All Hallow’s Eve, 30" x 24" (1994), oil on canvas by Lincoln Perry The Twenty-Fifth Oxford Conference for the Book The University of Mississippi • Oxford, Mississippi March 21–23, 2018 TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2018 THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 5:00 p.m. Pre-conference Warm-Up Thursday’s sessions take place at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics on the University campus and at Southside Michael Farris Smith reads from The Fighter Gallery, 150 Courthouse Square. Thacker Mountain Radio will be held Off Square Books on the Oxford Square at Lyric Theater on the Oxford Square. A book signing for Thursday’s authors will be held at Square Books immediately following Thacker WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2018 Mountain Radio. Wednesday’s luncheon program takes place at the J. D. Williams Library 9:30 a.m. Writing on the Southern Latino Experience on the University campus; two program sessions on Wednesday after- Simone Delerme, Leon Fink, Daniel Connolly, and noon take place at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Angela Stuesse Politics, located on the University campus, and the final reading for the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics day takes place at Off Square Books on the Oxford Square. The au- thors’ party is at the Barksdale-Isom House, 1003 Jefferson Ave. 11:00 a.m. Southern Bohemianism: The Countercultural South 11:00 a.m. Welcome Lunch at Archives and Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman, Special Collections Zandria Robinson, Hosted by the Friends of the Library Scott Barretta, Chris Offutt, and Jaime Cantrell Archives and Special Collections Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics J. D. Williams Library Lunch on Your Own 11:30 a.m. The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South 12:00 p.m. “Could Publishing Be in My Future?” Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley Wiegand Publishing as a Career Archives and Special Collections A campus visit by University Press of Mississippi J. D. Williams Library Barnard Observatory Conference, Room 108 1:30 p.m. Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering 1:15 p.m. The Tennessee Fight for Women’s Suffrage Conservationist Elaine Weiss, in conversation with Jessica Wilkerson Cathy Shropshire portrays Fannye Cook in a one- Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics woman show based on Dorothy Shawhan’s Fannye Cook: 2:30 p.m. A Summons to Oxford Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist, with comments Ann Beattie on Peter Taylor: The Complete Stories by editors Libby Hartfield and Marion Barnwell Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics 4:30 p.m. Poetry and Prose on the Square 3:00 p.m. Writing US Political History Beth Ann Fennelly, Marcus Wicker, Jenny Browne, and Curtis Wilkie, Tom Oliphant, Ellen Meacham, Jennifer Tseng John A. Farrell Southside Gallery on the Oxford Square Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics 150 Courthouse Square 5:00 p.m. Reading and Conversation 6:00 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio Jonathan Miles, in conversation with Jim Dees Guest author Martin Amis Off Square Books on the Oxford Square Guest musicians Larkin Poe 6:30 p.m. Book Conference Authors Party and Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Co-hosted by the Friends of the Library Lyric Theater on the Oxford Square Barksdale-Isom House 1006 Van Buren Ave. 1003 Jefferson Ave. (Advance Ticket Required) FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2018 Friday’s sessions take place at the Lafayette County Courthouse on the Special Events Oxford Square, at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library, and Register for events online at at Off Square Books on the Oxford Square. www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com/attend. 10:30 a.m. Radical Foodways John T. Edge and Jonathan Kauffman Welcome Lunch Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square Wednesday, March 21, at 11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Poetry Talk and Lunch Hosted by the Friends of the Library, Jenny Browne, speaker/poet this lunch in the J.D. Williams Library’s Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library Archives and Special Collections is a 401 Bramlett Blvd. wonderful kick-off event. Sponsored by the Lafayette County and Oxford Free, but registration is appreciated Public Library (Advance Registration Appreciated) Book Conference Authors Party 1:15 p.m. Reading and Conversation Wednesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. Martin Amis Co-hosted by the Friends of the Library and held at the Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square historic Barksdale-Isom House (1003 Jefferson Ave.), this 2:30 p.m. Affrilachian Poets and Their Legacy much-loved opening reception is a lively fundraiser with Julian Randall, Frank X Walker, Kelly Norman Ellis, wonderful food, drinks, and conversation between fellow and Ricardo Nazario y Colon conference attendees and guest writers. Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square Reservations required. Tickets $50. Purchase tickets through the 3:45 p.m. Reading and Conversation conference website. A limited number of tickets will be available at Ann Beattie, in conversation with Jane Hill the door. Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square “Could Publishing Be in My Future?” Publishing as 5:00 p.m. Twenty-Five and Counting a Career Closing Reception and Book Signing Thursday, March 22, at 12:00 p.m. Off Square Books on the Oxford Square A campus visit by University Press of Mississippi for students and scholars interested in university presses, scholarly publishing, and internships and opportunities available at UPM. The Children’s Book Festival Barnard Observatory Conference Room Free, no advance registration necessary The 2018 Children’s Book Festival, held in conjunction with the Oxford Thacker Mountain Radio Conference for the Book, will be held Thursday, March 22, at 6:00 p.m. at the Ford Center for Performing Arts Thacker Mountain Radio will host on Thursday, March 22, with more a special OCB show at the Lyric than 1,200 first graders and fifth grad- Theater on the Oxford Square (1006 ers from the schools of Lafayette County Van Buren Avenue). and Oxford in attendance. Author Matt de la Peña will present Free, no advance registration necessary his book Last Stop on Poetry Talk and Lunch Market Street at 9:00 a.m. for the first graders and A Nation’s Hope: The Story Friday, March 23, at 12:00 p.m. of Boxing Legend Joe Louis at 10:30 a.m. Hosted by the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library for the fifth graders. (401 Barmlett Blvd.), this lunch includes a talk on craft by The Lafayette County poet Jenny Browne. Literacy Council Free, advance registration appreciated sponsors the first- grade program and the Junior Auxiliary of Oxford sponsors the fifth-grade pro- gram. All 1,200 children will receive their own copy of the books. The Participants AMY HARROUN Martin Amis is the author of fourteen Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social novels, including London Fields and The Life, and coauthor, with Sara Green, Zone of Interest, the memoir Experience, of Seriously Funny: Disability and the two collections of stories, and six previous Paradoxical Power of Humor. His most nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn. recent book is The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk, coedited with Lindsey A. Freeman. Jenny Browne is the current poet Marion Barnwell is professor emerita laureate of Texas and author of three of English at Delta State University. collections of poems, At Once, The She is an editor, with Libby Hartfield, Second Reason, and Dear Stranger, and of Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering two chapbooks, Welcome to Freetown and Conservationist, written by Dorothy Texas, Being. A former James Michener Shawn. Fellow at the University of Texas, she worked for many years as a poet-in-the- J AMES schools through the Texas Commission Scott Barretta is an instructor of on the Arts and is currently a professor of English at Trinity P sociology at the University of Mississippi atterson University where she teaches courses in creative writing, women and a writer-researcher for the Mississippi and gender studies, and environmental literature. Her poems Blues Trail. He is the editor of Conscience and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Garden and Gun, Oxford “Izzy” Young, a contributor to The American, the New York Times, and Tin House. She lives in Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, downtown San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, photographer from Poe to Punk, and former editor of the Scott Martin, and their daughters, Lyda and Harriet. magazines Living Blues and Jefferson. Jaime Cantrell serves as the LGBT Program Coordinator at the Center for Ann Beattie has been included in four Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement O. Henry Award Collections, in John and is a faculty affiliate at the Sarah Updike’s The Best American Short Stories Isom Center for Women and Gender of the Century, and in Jennifer Egan’s Studies. She is the coeditor, with Amy The Best American Short Stories 2014. Stone, of Out of the Closet, into the In 2000 she received the PEN/Malamud Archive: Researching Sexual Histories, Award for achievement in the short story. a Lambda Literary Award finalist for strada E In 2005 she received the Rea Award for LGBT Anthology. Cantrell has published the Short Story. She was the Edgar Allan essays and reviews in the Journal of Lesbian Studies, the Journal of IGRID S Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Homosexuality, Study the South, and Feminist Formations. She is Writing at the University of Virginia and is a member of the presently at work on a book project titled “Southern Sapphisms: American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Sexuality and Sociality in Literary Productions, 1969–1997.” Academy of Arts and Sciences.