other topics. Bolden as our esteemed (8) Civil rights scholarship: local studies and white Southerners’ keynote speaker for the responses. In the 1990s, some major books emphasized that it Early Wright Lecture. was local people more than well-known national leaders who Past keynotes have included authors Paul provided the energy and focus of the movement. Since then Oliver, Samuel Chambers, and Bill Ferris. (See Bolden article numerous scholars have studied the civil rights movement in on page 4 of this issue.) The symposium will conclude with a individual places to study the particulars of how they defined performance by Cassandra Wilson at the Gertrude Castellow issues and pursued goals. A second movement has widened the Ford Center on the University of Mississippi campus. All sym- range of white Southerners’ responses, with new books empha- posium lectures are free and open to the public, but tickets for sizing a variety of responses among ministers, journalists, busi- the Cassandra Wilson show must be purchased separately and nesspeople, women’s groups, and others. may be obtained by contacting the Ford Center box office at (9) The environment. Most Southern historians were slow 662-915-7411. to study the environment, but in the past decade the envi- On June 9 and 10, Living Blues teams with Dominican ronmental scholarship has become a lively field of Southern University in River Forest, Illinois, to present Blues and the history, with several important books on the landscape, labor, Spirit II: A Symposium on Chicago Blues and Gospel Music and law, and more to come. Commemorating the Centennial of Howlin’ Wolf’s Birth and (10) The end of social history, cultural history, and maybe po- the 40th Anniversary of Living Blues Magazine. The program litical history as separate subfields. When I applied for academic will include jobs in the 1980s, it was essential to describe myself as a type • Panels and presentations with blues and gospel scholars, of historian, and I called myself a social and cultural historian musicians, writers, and industry representatives. to differentiate my field from political, legal, and diplomatic • Special panel with the founding editors and contributors history. Most historians today, believing that parts of life are of Living Blues on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. essentially interconnected and using a broad definition of pol- (Early registrants will receive an original Vol.1, No. 1 edi- itics, do not need or want to make those distinctions. tion of Living Blues with Howlin’ Wolf on the cover.) If these are among the major trends among Southern histori- • Blues and the Spirit Awards honoring Barry Dolins, di- ans, what’s out (or not hot)? First, any question or line of argu- rector of the Chicago Blues Festival, and Howlin’ Wolf’s ment that begins and more or less ends with white Southerners as daughters, Bettye Kelly and Barbra Marks. the only Southerners under consideration is out. Second, ques- • Wednesday evening reception and pro jam with an all- tions about central themes or continuities are out. Many recent star array of blues musicians from Wolf’s generation and scholarly movements suggest that things worth studying are con- from the contemporary Chicago music scene. tingent, ever-changing, and open for multiple definitions, and • Thursday evening motor coach transportation and en- such an approach does not lead to discussion of central themes. trance to Chicago Blues Festival opening (tentative) and What’s coming? It is hard to speculate about how events will in- symposium after party at the legendary Rosa’s Lounge. tersect with scholarly production in the next decade. But here in Additional details and registration are available at www. Southern Studies, we can hope our interests in literature, history, dom.edu/blues. sociology, documentary studies, filmmaking and film studies, reli- A one-year subscription to Living Blues is $27.95 and may gion, gender studies, foodways, the blues, interdisciplinarity, ency- be purchased on our Web site: www.livingblues.com. A sample clopedias, and whatever we do next will be part of the story. copy of the magazine is also available. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] and request your free copy today! Ted Ownby Mark Camarigg

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 3 Symposium on “The Civil Rights Early American Movement in Mississippi” History and On February 18–20, the Porter Fortune Jr. History Symposium, which this year part- ners with the Center’s Future of the South Conference, will discuss the topic “The Culture Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.” The goal is both to learn new information and new perspectives about the Mississippi movement and also to consider how that his- Conference tory is important in thinking about education and movements among today’s young The 16th annual Omohundro Institute people. Sessions on Thursday and Friday, February 18 and 19, will feature new lectures of Early American History and Culture by scholars in history, political science, religion, and sociology, and they will conclude (OIEAHC) conference will be held by comments by John Dittmer, whose 1995 book Local People helped direct civil rights in Oxford, Mississippi, June 10–13, scholarship toward local activists in individual communities. On Saturday, those his- 2010. Bringing together scholars from torians will join activists, educators, and others for open-ended discussions about the throughout the entire United States, place the civil rights movement has in thinking about the future of the South. All the conference will be both wide-rang- events are free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. ing and eclectic. It will, however, focus heavily on issues of race and slavery in Thursday, February 18: all events in Johnson Commons Ballroom America and the Atlantic World. 9:30–11:00 a.m. Presentations by Emilye Crosby (SUNY Geneseo) and Michael Of particular interest to many attend- Williams (Mississippi State) ees will be three plenary sessions. The 1:00–2:30 p.m. Presentations by Francoise Hamlin (Brown) and Jelani first is devoted to the memory of Professor Favors (Morgan State) Winthrop Jordan, whose White Over 3:00–4:30 p.m. Presentations by Akinyele Umoja (Georgia State) and Wesley Black continues to receive accolades over Hogan (Virginia State) 40 years after it first appeared. Honoring Jordan will be Pulitzer Prize–winning Friday, February 19: all events in Johnson Commons Ballroom historian Annette Gordon-Reed, Sylvia 9:30–11:00 a.m. Presentations by David Cunningham (Brandeis) and Joseph Reiff Frey, and Peter Wood. Daniel Usner, of (Emory and Henry) Vanderbilt University, will lead a session 1:00–2:30 p.m. Presentations by Byron D’Andra Orey (Jackson State) and Chris dealing with Native Americans in ear- Myers Asch (U.S. Public Service Academy) ly Mississippi, and Charles Eagles, of the 3:00–4:00 p.m. Comments by John Dittmer (DePaul) University of Mississippi, will close the conference with a discussion of the “leg- Saturday, February 20: all events in Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory acy,” dealing with the integration of the 9:00–10:30 a.m. “Civil Rights Movement and Education”: Chauncey Spears University by James Meredith. (Mississippi Department of Education), Curtis Austin (Southern Mississippi), Rita All sessions are free and open to the Bender and Bill Bender (University of Mississippi) public. For further information, please 10:45 a.m.–noon “Civil Rights Movement and Youth”: Moderated by Nan Woodruff contact Sheila Skemp at sskemp@ole- (Penn State), a discussion with members of the Mississippi Truth Project, including miss.edu. Geoff Ward (California Riverside), Charles Tucker, and Diana Freelon Foster

Bolden Is 2010 Early Wright Lecturer is currently at work on a book- Blues Scholar Talks Funk length study that traces the history of the funk principle from its asso- On Friday, March 26, at 1:00 p.m., poet and scholar Tony ciation with the blues to its subse- Bolden will give the annual Early Wright Lecture at the quent manifestation in swing, soul, Center. Bolden, an associate professor of African and African funk (as such), and hip-hop. American Studies at the University of Kansas, was a panel- Bolden will be the eighth invit- ist in several of the early Blues Today Symposia sponsored ed guest to deliver the Early Wright by Living Blues. His lecture in March will be entitled “The Lecture, an endowed series creat- Epistemology of Blue/Funk.” ed in the name of Mississippi’s first “What I’m proposing to do,” says Bolden, “is provide a brief African American disc jockey, a overview of the early history of funk, particularly as it relates legend who spun blues records for to the blues idiom—Buddy Bolden, Bessie, Duke, as well as a decades on Clarksdale’s WROX. few literary texts that are pertinent to the discussion.” Bolden Wright’s colleague at RWOX, David Havens, established the is the author of Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American fund. Previous lecturers have included Stanley Crouch, Paul Poetry and Culture (2004) and the editor of The Funk Era and Oliver, Samuel Charters, and William Ferris. Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture (2008). He Adam Gussow

Page 4 Winter 2010 The Southern Register Southern Studies Alumni and Faculty Photography Exhibition

Photography has long been a lively images of and per- David Wharton part of the Southern Studies academ- spectives on the Scripture Reading be- ic program. Classes frequently ana- region. One of the fore a Baptism, Panola lyze Walker Evans photographs, Farm unique features County, Mississippi, 2008 Security Administration photographs, of the Southern civil rights photographs, and many oth- Studies Program ers as ways to understand the South and is that it has always had at least Elvis Devotee, Memphis, one documentary Tennessee, 2002 photographer on its faculty. The current exhibition in Barnard Observatory’s Gammill Gallery features the work of faculty members Ease. The photographs of Tom Rankin, and student alumni from the Southern now at Duke University, deal with peo- Studies Program. Assistant Professor ple in natural and perhaps wild settings and Director of Documentary Studies in Mississippi. Atlanta-based artist Lynn David Wharton will exhibit some of Marshall-Linnemeier (MA 2004) is con- his documentary photographs from the tributing work from her series entitled contemporary South, while Center Stereo Propaganda. MA graduate Kate Founding Director William Ferris has Medley (2007) has sent photographs made available some of the photographs documenting the effects of Hurricane of Mississippians, especially Mississippi Katrina, while the photographs of Joe musicians, he made in the 1960s and York (2006), some of which appeared 1970s. Some of Ferris’s photographs ap- in his book, With Signs Following, deal

David Wharton pear in his new book, Give My Poor Heart with religious themes along Southern roadsides. Southern Foodways Alliance oral historian Amy Evans Streeter (MA 2005) contributes portraits of some of her interview subjects. Photographers had the freedom to choose their own subjects. “We weren’t trying to have a theme,” said Center Director Ted Ownby. “The exhibition is one way of showing off the work of people associated with the Center. It Exhibition Schedule is especially good at showing the variety of interests and approaches. Some February 1–April 2, 2010 of the photographs are closer to art Back to the Center: photography, some are docu- Photographs by Southern Studies Alumni and Faculty mentary photographs, some William Ferris, Lynn Marshall-Linnemaier, Kate Medley, are both, and some may Tom Rankin, Amy Evans Streeter, David Wharton, and Joe York be something else. We’re happy to all of them April 5–June 15, 2010 up in one exhibit.” Work and Play: Photographs from the Southern Weekend The alumni exhib- Southern Studies Documentary Students it, free to the public, will run through April 2. The Gammill Gallery, located in Barnard Observatory, is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., except for University holidays. Telephone: 662-915-5993.

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 5 Films on Center’s Southern Studies Alum Steve Cheseborough If you’re affiliated with the Center for the Study of Southern Web Site Culture, it’s hard not to get excited (and a little smug) about The Center’s Web site, www.olemiss.edu/depts/south, is Steve Cheseborough (MA1999). This Southern Studies alum home to a growing collection of films available for anyone is the literal and figurative definition of a one-man band. He to watch. Over the years, an extraordinary number of lec- is a teacher, a freelance reporter, an author, and a solo blues tures, conversations, and other Center events have been artist who specializes in prewar, 1920s–’30s style blues music filmed, so making many of those events available to the and who has three albums under his belt. public will be an important new form of outreach. Growing up in Rochester, New York, meant Cheseborough Most of the material currently on the site comes from was more than a little sessions of the 2009 Oxford Conference for the Book removed from a blues that featured artist Walter Anderson. One can watch context. “My first ex- Walter Anderson biographer Christopher Maurer discuss posure to blues was Anderson’s creative life; a discussion JoAnne Prichard hearing groups like Morris led with the artist’s children John Anderson, Mary the Rolling Stones Anderson Pickard, and Leif Anderson; Patricia Pinson’s pre- and other British sentation on Anderson and world literature; and a discus- bluesy rock bands,” sion about Anderson among Seetha Srinivasan, Patti Carr Cheseborough says. Black, and William Dunlap. Other filmed sessions available “Then I wanted to on the site include a discussion of memoirs written after find out where they Hurricane Katrina, readings by Major Jackson and Deborah got their music from, Johnson, presentations by children’s authors Jay Asher and so I looked at their Trenton Lee Stewart; Peggy Whitman Prenshaw’s Eudora records, checked Welty Centennial Address; and panels on book reviewing the liner notes, and and contemporary literacy. saw that they got A recent addition was a conversation Charles Reagan songs from people Wilson had in July 2009 with Bishop Duncan M. Gray Jr. like Muddy Waters about religious and civil rights issues. The conversation fo- and Howlin’ Wolf cuses on Gray’s time as rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and others with cool in Oxford and his experience with the riots caused by James names who made Meredith’s enrollment at to the University of Mississippi. me want to go hear their music. Then I would try to figure out Plans for future filmed material on the site include stu- where their influences came from. I keep always trying to push dent films from Documentary Studies classes, other lectures it back and earlier and study earlier blues music and learn how and conversations, and many more conference sessions. to play it and figure it out.” The idea to digitize the films and put them on the Cheseborough began performing in rock bands when he was Center’s site came from filmmaker and Southern Studies a teenager and continued making music throughout and after alumnus Joe York, and funding came from the offices of the his college years. While in his 30s he starting playing around Liberal Arts Dean and the Vice Chancellor for University with the early blues style he is now known for, but he did not Relations. York oversaw the work of graduate assistants consider it to be a viable career option until a girlfriend heard Ben Gilstrap and Blount Montgomery, who have digitized him play and asked him to make a tape for her. “I think she countless hours of filmed material. just meant for me to turn on a tape recorder, but, being the There are several ways to use these films, according to perfectionist I am, I went to a studio and made a professional Center Director Ted Ownby. First, people looking for infor- recording. Made a cover for it and everything. Gave some out mation on conference subjects like Walter Anderson can to my friends and realized that I still had a couple hundred of find a quick and inviting way to learn. Second, people who these cassette tapes and I said I guess I better try to play some missed conferences or other talks can experience part of gigs so I can sell some of these tapes. So I started playing in the events through their computers. He continued that the coffeehouses, and I got more into it, and I realized that this is films can serve as recruiting tools by showing potential stu- cool, I liked playing this music, people liked it, I didn’t have dents some of the things that go on at the Center. Ownby to worry about recruiting the rest of the band or depending on concluded, “I can imagine this as something with a lot of the band for rehearsals or anything.” creative possibilities for student films and interviews and Cheseborough was living in Phoenix, Arizona, at the time heaven knows what else.” and working as a newspaper reporter. Like most blues musi- To view the films, visit the Center’s home page at www. cians and enthusiasts, he had a deep interest in Mississippi, olemiss.edu/depts/south and select “Film Projects” from the but he figured that the Mississippi of Robert Johnson’s time main menu. continued on page 9 Page 6 Winter 2010 The Southern Register Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference Faulkner and Film • July 18–22, 2010

For many readers, William Faulkner’s rela- Screenplay by Joel Sayre and William tionship with the world of film consists of Faulkner” (Matthew Ramsey). a few anecdotes pointing to a general at- Additional speakers and panelists mosphere of friction and misunderstand- will be selected from the “call for pa- ing. The conversation with Clark Gable: pers” submissions. “Oh, do you write?” “Yes Mr. Gable, what There will be showings of several do you do?” Faulkner’s alleged mantra as films and film clips, either from screen- he would trudge off to the studio each plays by Faulkner, such as The Road to morning: “They’re gonna pay me Friday, Glory, (1936), To Have and Have Not they’re gonna pay me Friday.” Faulkner’s (1944), and The Big Sleep (1946); films response on being informed by Howard made from Faulkner novels or short sto- Hawks that Joan Crawford was avail- ries, such as Sanctuary (1961), Tomorrow able for the film being made of the sto- (1960, 1972), Barn Burning (1980), and ry “Turnabout”: “I don’t recall there was a Riché Richardson Old Man (1997); or films influenced by woman in that story.” Or the debacle that Faulkner’s fiction. ensued when Faulkner, having received Africana Studies at Cornell University, Stephen Railton, professor of English word that he could work “at home” in- author of Black Masculinity and the U.S. at the University of Virginia, will make stead of his studio office, immediately left South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta. a special presentation at the conference, Hollywood for Oxford. Returning speakers will include announcing the online availability of Behind those stories (some of them Deborah Barker, associate professor of the complete tape recordings of Faulkner even true), we are now coming to real- English, University of Mississippi, au- in the University: Class Conferences at the ize, is not so much a Southern novelist thor of Aesthetics and Gender in American University of Virginia, 1957–1958 (only temporarily abandoning his roots for the Literature: The Portrait of the Woman half of which appeared in the published lure of Mammon, as an amazingly re- Artist and coeditor of Shakespeare and volume). Railton will play segments sourceful artist seriously committed to Gender; Robert Hamblin, Southeast from the tapes. the writing of screenplays and open to Missouri State University, director of Other program events will include the creative possibilities for fiction of the the Center for Faulkner Studies and sessions on “Teaching Faulkner,” con- film medium. Moreover, there is increas- author and coeditor of eight volumes, ducted by James Carothers, University ing evidence that influence was travel- including Faulkner and Hollywood: A of Kansas, Charles Peek, Professor ing in two directions: between film and Retrospective from the Brodsky Collection Emeritus, University of Nebraska at Faulkner, which begins to show up as and A Critical Companion to William Kearney, Terrell Tebbetts, Lyon College, early as Absalom, Absalom!, and between Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life and Theresa Towner, University of Texas Faulkner and film, as in American film and Work; Peter Lurie, assistant profes- at Dallas; a discussion of “Collecting noir and French New Wave cinema. sor of English, University of Richmond, Faulkner” by Seth Berner; and an exhibi- The 37th annual Faulkner and Yok- author of Vision’s Immanence: Faulkner, tion of Faulkner books, manuscripts, pho- napatawpha Conference will explore for Film, and the Popular Imagination; and tographs, and memorabilia at the John five days the phenomenon of “Faulkner Matthew Ramsey, assistant professor of Davis Williams Library. There will also and Film,” through lectures, panel discus- Film and Media Studies, Salve Regina be guided daylong tours of Memphis and sions, and films. Appearing at the con- University, author of a dozen articles North Mississippi, including Oxford, the ference for the first time are Eli Caplin, and reviews, the majority of them on Delta, and New Albany/Ripley; a picnic the exclusive representative of the film and adaptation. served at Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak; Faulkner literary estate and a film pro- Among the topics these scholars will and “Faulkner on the Fringe,” an “open ducer in Hollywood; Robert Jackson, lec- take up are “The Black ‘Mammy’ in mike” evening at the Southside Gallery. turer in Media Studies at the University the Film Sanctuary” (Deborah Barker), Discount rates for the conference are of Virginia, author of Seeking the Region in “A Reassessment of Faulkner and available for groups of five or more stu- American Literature and Culture; Sharon Hollywood” (Robert Hamblin), “Images of dents. Inexpensive dormitory housing Monteith, professor of American Studies Collaboration: William Faulkner’s Motion is available for all registrants. Contact at the University of Nottingham, au- Picture Communities” (Robert Jackson); Robert Fox at [email protected] for de- thor of Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial “‘Fascination’ in Absalom, Absalom!” tails. There are also a limited number Friendships in Contemporary Southern (Peter Lurie), “From the Faulknerian of waivers of registration for graduate Fiction, Film Histories, and American South to the New Wave: French Directors students. Contact Donald Kartiganer at Culture in the 1960s; and Riché and Their Fascination with Faulkner” [email protected] for details. Richardson, associate professor of (Sharon Monteith); and “Road to Glory, Donald M. Kartiganer

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 7 Southern Studies Alumni News Dozens of alumni of the Southern Studies undergraduate and graduate programs have continued their educa- tions in PhD or other graduate programs. The Southern Register has often publicized their accomplishments once they finish new degrees and write or edit books and start careers. For this article, I asked several alums who are currently in graduate school about the nature of their graduate programs, their most intriguing challenges or readings, their dissertations or theses, and their career plans. Franklin Ridgway (BA 1999) is finishing his PhD in English at the University of Illinois. Like several SST alumni, Mary Battle (MA 2006) is working toward a PhD in (above) Sarah Condon and her husband, Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts at Emory the Rev. Josh Condon University. Aaron Rollins (MA 2009) is in his first year in the PhD program (right) Mary Battle in Public Policy and Administration at Mississippi State University, and Discussions of particular challenges ures. Rory Fraser described the biggest Ben Gilstrap (MA 2009) has started varied. Mary Battle wrote that an ob- accomplishment of his first semester in the PhD program in history here at the servational filmmaking class tested graduate school: “Last term I made a University of Mississippi. On the West her understanding of how to use film short film about an old San Francisco Coast, Brooke Butler (MA 2004) is technology. Brooke Butler recalled that men’s hatter, Paul’s Hat Works, and completing a Cultural Studies PhD at qualifying exams “were stressful, but I the four young ladies who recently the University of California–Davis, and got a tattoo to commemorate them.” bought it. It’s called We Continue in the Rory Fraser (MA 2009) is pursuing an Sarah Condon’s challenge was more Old Style.” Watch it here: www.vimeo. MFA in Documentary Filmmaking at theological: “I had to write about the com/8129309. Devendorf was sur- Stanford. Last summer, Sarah Freeland presence of the Holy Spirit in my faith prised, after 16 years away from grad- Simonson (BA 2009) began work in tradition. As an Episcopalian in class uate school, to find that much “newer the Tulane School of Architecture pur- with Pentecostals, she found this task scholarship is both scholarly and en- suing both a Master of Architecture came much more naturally to my class- gaging. Who knew?” In one archiving and a Master of Preservation Studies, mates.” Aaron Rollins found Thomas class, Carly Grace had the assignment and Meredith Devendorf (MA 1998) S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific of creating a finding aid about her own is in the history PhD program at the Revolutions “the most challenging book life based on the idea that she was “dead University of South Carolina. Sarah that I encountered during my first year,” and famous.” Condon (BA 2005) is in the Master and Sarah Simonson mentioned an ac- Graduate students writing disserta- of Divinity program at Yale Divinity celerated architecture program that “in- tions have a variety of topics. Brooke School, and Carly Grace (BA 2001) volved doing a different design problem Butler’s work is entitled “The Other is pursuing a Master in Library and every week with a different professor, as Magical Kingdom: New Orleans Voodoo Information Science at the University well as a lot of all-nighters.” and Tourism.” Mary Battle’s dissertation of Southern Mississippi. Some emphasized unexpected pleas- studies what she calls the “changing representations of race, class, and the history of slavery in historic tourism in the South Carolina Lowcountry.” Devendorf Herring on All Things Considered is planning to write on Southern wom- On January 3, Caroline Herring (MA 1998) was the subject of an interview on en’s intellectual history, and Gilstrap National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Discussing her new album, Golden plans to explore the “intellectual side Apples of the Sun, Herring played one of the songs from that album and discussed of early-19th-century Southern agricul- songs, songwriting, and topics ranging from Eudora Welty and Walter Anderson tural journals.” Rollins is developing a to her grandmother. The interview is available on the NPR Web site at www.npr. plan to study the effects No Child Left org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122110056. Behind programs have had on Mississippi schools. Ridgway’s dissertation explores

Page 8 Winter 2010 The Southern Register “how white middle-class writers of the Era struggled to make sense of emergent me.” Gilstrap hopes to combine teach- American Gilded Age and Progressive technosocial systems of mobility.” ing and political goals: “After graduate Several current graduate students school I will pursue the career of a pro- have taught, first as teaching assistants fessional scholar, challenging the left- and then as instructors, and many but wing hegemony of modern academia.” not all imagine teaching as a career Grace is working with the Mobile Area goal. Rory Fraser writes, “I will probably Education Foundation and hopes her teach and continue making films.” But- degree and experience will open up a li- ler, Rollins, and Battle have taught brary or archival job. Simonson hopes to introductory classes and are looking become an architect involved in resto- forward to possible teaching positions, ration work, preferably in New Orleans, and Devendorf and also Battle men- and Condon writes that her “dream job tion the possibility of public history would be in prison chaplaincy.” work. Ridgway writes, “I’m currently Aaron Rollins on the academic job market. God help Ted Ownby continued from 6 Cheseborough Library Exhibition had long since faded and was now just like the rest of the country. That percep- on Walter Anderson tion changed when he attended the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in Clarksdale. “I had just seen the movie Deep Blues. Seeing that movie showed me The exhibition Walter Anderson and that there were still some obscure musicians who were playing very down-home World Literature will remain on display kinda blues in these very cool little places, and also seeing the look of the whole through July 2010 at the University place made me start thinking ‘Hmm, maybe I’d better get down to Mississippi.’ And of Mississippi J. D. Williams Library. I went to the festival and I realized that there was a lot more that I needed to learn Curated by the artist’s son John about and explore in Mississippi than I would learn in a short visit, so I had to live Anderson, it features 85 prints. In ad- there. Then I found out about the Center and thought that sounded like a great dition to the complete alphabet se- thing for me, so I applied for the graduate program in Southern Studies.” ries, the exhibition includes illustra- While in the program, Cheseborough was asked to write a guidebook to blues-re- tions to accompany the text of such lated places in Mississippi. “I was kinda amazed that that book didn’t already exist; I classics as Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, would have bought it as soon as I got there if they had such a text. It took me a while Legends of Charlemagne, and the Rime to finish it; after I received my degree, I stayed and did the book.” The book, Blues of the Ancient Mariner as well as scenes Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, published in 2001 by the University Press of from beloved fairy tales like Rapunzel, Mississippi, is now in its third edition and is internationally acclaimed. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Puss Cheseborough’s latest album, Fetch It! (released in January 2009), finds him ex- and Boots. panding his musical abilities. “I’m kinda proud of it, because I’ve done more arrang- The library has also created an on- ing on this one, doing songs that were not necessarily originally played by someone line subject guide to accompany the sitting and playing guitar. Some of the songs were done by band or by piano players exhibit at http://apollo.lib.olemiss. and I’ve reinterpreted them for guitar.” Like his previous albums, Fetch It! is made edu/center/subject_guide/anderson/ entirely of covers by legendary blues artists such as Tampa Red, Bo Carter, and Blind intro. It includes lists of publica- Lemon Jefferson; Cheseborough doesn’t see himself venturing into early blues song- tions on the life and work of Walter writing anytime soon. “People ask me do I write songs; I think you cannot really Anderson, other online resources, write a song in the tradition anymore. I think some people try to do it, and it kinda and books illustrated by Anderson comes out as a parody or something because we don’t live the same kind of life that that appear in the exhibition. The people lived then. We can’t use the same kind of references they did to mules and subject guide also features an essay by roosters crowing and stuff because we don’t have those around us, and if you try to the curator. use the things that are around you it comes out ridiculous. I’m happy with just ex- The exhibition was sponsored in ploring all the great traditions and trying to work with them.” conjunction with the 16th annu- Cheseborough lives in Portland, Oregon, working as a music teacher and a free- al Oxford Conference for the Book, lance reporter. While busy figuring out what do to next (a European tour and an- which on March 26, 2009, present- other book are in the works), he tries to take a trip back at least once a year. “I really ed four sessions on the role of books miss it. I really love Mississippi and really feel that that’s my true home even though in Walter Anderson’s life and art. I did not grow up there. I felt more at home there after three days than I ever felt in Films of these sessions are posted on Arizona, where I lived for 13 years.” the Center’s Web site, www.olemiss. edu/depts/south. I’Nasah Crockett

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 9 New Books by Current and Former Southern Studies Faculty Southern Studies facul- and his UNC colleague ty members and former fac- Glenn Hinson, associate ulty members continue to professor of anthropology, publish new books. Late in have published the Folklife 2009, Associate Professor volume, the 14th book in of Southern Studies and The New Encyclopedia of English Adam Gussow wel- Southern Culture series, also comed a new edition of Mister from the University of North Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Carolina Press. Asked about Memoir. The new edition the volume and its subject, comes from the University Hinson replied, “The elu- of Minnesota Press and in- sive soul of the South rests cludes a new preface. “Mister in its folklife, in both the Satan’s Apprentice was origi- subtle unfolding of everyday nally published in 1998,” said traditions and the dazzling Gussow. “I somehow man- blossoming of grand spec- aged to write it while I tacles. Whether savory was a full-time grad stu- sweet potato pie served dent at Princeton and a up at a family reunion, blues musician on the the magnificent drama weekend. It’s basical- of an African American ly the story of a young marching band, or the white harmonica play- quiet passion of gospel er who is lucky enough harmonizing, the spirit of to be mentored by two Southern communities is older African American ever finding new ways to bluesmen, both of express itself. This vol- whom were extraordi- ume offers us a guide to narily charismatic. One, many of these ways, re- Nat Riddles, was like vealing not only conti- a big brother to me, nuities between old and and the memoir traces new, but also the alto- his troubled life to its gether novel expressions tragic end. The other, Sterling ‘Mister cided to issue it in a new edition, 11 of Southern soul.” Satan’ Magee, was Mississippi-born and years down the line.” Robbie Ethridge, associate professor Harlem-bred, a rough, oracular, street- William Ferris, the Center’s found- of sociology and anthropology and for- wise older man whom I connected with ing director and now Joel Williamson mer Center faculty member, has pub- musically in a powerful way. In fact, I’m Eminent Professor of History and Senior lished an edited collection, Mapping the still playing occasional gigs with him, 23 Associate Director for the Center of Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial years after we first jammed on a Harlem the Study of the American South at Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability sidewalk. When the book isn’t explor- the University of North Carolina, has in the American South, along with coedi- ing these tangled, challenging, and en- two new books published in 2009. Give tor Sheri M. Shuck-Hall. Published by lightening relationships, it’s following My Poor Heart Ease, published by the the University of Nebraska Press, the me as I leave the streets to play har- University of North Carolina Press, doc- long and thorough collection of more monica with the bus-and-truck tour of uments African American musicians, than 500 pages brings together work Big River, Roger Miller’s stage version of both professional and amateur, that from 17 scholars who study early con- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Among Ferris met and studied in the 1960s and tact between American Indians and other things, the actor who played Jim 1970s. With photographs, long transcrip- Europeans in the early South to study used to describe himself as ‘the high- tions of interviews, a CD, and a DVD, slavery, disease, and extraordinary so- est-paid runaway slave in America.’ the book takes readers, watchers, and lis- cial and demographic change. My book had a good run the first time teners as close as a book can take people Finally, Justin Nystrom, who taught around; I couldn’t be more pleased that into the homes, juke joints, and churches as visiting assistant professor of histo- the University of Minnesota Press de- of Mississippians who made music. Ferris ry and Southern Studies in 2008–2009,

Page 10 Winter 2010 The Southern Register will publish his first book, New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom, in spring 2010 Summer School on the Johns Hopkins University Press. The book blends political history with issues of class, economic change, and racial definition. Nystrom now teach- in Germany es at Loyola College in New Orleans. “My aim was to write a book that broke “The South in Global Perspectives” free from some of the old assumptions and stereotypes of the postbellum peri- Charles Reagan Wilson and Kathryn McKee were among faculty members at the od,” Nystrom says. “I felt the best way July 2009 Trinational Summer School at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, to do this was to piece together a tale Germany. The Summer School, a joint venture of Georgia State University and from the perspective of different people Johannes Gutenberg University and sponsored in part by the German Academic and how the war changed their person- Exchange Service (DAAD), is the first of three such programs, all focused on al lives. I’d also be lying if I said that Transnational American Studies. This summer’s topic was “The South in Global Katrina did not influence some of my Perspectives.” Wilson and McKee joined professors and graduate students from thinking. In a lot of ways, I think re- Georgia State, Johannes Gutenberg, and Peking University for an intensive two- writing the manuscript after the storm week interdisciplinary seminar in which faculty offered plenary lectures about as- helped me get a better grip on the sort signed reading and then participated in daily discussions with the group as a whole. of uncertainty that surely dominated The session culminated in a series of research presentations by the graduate students. life for New Orleanians after the Civil The remaining two sessions of the Summer School will continue pursuing the recent War.” turn in American Studies away from its formerly strict focus on national processes in favor of examining the flows of transnational cultural exchange. The group will con- vene in Atlanta during the summer of 2010 to discuss “New Directions in Southern Studies,” with a possible side trip to Oxford, and reassemble during the summer of Southern 2011 at Peking University to study “Southern Landscapes and Life Writing.”

Studies Faculty Anna Kathryn Samonds

on the Road Katie McKee and Charles Reagan Wilson will speak Charles Wilson on the at the Natchez Literary and Cinema Rhine River during a Celebration on February 25. Wilson’s boat trip narrated by a lecture, entitled “God’s Laughter: German scholar who Humor and Southern Religion,” will studies 19th-century be part of the event’s theme, “Humor American authors who in the Deep South.” Information on visited Germany the Celebration is available at www. colin.edu/nlcc. Katie McKee will take part in a roundtable discussion at the Society of Southern Literature meeting April 8–11 in New Orleans, along with Southern Studies alumna Molly Charles Wilson McGehee (MA 2000), on the topic (left) with Alfred “Teaching Southern Studies.” One Hornung, professor of can read more about the SSSL at American Studies at http://web.wm.edu/english/sssl. Johannes Gutenberg Ted Ownby will be part of the University and one Banners Cultural Series (www.ban- of the Trinational ners.org) at McNeese State University Summer School’s in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on April organizers. Hornung 20. His talk will imagine a conver- was a visiting schol- sation on the nature of Southern ar for English and family life in the 1970s among Jerry Southern Studies Falwell, Alex Haley, and Southern at the University of Rock musicians. Mississippi during the spring semester of 2006. Kathryn McKee

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 11 MISSISSIPPI DELTA LITERARY TOUR SCHEDULE February 28–March 4, 2010 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28: GREENWOOD 5:00 p.m. Book signing at McCormick Book Inn with 3:00 p.m. Registration—Alluvian Marion Barnwell, Nicholas A. Basbanes, 4:00 p.m. Welcome by Jimmy Thomas Kenneth Holditch, Franke Keating, and Marion Barnwell, talk on Mary Craig Gayden Metcalfe Kimbrough Sinclair 6:00 p.m. Cocktails at the home of Leila Wynn 5:00 p.m. Mary Carol Miller, talk on Greenwood history 7:30 p.m. Dinner at Doe’s Eat Place 5:30 p.m. Talk with Jim Abbott, former editor of the 8:00 p.m. Depart for Greenwood Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin, Tim Kalich, editor of the Greenwood Commonwealth, and Curtis WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3: TUTWILER, Wilkie, journalism professor at the University CLARKSDALE, AND MERIGOLD of Mississippi 8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast 7:00 p.m. Dinner at the Crystal Grill 9:00 a.m. Depart for Clarksdale—Luther Brown and Henry Outlaw, tour guides MONDAY, MARCH 1: YAZOO CITY Visit Little Zion Church and Robert Johnson’s 8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast Grave Site 9:00 a.m. Depart for Yazoo City Visit Money, Mississippi 10:30 a.m. Presentations at the B. S. Ricks Memorial Library 10:00 a.m. Visit Tutwiler Community Education Center— Welcome—Paul Cartwright, Library Director Quilting Display/Gospel Music On Yazoo City Writers—Teresa Nicholas 12:00 p.m. Lunch at the Cutrer Mansion On Willie Morris—JoAnne Prichard Morris 1:00 p.m. “Tennessee Williams,” talk by W. Kenneth On Herschel Brickell—Sam Olden Holditch Visit Henry Herschel Brickell Memorial 2:00 p.m. Bus tour of Clarksdale by Panny Mayfield Walkway Visit St. George’s Episcopal Church Noon Lunch at the home of Sam Olden Walking tour of Downtown Clarksdale 1:00 p.m. Tour of Yazoo City—Sam Olden, guide Visit Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art Triangle Cultural Center Visit Marshall Bouldin’s Studio Sam Olden Historical Museum 5:00 p.m. Cocktails and Porch Plays: Scenes from Oakes African American Cultural Center Tennessee Williams’s plays performed by actors Glenwood Cemetery Johnny McPhail and Alice Walker at the home 4:00 p.m. Depart from Yazoo City of Panny Mayfield 6:00 p.m. Dunlap, Burgess, and Dunlap: Art Exhibition at 6:00 p.m. Dinner at Panny Mayfield’s House Gallery Point Leflore with Bill Dunlap, Linda 8:00 p.m. Visit Po’ Monkey’s Juke Joint Burgess, and Maggie Dunlap 6:30 p.m. Cocktails and entertainment at the Alluvian THURSDAY, MARCH 4: OXFORD CONFERENCE 7:30 p.m. Dinner at Delta Bistro FOR THE BOOK 8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast TUESDAY, MARCH 2: GREENVILLE 9:00 a.m. Depart for Oxford (1.5 hours) 8:00 a.m. Alluvian Breakfast Oxford Conference for the Book, dedicated to 9:00 a.m. Depart for Indianola Barry Hannah on the University of Mississippi 9:45 a.m. Visit B. B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive campus, March 4–7 Center in Indianola 11:00 a.m. Depart for Greenville *All events subject to change 12:00 p.m. Lunch at the home of Greenville author Gayden Metcalfe MISSISSIPPI DELTA LITERARY TOUR, 1:00 p.m. Greenville Tour, led by Mary Dayle FEBRUARY 28–MARCH 4 McCormick, including the Greenville Flood The tour is $575 per person for all program activities, 10 Museum meals, and local transportation. The fee does not include 2:30 p.m. William Alexander Percy Memorial Library lodging. Group accommodations are offered at the Alluvian, “The History of Greenville,” talk by Hugh and in downtown Greenwood (www.thealluvian.com). Rooms Mary Dayle McCormick at the Alluvian require a separate registration. Standard “Greenville Writers,” talk by W. Kenneth rooms are priced at a discounted rate of $170. Call 866-600- Holditch 5201 and ask for the Literary Tour rate. For more infor- 4:30 p.m. William Alexander Percy graveside reading by mation and registration instructions, visit Olemiss.edu/ Mary Dayle McCormick depts/south/DeltaLiberaryTour.html.

Page 12 Winter 2010 The Southern Register Deltalogy 101 The Delta Isn’t Just a Place. It’s a People.

Jimmy Thomas grew up in the towns of courtesy PORTICO jackson magazine Leland and Greenville in the Mississippi Delta, studied literature and philosophy at the University of Mississippi, and worked for Guideposts magazine in New York before returning to Oxford in 2003 as managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He is coordinator of the Mississippi Delta Literary Tour sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. When asked about the Delta Tour, this is what he had to say: It is generally, if not universally, accepted that the culture of the Mississippi Delta is unique. The Delta is the home of the blues, the home of catfish and the hot tamale, the home of a turbulent past, Sam Olden, host and guide for the March 1 and the home of great literature. And tour in Yazoo City, at his historic home while elements of this or any culture can be independently discussed, understood, while those same ladies who handcraft- teur there, and they’ll tell you that they and experienced, it is the symbiotic reed those quilts in a centuries-old African sell a lot of it. And then you’ll try some lationship between culture and the peo- American quilting tradition sing gospel for yourself. And you’ll like it. ple who create, mold, and nurture it that songs and praise Jesus for the riches that The next day you’ll walk into Doe’s Eat keeps that culture thriving. Indeed, the He has bestowed upon them—conspicu- Place in Greenville, one of Mississippi’s people in and of the Mississippi Delta ously without mention of the hardships most famous eating establishments. But not only participate in Delta culture, but that Delta living also provides. There’s you’re not there for the catfish. Oh, they keep it vibrant and alive. nothing like walking into one of the last- don’t be disappointed—you’re there Every spring, during our annual remaining, bona fide, honest-to-goodness for the steaks and the hot tamales. Doe Mississippi Delta Literary Tour, we trav- juke joints in Mississippi, thus perhaps Signa, the owner, will most likely meet el across the Delta in search of what it the world, on a chilly, dark-as-pitch night you at the door, give you a hearty Delta is that makes this region unique. That and having the proprietor—Po’ Monkey, welcome, and then turn around and get is why people come. They come to ex- a man who drives a tractor by day—shake back to work cooking. You see, at Doe’s ist within that culture, to participate in your hand, sell you a cold beer, and show you have to walk through the kitchen it, to absorb it. And while it is true that you around the place he is so proud to call to get to your table. In fact, much of the one can listen to the blues music of B. B. his own. You suddenly come to realize restaurant is kitchen, and you can even King or Robert Johnson and enjoy it in- you’ve just discovered something that you sit in the kitchen to eat. Don’t worry, dependent of any significant understand- couldn’t have found anywhere else in the though. The cooks don’t mind, and ing of who they are or what their lives in world but in the Mississippi Delta. You’ve they’re good company, too. the Delta were like, nothing compares found the blues personified. Despite the plethora of good eats at to driving down an old blacktop road And while music might be that bit of Delta restaurants, there’s something and stopping at the final resting place— Delta culture that one can most easily ex- to be said from having a meal set out in a churchyard nearly engulfed by cot- perience while being hundreds of miles for you in the home of Delta residents. ton fields—of Robert Johnson himself. from the nearest cotton field, the food of Southern hospitality isn’t a marketing There’s nothing like strolling through one the Delta is not. Driving across the Delta gimmick, and it isn’t a thing of the past. of Mississippi’s greatest monuments to you see rows of square ponds extend- During the Delta tour a number of the blues music, the B. B. King Museum and ing across the landscape. Within those Delta’s most generous residents host our Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, ponds live catfish—catfish exported from guests in their homes, inviting you to and stopping in front of Lucille, the gui- coast to coast and eaten in nearly ev- come in, sit a spell, and have a meal that tar that helped make King famous, while ery Delta restaurant from Greenwood to Deltans not only enjoy themselves but listening to him croon out “The Thrill Is Greenville, from Yazoo City to Clarksdale. enjoy sharing with friends and guests. Gone.” There’s nothing like sitting, sur- Ask any Deltan—at least those who are (Visiting is sport in Mississippi, and vis- rounded by brilliantly colored quilts, in the 40 or younger—and they’ll tell you they iting over a meal is as civilized a sport Tutwiler Community Education Center were raised on it. And ask any restaura- we know.) In Yazoo City, Sam Olden,

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 13 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP MARCH 3, 2010 Margaret-Love Denman, former director of the creative writing program at the University of New Hampshire and currently coordinator of off-campus writing programs at the University of Mississippi, will offer a special workshop in conjunction with the 2010 Oxford Conference for the Book. The daylong workshop, ti- Doe Signa cooking at Doe’s Eat tled “Mining Your Raw Materials,” Place in Greenville will take place Wednesday, March 3, at the Downtown Grill on the Oxford a true Southern gentleman who knew In Greenville, too, there is a bookstore. Square. fellow Yazooan Willie Morris person- No, not just any bookstore. This book- The workshop is open to 20 writ- ally, will welcome you to his dinner ta- store, McCormick Book Inn, is the keepers. The workshop fee of $250 in- ble and tell you stories about what Yazoo er of the Delta’s literary torch. It’s the old- cludes evaluation of up to 20 double- City was like when Willie lived there est and one of the most respected inde- spaced pages submitted beforehand, as a boy. In Greenville, one of the city’s pendent bookstores in the great state of a private 20-minute session with the most gracious hostesses and most famous Mississippi. Out of a deep and sincere instructor during the March 4–6 con- contemporary writers, Gayden Metcalfe, love for Delta history and literature Hugh ference, attendance at all conference will invite you into her home for “din- and Mary Dayle McCormick have made events, lunch and refreshments on ner” (we still call lunch “dinner” here). it their mission to promote not only the Wednesday, and dinner on Thursday. And in Clarksdale, Panny Mayfield, one Delta’s literary legacy, which includes Also, each registrant will receive a of Clarksdale’s most devoted patrons of writers William Alexander Percy, David copy of Novel Ideas: Contemporary arts and culture, will not only provide Cohn, Walker Percy, and Shelby Foote, Authors Share the Creative Process. you with a supper you’ll not likely soon but to promote the Delta itself. They’ve The fee does not include lodging. forget, but she’ll open up her wide front even coined a word to describe the Delta First come, first served. porch to two Mississippi actors who will as “a place, a melting pot of people, a my- transport you into the intimate world thology and a reality”: Deltalogy. There is Perry Smith of Tennessee Williams by performing none more equipped to introduce new- scenes from his work. comers to Greenville and Greenville writ- But what is a tour without a guide? And ers than the McCormicks. And that they who better a guide than those who have will do. Mary Dayle will even lead you to made it their life’s work to keep Delta the graveside of William Alexander Percy culture alive and well? In Greenwood, and read from his seminal book, Lanterns Jamie and Kelly Kornegay own and op- on the Levee. (As an extension of our ob- erate Turnrow Book Company, one of session with our past, we Southerners the state’s newest and best bookstores. are, obviously, also obsessed with our They’ll host the tour for a talk with lo- cemeteries.) cal newspaper editors, Jim Abbott, former So, you see, the Delta isn’t just a place. editor of the Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin, It is filled to brimming with people— and Tim Kalich, editor of the Greenwood people who are part of the fabric of the Commonwealth—men who know the culture. In addition to the writers, ac- Delta from the inside. In Yazoo City, tors, musicians, culinary aficionados, and Sam Olden will personally give us a guid- historians of the Delta, there are also the ed tour of his hometown, and JoAnne artists, the scholars, and the just-plain- Prichard Morris, the widow of the late welcoming everyday folks who live, Willie Morris, will lead us into the world work, and play there. You’ll meet them, that Willie created, as well as to his final too. They, as much as anybody else, Margaret-Love Denman resting place in Glenwood Cemetery. make the Delta, well, the Delta.

Page 14 Winter 2010 The Southern Register Nicholas A. Basbanes continued from 1 Oxford Conference for the Book Jones and Square Books owner Richard Howorth to the stage of to Give Keynote Address the Ford Center at four o’clock for a talk on “Literary Oxford.” Nicholas A. Basbanes, a noted book collector and author of Grisham will reflect on Oxford’s transformation, during the past books about books, will present the keynote address for the 30 years, from a one-author town dominated by William Faulkner 2010 Oxford Conference for the Book. The address is sched- and his fictional Yoknapatawpha to a thriving literary communi- uled for Thursday, March 4, following an 11:30 a.m. lunch in ty where many writers live and study. Willie Morris’s decade in the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the Oxford (1980–1990) and Barry Hannah’s continuing presence J. D. Williams Library. since 1982 are major contributors to the transformation. Basbanes’s first book,A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Two Literature for Young Authors sessions are scheduled Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, was a finalist for for Friday morning. All Oxford-area fifth- and ninth-grade the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction for 1995 students (nearly 1,000 readers) will receive their own cop- and was named a New York Times notable book of the year. Now ies of books from the selected authors, courtesy of the Junior in its 20th printing, it has recorded sales of more than 120,000 Auxiliary of Oxford, the Lafayette County Literary Council, copies. The release in 2001 of a companion volume, Patience & and Square Books Jr., and also have a chance to hear the Fortitude: A Roving authors speak about writing and reading. Ingrid Law will Chronicle of Book speak to fifth graders, who will receive copies ofSavvy , win- People, Book Places, ner of Newbery and National Book honors. Watt Key will and Book Culture, speak to ninth graders, who will receive copies of his book prompted the two- Alabama Moon, winner of the 2007 E. B. White Read-Aloud time Pulitzer Prize– Award. Fifth and ninth graders from Teach for America and winning biographer Mississippi Teacher Corps schools will also attend the sessions and historian David and receive copies of Law’s and Key’s books. In addition, stu- McCullough to de- dents will be invited to meet the authors during a special af- scribe him as “the ter-school autograph session at Square Books Jr. leading authority of Friday afternoon’s program will begin with Ted Ownby, di- books about books rector of the Center, talking with two authors whose recently and this, his latest, is published memoirs discuss the issue of race within their own a jewel.” Basbanes’s families. Ralph Eubanks, in The House at the End of the Road, subsequent books describes what was said and not said about certain relatives in are Among the Gently his Deep South family. Bliss Broyard, in One Drop, tells about Mad: Perspectives and learning, near the time of her father’s death, that her father, Strategies for the Book- a prominent figure in New York literary world, had relatives Nicholas A. Basbanes Hunter of the 21st considered black or Creole in New Orleans. She wrote her Century, Every Book memoir to get to know the relatives she had never known and Its Reader: The Power to think more broadly about the race and history. of the Printed Word to Stir the World; Editions & Impressions, and “The University Press of Mississippi at 40 Years” is the topic a centennial history of Yale University Press, A World of Letters. for the next session. Seven panelists—former UPM staff mem- A cultural history of paper and papermaking, titled Common bers JoAnne Prichard Morris and Seetha Srinivasan; current Bond, is set for publication this year. staff members John Langston, Leila Salisbury, and Steve Yates; In addition to his books, Basbanes has written for numer- and scholars Noel Polk and Peggy Whitman Prenshaw—will ous newspapers, magazines, and journals, the New York Times, reflect on the history and accomplishments of the state’s only the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Smithsonian, academic publisher. The Press will also host a picnic at noon Civilization, and the New England Quarterly among them, and on Saturday as part of its anniversary festivities. (For details lectures widely on book-related issues. In 2004 he began writ- about the Press, see page 21 of this issue of the Register.) ing the “Gently Mad” column for Fine Books & Collections Following the panels will be readings by fiction writers magazine. With his wife, Constance Basbanes, he writes Steven Amsterdam (Things We Didn’t See Coming), John a monthly review of children’s books for Literary Features Brandon (Arkansas), Donna Hemans (River Woman), and Syndicate, which they established in 1993, and which appears Wells Tower (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned). Brandon in a dozen newspapers. is 2009–2010 Grisham Writer at the University of Mississippi. Well known for writing about books and bibliophiles, Hemans leads fiction writing workshops at the Writer’s Basbanes has worked as worked as an award-winning inves- Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and has served writer in resi- tigative reporter, a literary editor, and a nationally syndicated dence at Georgetown University. Tower is a full-time writer columnist. who divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Brooklyn. Amsterdam is a New Yorker who now lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he works as a psychiatric nurse and is writing his second book. 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literary scholar and teacher at Millsaps first novel,Dear American Airlines, was O’Connor, and James V. O’Connor will College; Noel Polk, also a literary schol- published in 2008. offer a “Promoting Books and Authors” ar, and professor emeritus at Mississippi Donald Kartiganer and Jay Watson, workshop, followed by an “Open State; and John N. Quisenberry, a lawyer English professor at the University of Mike—Poetry & Fiction Jam” for all in Los Angeles. Mississippi, will discuss “Teaching Barry participants who wish to read selections The first panel on Saturday afternoon, Hannah” with Daniel E. Williams, a spe- of their own poetry or fiction. MFA “Barry Hannah as Teacher,” moderated cialist in early American literature who students Anya Groner and Corinna by fiction writer Tom Franklin, will hear also teaches writing and contemporary McClanahan Schroeder are moderators from three of Hannah’s former creative American fiction at Texas Christian for the Poetry & Fiction Jam. writing students. A film supervisor for University. From 1985 to 2003, he Saturday’s program on Barry Hannah more than 40 features between 1981 un- was a professor at the University of will begin with William Dunlap mod- til 1997, Anne Rapp moved to Oxford Mississippi and in 2000 taught the first- erating a “Survivors of Geronimo Rex” to study with Hannah; after receiving ever seminar on Hannah. panel with persons who knew the au- an MFA, she returned home to Texas The final panel, moderated by Richard thor at Mississippi College in the 1960s to write and to work with the director Howorth, will consider “Barry Hannah and will tell stories that offer insight into Robert Altman. Cynthia Shearer, a stu- as Writer” with comments by authors his remarkable first novel. The panel- dent and colleague of Hannah’s while William Harrison, Amy Hempel, Mark ists are Harry Brown, a Jackson musician living in Oxford from 1984 until mov- Richard, and Wells Tower. Harrison, and Hannah’s friend since childhood; ing to Texas in 2003, is the author of the novelist, short story writer, and screen- Horace Newcomb, author and professor novels The Wonder Book of the Air and writer, and his colleague Jim Whitehead of telecommunications at the University The Celestial Jukebox. Jonathan Miles, founded the Program in Creative of Georgia; Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, a who studied with Hannah during the Writing at the University of Arkansas 1980s and 1990s, is a columnist for the at Fayetteville in 1966. Barry Hannah, New York Times, a regular contributor to in 1967, was the first MFA graduate of the New York Times Book Review, and the program. Hempel is coordinator of a contributing editor to Men’s Journal, the fiction writing program at Brooklyn where he oversees books coverage. His College and has written four story col-

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Daniel E. Williams lections. Richard is a screenwriter and Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, author of one novel and two story col- was published in 2009. lections. A film based on his story “The The conference will end with a mara- Ice at the Bottom of the World” is cur- thon book signing at Off Square Books rently in production. Tower has pub- at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. tially funded by the University of lished short stories in the New Yorker, The University of Mississippi and Mississippi, a contribution from the Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the Paris Review, Square Books sponsor the confer- R&B Feder Foundation for the Beaux and elsewhere; his first collection, ence in association with the Junior Arts, and grants from the National Auxiliary of Oxford, Lafayette County- Endowment for the Arts, the Southern John Grisham Oxford Public Library, Lafayette Arts Federation, the Mississippi County Literacy Council, Oxford Della Humanities Council, the Oxford Davidson Elementary PTA, Mississippi Tourism Council, the Lafayette Oxford Library Commission, Mississippi Hills Foundation for Tomorrow, and the Heritage Area Alliance, and Southern Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. Literary Trails. The conference is par-

The conference is open to the public without charge. To assure seating space, those interested in attending should preregister. Reservations and advance payment are required for a cocktail buffet on Thursday ($50). Reservations are required for lunch hosted by the Williams Library on Thursday and a picnic a picnic hosted by the University Press of Mississippi on Saturday. Call 662-925- 5993 or visit www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com for more information or to register for conference programs.

For more information concerning the conference, contact: Center for the For tourist information, contact: For information about books and Study of Southern Culture Oxford Convention authors, contact: The University of Mississippi and Visitors Bureau Square Books P.O. Box 1848 102 Ed Perry Boulevard 160 Courthouse Square University, MS 38677-1848 Oxford, MS 38655 Oxford, MS 38655 telephone 662-915-5993 telephone 800-758-9177 telephone 800-468-4001 fax 662-915-5814 662-232-2367 • fax 662-232-8680 662-236-2262 • fax 662-234-9630 e-mail [email protected] www.oxfordcvb.com www.squarebooks.com/ www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 17 Howorth on Hannah Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books and former mayor of ing a National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/ Oxford (2001–2009), reflects on his friend Barry Hannah as au- Faulkner Award for the best first novel. The following year thor, teacher, and influence on the Oxford literary scene. Viking published a second novel, Nightwatchmen, furthering Hannah’s status as a deep talent, and he was hired to teach The literary life of Oxford, Mississippi, took a dramatic at Clemson. By 1978 he had published enough short fiction turn in the spring of 1982 when the late Evans Harrington, in magazines for the legendary editor at Knopf, Gordon Lish, longtime English Department Chairman at Ole Miss, hired to issue Airships, a story collection that continues to be one Barry Hannah to teach creative writing. Hannah had pub- of the most influential books for fiction writing students, and lished several books and taught at Clemson and Alabama which includes “Testimony of Pilot,” one of the most widely by 1982, but had met Evans Harrington many years earlier anthologized American short stories of the past 30 years. as a student at his hometown school, Mississippi College, in With Airships, Hannah’s writing had received reviews Clinton. Harrington had come to talk to MC students about and recognition from distinguished critics and other writ- writing that day, and Hannah once told me that he knew he ers, with such descriptions as “old as hell and modern as hell” wanted to be a writer when he saw Evans Harrington, saying (William Price Fox); “lyrical and half-crazed” (Harry Crews); that “he was so handsome and cool, with his tweed coat and “explosive but meticulous originality” (Cynthia Ozick); “vio- his pipe.” lent honesty and power” (Alfred Kazin); “inexpressibly sin- Barry Hannah became the first student to receive an gular” (James Dickey); and “half a dozen brilliant new voic- MFA from the creative writing program at the University of es” (Philip Roth). Hannah was said to be using language in a Arkansas. His first novel,Geronimo Rex, garnered critical ac- way that his jazz idol, Miles Davis, played music; indeed, his claim when it was published by Viking Press in 1972, becom- writing style often is noted for having a musical quality. Bruce Newman

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Page 18 Winter 2010 The Southern Register Entrekin at Grove Atlantic, the imprint for both the stories Barry Hannah, 1985 of High Lonesome and the novel, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, a title borrowed from a lyric by Bob Dylan, another musician who might be said to share a certain quality with Hannah. In Martin Scorcese’s film about Dylan, it is clear that genius is not simply a quality this artist applies to his work; it is part of his nature. Hannah’s writing similarly shows his ear for language as a kind of genius, the element of which perhaps does not come as a result of arduous application to craft; it is, as with Dylan, a resident trait of self. There is a notable differ- ence, however, between Hannah and Dylan: the prominent aspect of Dylan’s genius is serious irony, which is often tire- some, whereas for Hannah the frequent companion is humor, of which there never seems to be enough. This characteristic never fails to shine in personal conversation with Hannah, at least with this petty biographer. Over the nearly three decades that Barry Hannah has lived in Oxford and taught at Ole Miss, his life has gained him the devotion of his wife, Susan, the love of his family and friends, the admiration of his readers and his students, respect of his colleagues, kinship with his community, and the undying affection of his many very highly attentive dogs. Maude Schuyler Clay

Having moved to Oxford less than two years after Willie Richard Howorth Morris had come here, Hannah and Willie each became to January 24, 2010 some degree “the other writer in town,” a characterization that annoyed both because they were very different. Willie was the nonfiction writer, Rhodes Scholar, accomplished journalist, editor, and belles-lettrist; Barry was the wild man of modern fiction, a jazzy mix of biker-beatnik, rebel-artiste, and gentleman-hepcat. Willie wore his khakis and loafers, cruising around town in his Buick; Barry, shades and a leath- er jacket, on a motorcycle. One week Willie would be quoted in Newsweek, Barry in Rolling Stone. They both came from the same sort of small-town Mississippi and, roughly, of the same era, which is to say they shared a fundamental knowledge of the same sorts of people and things. But their DNA was so very different, as was their literature, and the alchemy of the two in Oxford at the same time helped create a rich and magical period of cultural history here. Hannah would publish three more books at Knopf—Ray (a favorite among many Hannah afficianados),The Tennis Handsome (whose publication in 1983 made for the writer’s first event at Square Books), andCaptain Maximus. By 1987 Seymour Lawrence, the wily independent publisher of a number of prominent writers, attracted the author to his imprint and published Hey Jack!, and their relationship served to strengthen Lawrence’s connection to Oxford, to the ex- tent that he eventually moved here. The house he bought and moved into with the writer Joan Williams, across the street from Rowan Oak, today is used as the home for John and Renée Grisham visiting writers. Lawrence published Boomerang, Never Die, and, in 1993, a feast of 23 fabulous stories entitled Bats Out of Hell, marking a highly prolific period for the short story master. Upon Lawrence’s death in early 1994, Barry Hannah, who much of his career has chosen to eschew an agent and deal directly with his publisher, began a relationship with Morgan Barry Hannah at Square Books, early 1980s

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 19 The Write Stuff for Kids Each year the Oxford Conference for when she messed up, Momma messed the Book showcases two writers who up perfectly.” But just a couple days be- specialize in books for young readers. fore Mibs’s own savvy is revealed, ev- All participating Oxford-area fifth- and erything changes. Part fantasy, part ninth-grade students receive personal science fiction, and part supernatural copies of novels from the selected au- coming-of-age tale, Mibs’s story is the thors (courtesy of the Junior Auxiliary adventure of a regular girl with not-so- of Oxford, the Lafayette County regular talent. Literary Council, and Square Books Jr.) Watt Key was born and raised in and also have a chance to hear the au- south Alabama and sites among his in- thors speak about their work during the fluences “the time I spent fourteen days conference. In addition, selected fifth- in the swamp, living off what I killed,” and ninth-grade classes from Mississippi which included, among other things, an Teacher Corps and Teach for America opossum. Alabama Moon is his first pub- schools in the Mississippi Delta have lished book, but he had written 10 nov- been invited to join the Young Authors els by the time it had sold. Currently, events this year. In 2009 Trenton Lee Key lives in Alabama with his fami- Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society) ly. His second novel, Dirt Road Home, spoke to the fifth grade and Jay Asher comes out in July 2010, but the first sto- (Thirteen Reasons Why) met with high ry he ever wrote was about a collie sur- school students. Other notable authors viving a tornado. from past Young Authors Fairs include Alabama Moon, the 2010 selection Laurie Halse Anderson, Christopher for ninth graders, won the 2007 E. B. Paul Curtis, Margaret McMullan, John White Read Aloud award and was re- Green, and Mildred D. Taylor. The cently made into a feature film. The 2010 young people’s authors are, for book is the story of 10-year-old Moon fifth graders, Ingrid Law, and for ninth Blake, a boy raised by his father in graders, Watt Key. the Alabama wilderness. When his fa- Ingrid Law was born in New York, ther is injured, and subsequently dies, but moved to Colorado when she was Moon must fend for himself in the out- six years old where her father was a side world of which he knows nothing. teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. Eventually, he is captured and sent to During her childhood in Colorado, Law a government-run reform school where was a voracious reader and loved stories he meets Kit, a soft-spoken boy with a about magic and adventure. Some of troubled family life. The two eventually her favorites growing up were the Anne break out of the school and set off on an of Green Gables series by Lucy Maude adventure across Alabama. Moon Blake Montgomery, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord is the 21st-century cousin of the origi- of the Rings trilogy, and the Chronicles nal boy-adventurer, Huckleberry Finn. of Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander. savvy (a super-hero-type talent) would Like Huck, Moon is torn between the Savvy, the first novel by Law, was se- be flying or breathing underwater. freedom and excitement that life on the lected as the fifth grade book this year, Savvy is story of almost-13-year-old run in the wilderness provides and the but she just finished Savvy’s follow-up, Mississippi “Mibs” Beaumont and the comfort and family the civilized world Scumble, the story of a relative of Savvy’s rest of the Beaumont clan, who have re- can offer. Beaumont family, which will be out in cently relocated from the Coast to the Participating fifth and ninth grad- April 2010. Savvy is a Newbery Honor middle of the country: “nowhere near ers will have the opportunity to meet book, a New York Times bestseller, and or nearby or next to or close to or on with Law and Key during the morning a film version of the novel is currently or around any largish bodies of water.” Literature for Young Readers panels at in the works from Walden Media (The Reason for that? Mibs’s brother Fish the Ford Center on campus on March 5, Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe). Law had received for his 13th birthday the beginning at 9:00 a.m. Students, teach- still lives in Colorado with her 13-year- savvy of hurricane-making. Hence the ers, parents, and other fans of the authors’ old daughter, writes full-time, blogs at move inland. Mibs’s grandfather’s savvy work are invited to attend a book signing straightfromthejar.blogspot.com (fea- caused a half-dozen Midwestern states at Square Books Jr. that afternoon. turing scans of Savvy’s international- to move around. Mibs’s mama has a sav- edition jackets!), and claims that her vy, too: perfection in all things. “Even Sally Cassady Lyon

Page 20 Winter 2010 The Southern Register The University Press of Mississippi at 40 Throughout this year, the University Press of Mississippi (UPM) will be hosting special events to mark its 40th anniversary, including two events at the Oxford Conference for the Book. Founded in 1970, the Press has long been a home for publications showcasing Southern literature, art, and culture. In 1989, the Press published Eudora Welty: Photographs, gar- nering a front page review in the New York Times Book Review and introduc- ing the world to Miss Welty’s remarkable photographic work. Other notable volumes have included Birney Imes’s Juke Joint, The Art of Walter Anderson, and the guidebook Blues Traveling. The Press is also known to scholars and fans the world over for its two series of interview volumes: Literary Conversations and Conversations with Filmmakers. ery year written by authors from all over Above: Seetha Srinivasan (left), accept- the world. ing the Publisher’s Recognition The publishing program is focused on Award from the Toni Morrison the humanities, with areas of strength Society in 2008 for her out- in African American studies, literature, standing work as editor and pub- film and popular culture, comics studies, lisher in the area of Morrison music history, Mississippi and regional scholarship, is pictured here studies, and folklore. The Press has pub- with the author. lished more than 900 titles and distrib- Left: UPM staff Walter Biggins, uted more than 2,500,000 copies world- Craig Gill, and Leila Salisbury wide. UPM is a 501(c)(3) organization converse with UPM board mem- with a full-time staff of 17 and annual ber Susan Allen Ford during sales of approximately $2 million. at a campus visit at Delta State The Press has won awards and achieved University in the fall of 2008. acclaim in three areas of the humanities: African American history and culture, Press books have dominated competi- disseminate its high quality content to folklore, and literature and literary criti- tion for the American Folklore Society’s readers worldwide. So at 40 years, the cism. Its publishing program began with prestigious and coveted Chicago Folklore Press celebrates four decades of pub- William Ferris’s Mississippi Black Folklore Prize, with Press authors winning the lishing the finest works about art, cul- (1971). Though its early focus was on honor in three of four the last four years. ture, and literature and looks ahead to the state’s life and history, the Press made In 2008, UPM was one of three presses to continuing its mission of excellence a concerted effort to broaden its editori- receive a joint five-year, $500,000 grant through traditional print and new elec- al program. With an understanding and from the Mellon Foundation to support tronic offerings. appreciation of evolving areas of schol- publications and innovation in this field UPM takes as its mission the publi- arly communication, the Press expanded of scholarship. cation of scholarly books of the highest its scope to encompass popular culture, The Press began a comprehensive distinction and books that interpret the including comics studies, and ground- digital publishing program in 2008. South and its culture for the nation and breaking studies in folk art and folklore. UPM now publishes all rights-avail- the world. UPM is the state’s only not- The Press is also proud to partner with able titles simultaneously in print and for-profit publisher and is partly support- the Center for the Study of Southern electronic formats, and over the next ed by and serves all eight of Mississippi’s Culture on two important book se- several years the Press will begin con- public universities. Governed by an ed- ries: the Chancellor Porter L. Fortune version of hundreds of older titles. As itorial board comprising two represen- Symposium in Southern History Series, the popularity of reading devices, such tatives from each university and two and the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha as the Kindle, grows and as libraries de- members from the board of the IHL, the Series, which now includes 26 volumes velop their collections with e-books, Press acquires, edits, designs, and pro- that represent the premier gathering of UPM seeks to use new technologies to motes approximately 70 new books ev- Faulkner scholarship.

The Southern Register Winter 2010 Page 21 Southern Arts Federation Workshops The Southern Arts Federation has Poetry Craft Talk Fiction and Poetry Writing Workshops awarded a grant to support special work- “The Craft of Writing the Political Overby Center Rooms TBA shops during the Oxford Conference Poem” Saturday, March 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m. for the Book. Poets Mark Jarman and Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library Writers of poetry and short fiction are in- E. Ethelbert Miller will present read- Friday, March 5, 2010, Noon vited to submit a short manuscript for cri- ings and also conduct poetry workshops. The public is invited to attend a pre- tique by two acclaimed authors, fiction Donna Hemans will present a reading sentation by noted poet E. Ethelbert writer Donna Hemans and poet Mark and conduct a fiction workshop. The Miller. His presentation will be a craft Jarman. Interested individuals should two authors of books for young read- talk, of interest to writers and read- send one poem or no more than 10 pag- ers—Ingrid Law and Watt Key—will ers of poetry. The event will include es of fiction to Blair Hobbs, Department join literacy advocates Elaine H. Scott lunch and is open to the public with- of English, The University of Mississippi, and Claiborne Barksdale in a discus- out charge. Deadline for Reservations: University, MS 38677; e-mail vhobbs@ sion about reading and writing problems Monday, March 1, 2010. olemiss.edu. Manuscripts should in- and opportunities. Teachers from lo- clude name and contact information. cal schools, Teach for America schools Depending on number of manuscripts in the Mississippi Delta, Mississippi received, workshop manuscripts may be Teacher Corps schools, librarians, edu- selected on basis of quality. These work- cation students, writers of poetry and fic- shops will meet concurrently on Saturday, tion, and other interested persons are in- March 6, at 9 a.m. The workshops are free vited to attend. Continuing Education and open to the public. Deadline for sub- Units are available for conference and missions: Wednesday, February 24, 2010. workshop participants.

E. Ethelbert Miller is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Whispers, Secrets, and Promises and First Light: New and Selected Poems. His memoir, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer, was selected in 2003 for the One Book, One City program sponsored by the Washington, D.C., Public Libraries. He has been director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University since 1974.

(above) Mark Jarman is the author of Claiborne Barksdale is executive direc- numerous collections of poetry and Iris, tor of the Barksdale Reading Institute at a book-length poem. His poetry and es- the University of Mississippi. Previously, says have been published widely in such he practiced law in Jackson, worked for periodicals and journals as the New Senator Thad Cochran, and was a clerk Yorker, Southern Review, and Yale Review. for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. (left) Donna Hemans is the author of the novel River Woman, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2003; CEUs Continuing Education Units will be available for teachers and others her short fiction has been published nu- who attend Oxford Conference for the Book programs and workshops. A person merous literary journals. She leads fiction must attend at least 5 hours of instruction to receive CEUs. The conference of- writing workshops at the Writer’s Center fers a total of 16 hours (1.6 units). The cost is $20. Participants should complete in Bethesda, Maryland, and has twice CEU registration forms and pay the fee when they check in at the conference. been writer in residence at Georgetown University. Page 22 Winter 2010 The Southern Register “The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow” O’Connors Offer Book and Overby Center Auditorium Saturday, March 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m. Claiborne Barksdale, Watt Key, Ingrid Author Publicity Session Law, and Elaine Scott will discuss So, you’ve written the book and found reading problems and opportunities a publisher. Now what? For many au- and address written questions submit- thors, the writing and editing are the ted prior to the Saturday morning ses- easy parts. But getting copies to book sion. Teachers should send their ques- reviewers? Writing press releases? tions to Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, Hiring a publicist? Not all publishing School of Education, The University of houses, probably only a handful of Mississippi, University, MS 386777; e- them, have their own in-house pub- mail [email protected]. licity departments. It’s up to you the Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, writer to beat the pavement and get February 24, 2010. the word out yourself. Fear not, dear writer! At this year’s Oxford Conference for the Book, Lynda and James O’Connor, who op- erate a husband-and-wife public relations firm in Chicago, will once again lead a workshop titled “Promoting Your Book and Yourself.” The O’Connors will discuss effective ways James O’Connor to acquire media coverage beyond book reviews, explain how to find and contact members of the media, and explore creative ways to get fa- vorable exposure. In addition, Lynda and Jim will cover such topics as using the Internet and viral marketing, overcoming fear, and the pros and cons of hiring your own publicist. Lynda and Jim O’Connor have operated their own public relations firm in Chicago for 21 years and have specialized in promoting books and authors since 2006, begin- Elaine H. Scott is former chair of the ning with Jim’s book, Cuss Control: Arkansas State Board of Education, a The Complete Book on How to Curb member of the Education Commission of Your Cursing. Cuss Control took the States (1987–1997), and a leader in the duo to over 100 television pro- several organizations concerned with edu- grams, all the way from Oprah to the cation, teacher training, libraries, and lit- O’Reilly Factor. Their clients call the eracy. She has worked with the Reading O’Connors “tireless, tenacious, creative, enthusiastic and dedicated.” Is Fundamental program since 1974 and Lynda O’Connor received the RIF Leader for Literacy The workshop will be at Off Square Award in April 1994. Books on Friday, March 5, at 7 p.m. The O’Connors, in addition to leading the workshop, have offered to schedule individual meetings with conference registrants. To schedule an appointment, sign up at the registration desk or give one of them a call: Lynda’s number is 847-863-5017. Jim’s is 847-863-3591.

Sally Cassady Lyon

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The Mississippi Institute of Arts and In the category of Poetry are nomi- Letters (MIAL) has chosen William nees D. C. Berry, Jack Crocker, Kendall Ferris, the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Dunkelberg, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Larry Professor of History and senior associate Johnson, and Greg Miller. director of the Center for the Study of Fiction nominees are Frederick the American South at the University Barthelme, John Grisham, Greg Isles, of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as the Margaret McMullan, Kathryn Stockett, recipient of its Lifetime Achievement and Quentin Whitwell. Award. The presentation will be made The Nonfiction nominees are Alex at the annual Awards Gala on June 5, Alston and James Dickerson, David W. 2010, at the Mississippi Museum of Art Beckwith, D. C. Berry, Gene Dattel, in Jackson. Richard Howorth, owner Charles W. Eagles, W. Ralph Eubanks, of Square Books in Oxford, will be the Alan Huffman, Alan Lange and Tom master of ceremonies. Dawson, Stokes McMillan, David A native of Vicksburg, William R. Magee, Deanne Stephens Nuwer, and Ferris is the founding director of the Neil White. Center for the Study of Southern The Visual Arts nominees are Duncan Culture at the University of Mississippi, Baird, Charles Crossley, Millie Howell, where he served on the faculty for 18 Chris Minor, Sandra Murchison, Carol years. He also is the former chair- Piggott, Lee Rennigar, and Elizabeth man of the National Endowment William Ferris Veglia. for the Humanities and coeditor of Photography nominees are Will the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Jacks, Eyd Kazery, Gloria Norris, Kim Named one of the Top Ten Professors in art, music, and dance to pay tribute to Rushing, and Michael Lloyd Young. the United States by Rolling Stone mag- Walter Anderson and his family. In Music Composition–Classical the azine, Ferris is the author of the recent- Awards will also be presented for nominees are Ken Davies, Albert C. ly published Give My Poor Heart Ease: works first shown, published, or per- Oppenheimer, and Shandy Phillips. Voices of the Mississippi Blues. formed in 2009 in the categories of po- The nominees for Music Composition– A rare Special Achievement Award etry, fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, pho- Popular are Johnny Bertram, Caroline will be presented for The Passions tography, and music composition, both Herring, Nash Street, and Jamie of Walter Anderson: A Dramatic classical and popular. Artists must have Weems. Celebration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast significant ties to the state of Mississippi Winners in each category will re- Artist. First performed in 2009 at the and must have been nominated by an ceive a cash prize and a Mississippi- Oxford Conference for the Book, this MIAL member. Judges in each category made gift. Past winners include Willie interdisciplinary work combines drama, are chosen from outside Mississippi. Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Richard Ford, Ellen Douglas, Samuel Jones, and Walker Percy. The Passions of Walter Anderson: Mark Wiggs of Jackson serves as president of the Mississippi Institute of A Dramatic Celebration of the Arts and Letters. Past president is Ann Abadie of Oxford. Jan Taylor of Jackson Mississippi Gulf Coast Artist is treasurer, and Margaret Anne Robbins Adapted by Alex Mauney from the Writings of of Pontotoc is secretary. Anyone may join MIAL and thus Agnes and Walter Inglis Anderson be eligible to nominate artists in each in collaboration with category. For more information about Jimmyle Listenbee, Amanda Malloy, Kevin Malloy, membership and about attending the Rhona Justice-Malloy, Jared Spears, and Michael Barnett awards ceremony and banquet on June 5, 2010, visit the website www.ms-arts- Meek Hall Auditorium letters.org. The University of Mississippi March 26, 27, and 28, 2009 Mary Thompson

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Awakenings: The Story of the Norwegian Per Seyersted’s “recent- Kate Chopin Revival. ly published edition of her complete Edited by Bernard Koloski. works.” A contemporaneous graduate student, Emily Toth, was protest- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State ing the Vietnam War in Baltimore University Press, 2009. 226 when a friend put an orange paperback pages. $35.00 cloth. Awakening into her book bag. “It gave me a lifetime of questions that I’m still “Many of the pieces are page-turn- pondering,” says Toth, who answers ers,” Peggy Prenshaw promises in her others’ questions as “Ms. Mentor” for blurb for this essay collection on the the Chronicle of Higher Education. rediscovery of Kate Chopin; and she “Feminisms” is the title for the five- is right. Chopin’s own page-turn- essay part 1 of Awakenings. The gos- er, The Awakening, retains its power sipy tone of Toth’s Chronicle columns over readers, even though more than is refreshingly present in “My Part in a century has passed since the nov- Reviving Kate Chopin,” with scenes el’s publication in 1899. Each con- of herself as “a snobbish grad student,” tributor to the appropriately titled a young assistant professor, and a 40- Awakenings has published at least year-old biographer for whom “the one book on the author. While they time was ripe, for biographers no lon- are quick to credit their professors, ger had to be keepers of their subjects’ friends, colleagues, and predecessors, al reflection and scholarly discussion secrets.” Essayist Barbara C. Ewell editor Bernard Koloski and his fel- come together in intriguing ways; but credits Ann Abadie of the Center for low essayists are all well-known fig- the professors’ earliest Chopin memo- the Study of Southern Culture with ures in the Chopin revival. Among ries comprise an especially appealing helping her secure a national grant them, the group of 12 has produced facet of Awakenings. to work on Chopin early in her ca- several editions of Chopin’s writings, Aboard a segregated New Orleans reer as an authority in Southern lo- as well as biographies, bibliographies, streetcar in 1956, Thomas Bonner Jr. cal color literature. Ewell became “a essay collections, and books of liter- read “Désirée’s Baby” for high school full-fledged, card-carrying feminist” ary criticism on her famous novel, her freshman English and “came the near- the semester she “stripped the men less famous novel, At Fault, and her est that I had ever been to what I lat- away” from her women-in-literature many short stories. er learned was an epiphany, the open- course. In “Bringing Kate Chopin to Koloski describes this three-part vol- ing of an unforeseen question.” The Britain: A Transatlantic Perspective,” ume as a “literary foundation narrative” racially motivated tragedy in Chopin’s the British Helen Taylor describes her that “focuses on what happened a gen- story made him reflect that passen- “immersion in Louisiana archives,” eration ago and why—and how that gers sitting in front of a streetcar’s where she ironically found the impor- literary activity looks today.” The un- Jim Crow sign “were frequently dark- tance of European influences on the conventional accounts gathered here er than the people behind it.” Anna Francophone, bilingual Chopin. The are well suited to the unconvention- Shannon Elfenbein was in high school Awakening, says Taylor, “has opened al Kate Chopin, whose frank descrip- in the ’60s; but “no one I knew had doors to new British readers of south- tions of women’s sexuality shocked ever heard of Kate Chopin,” she says. ern literature in ways other south- many of her contemporaries. In fasci- At graduate school in 1973, Elfenbein ern works (notably those by William nating detail, the essayists recall their overheard a “sotto voce conversa- Faulkner) have failed to do.” Barbara initial encounters with Chopin’s fiction” about Chopin’s “The Storm” in H. Solomon, editor of The Awakening tion between the 1950s and the 1980s, a women’s restroom at the University for the New American Library, de- when the Louisiana writer’s long ne- of Nebraska and “went straight to fines the qualities of a literary clas- glected texts again became available. the library” to find the story (unpub- sic and comments on the unpredict- Throughout the collection, person- lished during Chopin’s lifetime) in ability of an author’s popularity over

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long periods of time. Like Taylor, ume’s final essay, Koloski, too, relates in the early 20th century. Martin’s Mary E. Papke emphasizes Chopin’s a shift in perspective; his Fulbright sketches, which examine a five-coun- biculturalism in an essay that opens years in Poland in the early 1980s ty span from Jasper County at the with Papke’s own bicultural experi- opened his eyes to the reality of pov- Savannah River to Colleton County ence: “I was a poor graduate student erty in much of the short fiction. “I just south of Charleston, are vivid and living in a cold-water basement flat had viewed Chopin through many tell the story of sites primarily studied in a city in which I did not speak the lenses,” says Koloski, “but economics and understood as they were before the majority language.” She bought The was not one of them.” Like Taylor, Civil War. Awakening at an “English-language Papke, and Bonner, he is also sensi- Martin’s contemporary accounts feminist bookstore” in Montreal and tive to French influences on Chopin, function as advertisements for the was so “profoundly shocked” that she particularly in the darker stories of A development of a region that, at the changed the focus of her studies from Vocation and a Voice. time, had little infrastructure or busi- Marxist criticism and radical drama Suggesting that Chopin stands ness investments. The editor of the to Chopin and Edith Wharton. apart from “other writers focused on News and Courier viewed the influx In the first of four essays in women’s concerns,” Koloski could be of capital from Northern investors as “Foundations,” part 2 of the collec- summing up the whole collection in a boon to the coastal region, which tion, Bonner explains how he devel- concluding: “It’s that undercurrent of had never recovered from the eco- oped essential tools for the study of external forces and internal tensions, nomic devastation of the Civil War. Chopin, from an annotated bibliog- of French language and culture and At a time of nationwide economic de- raphy to a glossary of names, plac- American optimism and hope, that pression, Northern money meant de- es, and other allusions. Robert D. makes her the extraordinary writer velopment, and the News and Courier Arner, author of the first modern we know her to be.” The imaginative was an unabashed booster of land ac- American dissertation on Chopin, and dedicated scholars of Awakenings quisition by persons of means. Hoffius stresses the need for further studies are not daunted by undercurrents. notes that “the story of South Carolina of such complex stories as “A Pair of coastal development is not just what Silk Stockings.” “The Death of Edna Joan Wylie Hall Yankees did to Southerners; it was all Pontellier and the Card Catalogue” business, and South Carolinians prof- by Marlene Springer evokes “the ited too.” In the world portrayed by perils of trying to track down sourc- Martin, sectional conflict was medi- es in a pre-Internet age,” as she did Northern Money, Southern ated and forgotten in the exchange for her 1976 Chopin-Wharton bibli- Land: The Lowcountry of stunningly beautiful land for much- ography. Lynda S. Boren’s “Romantic Plantation Sketches of needed capital. Overtures” proposes that isolation is Martin discussed 80 estates in more the defining characteristic of roman- Chlotilde R. Martin. than 50 articles, most of which were tic literature like The Awakening; al- Edited by Robert B. Cuthbert purchased as hunting preserves and though “utterly alone” at the end of and Stephen G. Hoffius. encompassed thousands, or tens of the novel, Edna is nevertheless “in Columbia: University of thousands, of acres. The investors of- total possession of self.” ten made joint purchases of land to Like Arner, the three essayists in South Carolina Press, 2009. create exclusive clubs, such as the part 3, “Expansions,” call for deep- 272 pages. $34.95 cloth. Okeetee Club, known for its require- er investigation of specific aspects ment of formal evening dress for din- of the fiction. Short story theorist In this annotated collection of ner. Martin’s sketches include highly Susan Lohafer believes Chopin “has Chlotilde Martin’s 1930s Charleston detailed accounts of the interior and something to offer those of us who News and Courier articles about the exterior features of the houses, which are working in the boundary zone purchase of Lowcountry plantations by ranged from very simple hunting lodg- between genre theory and cognitive Northern investors, Robert Cuthbert es to the restoration or construction of science.” Elfenbein has revised her and Stephen Hoffius provide a window “ornate mansions of brick or stone.” original view of Edna Pontellier as an into a little-studied time in the histo- During the investors’ winter-time res- “exemplary” character and now sees ry of Southern plantations. Drawn by idences on their Carolina plantations, her as “a cautionary one whose con- cheap land and a desire to create pris- they enjoyed ideal conditions for bird ventional, class-bound attitudes not tine hunting preserves, Northern in- hunting, a mild climate, and, most only harm other women”—especial- dustrialists and bankers with names importantly, privacy. ly women of color—“but also circum- like DuPont, Kress, and Vanderbilt be- As Hoffius humorously notes in scribe her sense of self.” In the vol- gan purchasing land in the Lowcountry the introduction, “What happened

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in Yemassee stayed in Yemassee.” These plantations, accessed down Eudora Welty Review long lanes and often far remote from neighbors because of their vast size, Volume 1 (Spring 2009) were the settings for debauchery im- Pearl McHaney, editor. possible for business leaders con- strained by the dictates of Boston or Eudora Welty would have turned 100 in New York society. Locals told stories 2009. She wasn’t here to celebrate, but of wild parties complete with “show- the many readers and students of her girls.” Cat Island near Beaufort was work did it for her, with, among other the site of the first nudist camp in tributes, a birthday party at her house America, though the inhabitants as- in Jackson and a yearlong engagement sured Martin that they were nothing with her Collected Stories through the beyond newly minted farmers disen- Mississippi Reads program. And that was chanted by city life. just in Mississippi. Exhibitions and pro- Martin, who would work for the grams in Georgia, Virginia, New York, Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Pennsylvania, and California marked Progress Administration a few years the occasion as well, in addition to vari- after she produced the plantation ous international commemorations. sketches, had the chatty prose style Martin’s News and Courier articles The study of Welty and her work of a society columnist. She paired allow one to understand the impor- has long depended on the Eudora factual information with flowery and tant legacy of Northern landhold- Welty Newsletter, begun in 1977 at poetic accounts of the sites, and her ing in the early 20th century. While the University of Toledo by W. U. enjoyment of the assignment is evi- Hoffius and Cuthbert note that McDonald Jr. Published biannually, dent. Cuthbert and Hoffius provide many of the plantations described the Newsletter was expressly devot- context for Martin’s sometimes curso- by Martin have been subdivided into ed to publishing brief bibliograph- ry commentary. The editors note that residential developments (many of ic notes and announcements of new Martin was discouraged from delving which bear the name of the original publications by and about the author; too deeply into historical records, plantation), a small but significant Noel Polk described it in 1999 as as her role as a journalist prevented amount of land originally acquired by “this beloved twice-yearly potpour- her the time to study land deeds and Northern investors remains intact, ri of miscellaneous scholarly notes plats, a task her editor at the News with much of it placed under con- and notices.” When the Newsletter and Courier deemed better suited to servation easements in recent years. moved in 1997 to Georgia State lawyers. To gather some semblance of Martin’s sketches play an important University under the capable editor- a historical background for the plan- role in telling the story of conserva- ship of Pearl McHaney, it expanded tations, Martin relied on the story- tion in the Lowcountry. its scope and began to include short telling of locals and on the tropes of The context that Cuthbert and scholarly treatments of Welty’s work the Lost Cause so present in contem- Hoffius provide for Martin’s sketch- as well. In concert with the centen- porary popular culture. Martin writes es illustrates the evolution of the nial of Welty’s birth, and follow- very little about the black full-time Lowcountry plantation, from the co- ing the publication of 65 issues, the residents who inhabited the coast- lonial period to its present day re- Newsletter has taken one more step al swath she was surveying and who imagination as a carefully manicured forward, this time transforming itself served as caretakers of the planta- multifamily real estate development. into the Eudora Welty Review. Edited tions. When she did include the Northern Money, Southern Land is at by McHaney and guided by Advisory black residents in her accounts, she once a travel guide for those curious and Editorial Boards comprised of again relied on the kind of language about where the live oak alleés lead, leading Welty scholars, the Eudora characteristic of Lost Cause romanc- an exploration of sectional reconcili- Welty Review will continue the bib- es that celebrated the “happy times” ation through commerce, and a foun- liographic work of the Newsletter but of slavery. There is an ephemeral dation for understanding conserva- now devote itself primarily to the quality to Martin’s accounts of an- tion and development in the South publication of scholarly essays. tebellum life on the plantations that Carolina Lowcountry. To mark this transition, the first seems to acknowledge the mythic na- volume of the Eudora Welty Review is ture of the stories even as she revels Becca Walton a collection of notes and short articles in them. originally published in the Newsletter.

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The volume opens with Elizabeth drawn to one book or story over others with The Ponder Heart (Eichelberger Spencer’s introduction to a reading at different moments in that 20-year and Fell, whose intriguing focus is Joe given by Welty in 1979, includes two span? Or is it not really possible or use- Krush, the novel’s illustrator). A wel- notes from Peggy Whitman Prenshaw ful to judge? Those questions aside, the come surprise are two articles about from 1978 and 1982, and concludes 21 essays included from that 11-year The Shoe Bird (Michaels, Hoyt), with two reviews, one by Daniele period address a range of Welty’s work, Welty’s one book allegedly for children Pitavy-Souques recounting a spe- usually relying on fairly traditional but and thus unfortunately absent from cial Welty issue of the French jour- valuable readings of the texts them- even the Library of America’s compila- nal Delta V and a second, omnibus re- selves. There are treatments of famil- tion of her work. Into a sort of miscella- view by Michael Kreyling of three es- iar stories, “A Worn Path” (Stang) and neous category fall Lois Welch’s treat- say collections published in 1978 and “Why I Live at the P.O.” (Russel), as ment of Welty’s humor, John Ferrone’s 1979 about Welty’s work. As Kreyling well as two engagements with Welty’s recollections of working with the au- points out, scholarship about Welty more troubling “Clytie” (Cohoon, thor to compile The Collected Stories was gaining momentum by the late McLaughlin). Perhaps most fascinat- of Eudora Welty (1980), Joan Hall’s 1970s; it was possible to locate inno- ing is McHaney’s publication histo- observations on Welty’s reference in vative approaches to her work at the ry of “Magic,” a Welty short story re- One Writer’s Beginnings to the forbid- same time that certain critical perspec- printed for the first time (since its de- den Elsie Dinsmore series, Stuart Kidd’s tives were becoming commonplace. but in the September-October 1936 reading of Welty’s Mississippi photo- But the bulk of the entries in the issue of a short-lived magazine called graphs, and Maria Sciacco’s study of inaugural Eudora Welty Review were Manuscript) in the Summer 2004 issue Welty’s reception in Italy. originally published in the Newsletter of the Newsletter. There is one reading The first volume of theEudora Welty between 1997 and 2008. As a result, of The Robber Bridegroom (Ramirez), Review is, then, a bit scattershot and the reader of the volume gets no sense two of Delta Wedding (Snow and vaguely unsatisfying. That remark is of what was happening in the world Romines, who includes a reconstructed meant, not as criticism, but as opti- of Welty scholarship during the bet- recipe for Mashula’s coconut cake and mism for the Review’s future success. ter part of two decades, the 1980s and an argument for its significance in the The more expansive scholarly articles 1990s. Were there shifts in the focus of novel). There are three essays dealing made possible by the Review’s format submissions the Newsletter was receiv- with various facets of The Golden Apples will engage the growing community of ing? Were readers and scholars more (Shimkus, Gordon, Bayne) and two Welty scholars in new ways, as well as appeal to critics of United States litera- And Speaking of Miss Welty. . . . ture more broadly. Signaling the impor-

Kay Bell tance of Welty to that wider Do you have a son who just may be the next Rich- audience, the Eudora Welty ard Wright? A daughter who can channel her inner Review promises to become O’Connor with a flick of a pen? If so, encourage these the outlet for the best schol- young people to enter stories and poems for consider- arship produced about the ation in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s writer, the journal that other annual Eudora Welty Awards. Schools may submit one journals will cite as the defini- entry per category. tive source about her and her Students should be Mississippi resident ninth through work. In many ways that was twelfth graders and must submit writing through their already true; the Newsletter high schools. Maximum length of short stories is 3,000 has since its inception been words and of poetry, 100 lines. Winners and nomi- the authority on textual vari- nating schools will be notified in May. First place car- ants, collations, scholarly ries a $500 prize and second place, $250, plus recog- checklists, and events show- nition by Center director Ted Ownby at the opening of the 2010 Faulkner casing Welty’s writing and the schol- and Yoknapatawpha Conference on the University campus in July. Entries arship generated by it. In retaining the should be postmarked by April 15, 2010, and will be judged by University Newsletter’s most frequently consulted of Mississippi English professors. Applications and submission requirements features, while extending its reach to have been sent to all Mississippi public and private high schools, but if you full-length critical articles, the Eudora know a Mississippi student currently enrolled in high school outside the Welty Review will surely become invalu- state or who is home-schooled, please e-mail [email protected] or call 662- able to even more readers. 915-5993 for a copy. To see a list of past winners or to download a PDF of the application, visit www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/EudoraWeltyAwards.html. Katie McKee

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SouthernRegisterWinter10.indd 1 1/25/10 3:37 PM WilliamSouthern Anderson Foodways CONTRIBUTORS Register Photography Mark Camarigg is the former assistant editor and current publications manager for Living Blues magazine. He is also a doctoral student in the Department of History at Exhibition the University of Mississippi researching Soul Blues music in the American South. The Delta State University Archives and Museum is exhib- iting A Compassionate Eye: Photography of William Anderson I’Nasah Crockett is a student in the Southern Studies through April 30, 2010. For the past four decades, driven by graduate program. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she nostalgia and humanitarian concerns, Atlanta photographer received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College. William Anderson Adam Gussow, associate professor of English and has documented Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, is the life among African author of three books on blues music. Americans in the Joan Wylie Hall teaches in the English Department Southeast. His sub- at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of jects are sharecrop- Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction and articles pers, rural families, on Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Grace King, worshippers in ec- Frances Newman, and other authors. static religious ceremonies, and oth- Richard Howorth is founder of Square Books in Oxford, ers of humble ori- Mississippi, and past president of the American Booksellers gin who remind of Association. He served as mayor of Oxford from 2001 his childhood in to 2009. He and Louis Rubin, distinguished professor of Selma, Alabama. English emeritus at the University of North Carolina and Widely exhibited, founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, were honored Anderson’s black- with the 2008 Authors Guild Award for Distinguished and-white photo- Service to the Literary Community. graphs have been Donald M. Kartiganer is Howry Professor of Faulkner acquired by numer- Studies Emeritus at the University of Mississippi and di- ous prestigious mu- rector of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. seums, including Sally Cassady Lyon works at the Center, as the director’s the National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the assistant. She is a Gulfport native and Sewanee gradu- High Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Anderson ate. Sally and her husband, Dalton, have one daughter, recently retired as an associate professor at Morehouse College Lucy Rose. and is a sculptor, painter, printmaker, and musician as well as a photographer. For more information, call the Archives office Kathryn McKee is McMullan Associate Professor of at 662-846-4780 or visit www.archives.deltastate.edu. Southern Studies and associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She coedited a special issue of the journal American Literature called “Global Contexts, Local Literatures” and is currently coediting a volume about representations of the South in film. Ted Ownby, director of the Center, holds a joint appointment in Southern Studies and History. Jimmy Thomas is managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. An alumnus of the University of Mississippi, he has worked for publications in Oxford and New York. Mary McKenzie Thompson is a retired high school teacher of English and creative writing from Clarksdale, Mississippi. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Becca Walton-Evans, a 2008 graduate of the Southern Studies master’s program, lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she works on the artistic operations staff of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.

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“There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.” —Mark Twain

2009 SFA ANNUAL REPORT

Despite the ailing economy, the SFA PRESS EVENTS had a banner 2009. Herewith, a glance back at the highlights: Global Vision Award Taste of the South at Blackberry Farm The Southern Foodways Alliance was The Fellowship of Southern Farmers, MEMBER RELATIONS chosen as a recipient of a 2009 Travel + Artisans, and Chefs, a self-elected body Leisure Global Vision Award. Introduced of our region’s finest culinary talent, con- Redesigned and Improved Gravy in 2005, the Awards recognize individu- vened in January at Blackberry Farm. We remade our newsletter into a ’zine. als and organizations “working to pre- Concurrently, Blackberry Farm staged a Gravy is no longer a PR clarion for the serve the world’s natural and man-made generous fundraiser for the SFA. SFA. We’re now publishing insightful treasures.” Fellow honorees this year in- and unexpected reportage on our re- cluded the Museum of Islamic Art and Potlikker D.C. gion. Stay tuned. the Rainforest Alliance. SFA packed the house in D.C. in April. We also got great ink from Gastronomica, Chefs, from Beard Award winners New Database the Financial Times, and a couple dozen Gillian Clark to Jeff Buben, cooked The SFA is growing up. We built a real more media arbiters. their hearts out. And more than 200 database, using a customized, nonprofit people packed the house to watch SFA version of Salesforce, one of the best DOCUMENTARY INITIATIVES documentary films at Ann Cashion’s cloud computing solutions out there, so restaurant Johnny’s Half Shell. that we can capture event attendance 450 Oral Histories Online patterns, giving patterns, and the like. We topped 450 oral histories. You read Mountain Empire Field Trip that right. We’ve now interviewed, We ranged widely this past June, from Nifty Stickers photographed, and Web archived—for the Carter Fold to the owner’s box at In an effort to recognize our loyal mem- easy access, 24 hours a day—more than Bristol Motor Speedway. Fred Sauceman bers and build brand loyalty, we began 450 row crop farmers, oystermen, and and “Rathead” Riley led the way, and printing member stickers. Renewing fried chicken cooks. the good folks from the Town House in members are now receiving their Proud Chilhowie, Virginia, cooked their veg- Citizen of the Banana Pudding Republic Oral History Interactive Map etable-loving heads off. decals. And we’ve mapped them, too. Brand new on the Web site is this travel fea- Potlikker Athens New Board Members ture, geared to help you plan your trips In August, we debuted a new film,Cud , John Currence, James Beard Award– by way of oral history subjects and the a portrait of Georgia cattle rancher Will winning chef of City Grocery in Oxford; great food they raise, cook, and serve: Harris. And we served all manner of Makale Faber Cullen, Brooklyn-based www.southernfoodways.com/documen- eats with his beef. Hugh Acheson, chef nonprofit marvel; Ted Lee, the glasses- tary/maps/index.html. and owner of the restaurant 5&10, and wearing half of the dynamic Lee Bros. Judy Long, literary provocateur, were combo; and Ted Ownby, director of 25 Documentary Films our guides. the Center for the Study of Southern Our latest film, an homage to the Big Culture, joined the Board. Apple Inn of Jackson, Mississippi, may Second Annual Viking Range Lecture be our best. Take a look here: www. In early October we hosted Warren southernfoodways.com/documentary/ film/index.html. continued on page 32 Belasco, pioneering University of Ronni Lundi get comes from the University of Maryland foodways scholar, author of Mississippi. Remaining funds come Meals to Come: A History of the Future from event fees, membership fees, foun- of Food and Appetite for Change: How dation contributions, and corporate the Counterculture Took on the Food sponsor contributions. Industry. New Sponsors 12th Southern Foodways Symposium: In 2009, SFA welcomed two new spon- Food & Music sors, Lodge Manufacturing Company Chefs ranging from David Chang of of South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, and Momofuku to Susan Spicer of Bayona Mountain Valley Spring Water of Hot convened in Oxford this past October, Springs, Arkansas. to make sense of the connectedness of food and music. So did thinkers and Dollars on Hand writers, from Bob O’Meally to Marshall We have an operating reserve of Chapman. All went home with grease $450,000, earning interest at the on their fingers and new ideas in their writers, scholars, and others, whose University of Mississippi Foundation. heads. work in the broad field of foodways Also at the Foundation, we have documents and celebrates the diverse parked an SFA Endowment of $60,000 AWARDS cultures of the American South and and a John Egerton Prize Endowment addresses issues of race, class, and gen- of $35,000. Funds to fully vest the lat- Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement der, as well as social and environmental ter, at the $100,000 mark, have been Award justice. pledged. SFA renamed our Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of Craig Claiborne, and, FUNDING PERSONNEL at a June event in New York City, celebrated Claiborne’s legacy. In October, Our Budget Additions to the Staff at the Southern Foodways Symposium, The SFA operates on a budget of In July, Julie Pickett began working we presented that award to Kentucky- approximately $525,000 per year. for us in an administrative role. She’s born author Ronni Lundy. Approximately $50,000 of that bud- proven to be a model of efficiency and enthusiasm. In October, Melissa Hall, John Egerton Prize our events maven, became a full-time SFA awarded its inaugural John Egerton employee. (She had previously worked Prize to Haley Downs and Julie Kahn, 30 hours per week.) filmmakers at work on the documentary Swamp Cabbage. The prize, in the Additions to the Staff (Family Edition) amount of $5,000, recognizes artists, Amy Evans Streeter birthed a baby girl, Sofia Grace Streeter, on October 21.

Mary Beth Lasseter birthed a baby boy, David Allen Mitchell, on December 18.

(above) Mary Beth Lasseter, SFA’s assistant director, with David Allen Mitchell (born 12/18/09)

(left) Amy Evans Streeter, SFA’s oral historian, with Sofia Grace Streeter (born 10/21/09) SFA Internships

True to our mission, we are as committed to teaching as we are projects are appropriate. If applicants do not have a specific to documenting. In an effort to mentor students in the field subject interest, the SFA can suggest subjects with whom a of oral history and initiate collaborations, we offer two kinds Guided Intern may conduct interviews. of internships. The Guided Internship is performed under the direct super- IN-HOUSE INTERNSHIP vision of the SFA’s oral historian, Amy Evans Streeter, who An In-House Internship at the SFA is a prearranged, struc- will oversee the proposed project and offer guidance before, tured learning experience usually lasting one to two weeks. during, and after the intern’s time in the field. The complet- An In-House Internship is performed on the campus of the ed project will be deposited in the SFA’s permanent archive. University of Mississippi under the direct supervision of SFA Interns have the right to utilize the interviews they conduct staff, with the SFA’s oral historian, Amy Evans Streeter, being for their own academic endeavors. the primary contact. In-House Internships are offered for either one- or two-week Availability: Once per calendar year durations, depending on interest and availability. Interns will Term: TBD; project must be completed one year from intern- conduct interviews for new or existing SFA oral history proj- ship start date. ects and/or produce multimedia pieces in support of existing Credit: Please note that the intern’s university is the grantor projects. of course credit, not the Southern Foodways Alliance or the We are interested in collecting the stories behind the food— University of Mississippi. stories about people. Please visit our Oral history Project Index Application Deadlines: TBD on an individual basis page to see what projects are already part of our archive. Stipend: TBD with a ceiling of $1,500. Half of the stipend Work completed during the internship term will be depos- will be granted upon receipt of award; the other half will be ited in the SFA’s permanent archive. Interns will have the granted upon completion of project. right to utilize the interviews they conduct for their own aca- Equipment: A personal laptop is required. The SFA has an demic endeavors. oral history kit (digital recorder, external mike, headphones, and digital camera), which will be made available for the in- Availability: Once per calendar year tern’s use, if needed. Term: one–two weeks* Possible Project Locations: The SFA is currently seeking *(If your university requires a five- or six-week internship, the content in these states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, South first two weeks will be managed in Oxford, and the remaining Carolina, and Tennessee. time will be treated as a Guided Internship, with the remaining work done off site.) Credit: Please note that the intern’s university is the grantor ELIGIBILITY: Internships are open to undergraduate and of course credit, not the Southern Foodways Alliance or the graduate students interested in the field of oral history. University of Mississippi. IN-HOUSE INTERNSHIPS: Previous documentary expe- Deadlines: February 1 (postmark) for Summer (starting June rience is a plus but not required. For those interested in pro- 15) ducing multimedia projects, some experience with related Notification: By March 15 software and equipment is required. Stipend: Up to $500 per week (on-site only). The stipend is GUIDED INTERNSHIPS: Previous documentary ex- intended to cover travel while in Oxford, housing, and experience and/or experience in multi-media production is penses (we have a source for economical housing). Half of the required. stipend will be granted upon receipt of award; the other half will be granted upon completion of project. HOW TO APPLY Equipment: A personal laptop is required. The SFA has an Please send a letter of inquiry indicating previous experience, oral history kit (digital recorder, external mike, headphones, areas of interest (fieldwork or media production), and a proj- and digital camera), which will be made available for the in- ect description (for the Guided Internship only) to: tern’s use. Depending upon schedule, access to the University’s Amy Evans Streeter Center for Media Production [http://mpdl.outreach.olemiss. SFA Oral Historian edu/] may be available for multimedia projects. Office space Southern Foodways Alliance may also be made available. P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677 GUIDED INTERNSHIP (662) 915-5993 A Guided Internship at the SFA offers the opportunity to pur- Email: [email protected] sue either an oral history or multimedia project based in any Selected candidates will be invited to submit formal applica- location within the South. Applicants should survey the SFA’s tions prior to the application deadline, if applicable. existing catalogue of oral histories to determine what sorts of

REPORT FROM BLACKBERRY FARM A New Fellow, a Very Successful Fundraiser

We’re just home from Blackberry Farm, His grandfather, Julian “Pappy” Van the grand culinary destination on the Winkle Sr., began his career in the late cusp of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1800s as a salesman for W. L. Weller & in Tennessee, site of the annual Taste Sons. In 1908 he and another Weller of the South fundraiser for the SFA, salesman bought the firm. In 1910 they as well as the annual gathering of acquired Stitzel Distillery of Louisville, the Fellowship of Southern Farmers, Kentucky. The Stitzel-Weller opened on Artisans, and Chefs. Kentucky Derby Day in 1935 and went This year was our most success- on to define its own style of bourbon, a ful fundraiser. With Sam Beall of wheated whiskey that proved peerless. Blackberry Farm and Mike “Rathead” At the time of his death in 1965, Pappy Riley of the SFA at the helm, we more Van Winkle, age 89, was the oldest ac- than doubled our highest take from pre- tive distiller in the nation. vious years. Old Rip Van Winkle Company is now We also welcomed a new Fellow to owned and operated by Pappy’s grand- the august Fellowship of Southern son, Julian Van Winkle III, our newest Farmers, Artisans, and Chefs. The Fellow. Over the course of a long career, Fellowship—an independent body of Julian Van Winkle III has redefined the region’s most accomplished food premium bourbon. Some of his innova- and drink professionals—fosters cama- tions are measurable. For example, he raderie and mentorship, honoring the Julian Van Winkle III (left) with his son, introduced hyper-aged bourbon to the bounty of the South and the hands that Preston Van Winkle marketplace by way of 20- and 23-year- grow, nurture, and interpret its harvest. old exemplars of whiskey. But his most Time spent at Blackberry Farm provides important work has been less about the a forum during which the Fellows break This year, the Fellows welcomed a spirits and more about the spiritual. bread and share knowledge while rein- new member of their self-elected cad- Julian Van Winkle III has taught us to forcing the sustaining bridge between re, Julian Van Winkle III, the pioneer- respect bourbon again. He’s the South’s field and table. ing Kentucky distiller and marketer. grand ambassador of brown liquor.

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2009 Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Geno Lee and Bill Monroe, the fabled father of Flame Award: Geno Lee bluegrass. By the ’90s, the food that Gene “Geno” Lee, proprietor of the supported so many musicians in and Big Apple Inn, in Jackson, Mississippi, around the mountain South had begun is a fourth generation Farish Street res- to lure our honoree from her critic’s taurateur, famous for pig ear sandwiches perch to the kitchen, and in 1991 she and smoked sausage sandwiches. published Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, His great-grandfather, Juan Mora, and Honest Fried Chicken, a classic fu- founded the spot in 1939, and his fam- sion of the food and music cultures of ily has long fueled the blues scene on that region. Farish Street. (His father and bluesman A second book, on food-centered Sonny Boy Williamson were fishing holiday celebrations in the South, buddies.) came out in 1995, and then our honor- For 2009, the SFA focused on the in- ee turned—far in advance of the wave terdependency of food and music. The now sweeping the nation—to chronicle story of the Big Apple Inn showcases the return of small-plot farming, com- that relationship. munity-supported agriculture, heirloom In tribute to Geno Lee and his fam- seeds, fresh local produce, and the pres- ily, the SFA, in concert with the Fertel ervation of culinary traditions in her Foundation, commissioned a film, native Appalachia. She was the single Smokes and Ears, by Joe York. You may most persistent one among us to advo- watch it online at www.southernfood- bird from the greasy wings, brawny cate an SFA showcase of outstanding ways.org. Click on the documentary drumsticks, and buxom pulley bones be- food writing, and is thus the true moth- tag. ing peddled from Baghdad to Beijing by er of our Cornbread Nation series. a long retinue of Colonel Sanders wan- 2009 Craig Claiborne Lifetime nabees. Let it be said for the record that Please join me in celebrating the Achievement Award: Ronni Lundy our honoree this evening is nobody’s life work of the twelfth SFA Lifetime Since its founding in 1999, the SFA wannabee; she is her own person, her Achievement Award winner and the has recognized a dozen of its leading own model of pride, confidence, deter- first recipient of the Craig Claiborne lights with an award for their body of mination, and consummate skill. Lifetime Achievement Award of the work. These are individuals who per- As a music critic for the Louisville Southern Foodways Alliance—the di- sonify the high standards of culinary ex- Courier-Journal in the 1970s and ’80s, vine and audacious Ms. Ronni Lundy. pertise and cultural integrity to which she earned the respect of a generation John Egerton we all aspire. of performers, including John Hartford, This year, for the first time, the formal Emmylou Harris, Sam Bush, the Judds, award bears the name of the late Craig Claiborne, who rose from Sunflower, Mississippi, to become the first male editor of the New York Times food pages, a Calendar of 2010 Events post he occupied with distinction from February 18: The Great Migration and Southern Foodways, Museum of the City 1957 to 1986. of New York, featuring Jessica Harris and Ted Lee As a small-town Southern cook and writer/editor who never was outclassed April 25: Potlikker Film Festival, Nashville, Tennessee by the competition, Craig Claiborne is a perfect role model for this year’s honor- June 12–13: Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, New York City ee. She hails from Corbin, Kentucky, a mountain town where Harland Sanders June 25–27: Field Trip, Buford Highway International Corridor, Atlanta developed his recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken, destined to anchor a world- August 20–21: Potlikker Film Festival, Chattanooga, Tennessee (tentative) wide fast food empire. It may be no coincidence that our September 28: Viking Range Lecture, University of Mississippi (tentative) honoree used the words “Honest Fried Chicken” in the title of her first book, October 21–24: 13th Southern Foodways Symposium, Oxford, Mississippi to distinguish her exquisitely encrusted

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Faulkner’s Mississippi: Land into Civil Rights in the Delta Legend Journalist Curtis Wilkie in conversa- Transforms the fiction of William tion with Patti Carr Black, Emmett Faulkner’s mythical Jefferson and Till’s cousin Wheeler Parker, Sumner Yoknapatawpha into the reality of residents Frank Mitchener and Betty Oxford and Lafayette County, and Bill Pearson, Henry Outlaw of the Mississippi, with quotations from Delta Center for Culture and Learning Faulkner’s writings correlated with at Delta State University, and former appropriate scenes. The first motion Mississippi governor William F. Winter. pictures inside Faulkner’s home are ht Courtesy Photo March 29, 2006. presented along with rare still photo- Color, 60 minutes. graphs of the writer. Narrated by DVD1148 ...... $20.00 Joseph Cotton. Script by Evans

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“AreYou Walkin’ with Me?” Sister Thea Bowman, William Faulkner, and African American Culture William Faulkner Stamp Ceremony Overview of A 22-cent Literary Arts programs Sister Commemorative stamp honoring Thea presented William Faulkner was issued by the at the annual United States Postal Service during a Faulkner ceremony at the University of Conference Mississippi on August 3, 1987. The from 1980 DVD of this program includes remarks through 1989. by author Eudora Welty, Faulkner’s Produced by daughter, Jill Faulkner Summers, and Lisa N. others. Howorth, Color, 34 minutes. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, 1990. DVD1231 ...... $25.00 Color, 30 minutes. Friends ...... $22.50 DVD 1016 ...... $25.00 Friends ...... $22.50

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