Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2013) These photographs document George Mitchell’s trip to Mississippi, where he searched for then unrecorded blues musicians including R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and Othar Turner. This journey yielded recordings of music now on cherished and touted albums and CDs. From Mitchell’s fieldwork many others discovered the region … Continue reading Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 →

New York, NY: Free Press (2002) Near fine in dust jacket. William Gay firmly established himself as “the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit” (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner’s Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy’s American West, Gay’s … Continue reading I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down →

London: Collins (1980) Near fine in dust jacket. First English Edition. The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels — “Legends Of The Fall,” “Revenge,” and “The Man Who Gave Up His Name” — confirmed Jim Harrison’s reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas explore the theme … Continue reading Legends of the Fall →

New York, NY: Norton (2014) In this brilliant mix of literary satire and crime caper, Frankie Abandonato, a small-time con man on the run, finds refuge by posing as V. S. Mohle—a famously reclusive writer—and teaching in a prestigious writing program somewhere in Texas. Streetwise and semiliterate, Frankie finds that being treated as a genius … Continue reading Famous Writers I Have Known →

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2014) In David L. Jordans earliest memories, he is lying in the fields, the black earth beneath him and the sky and sun above, filtered through the leaves of the cotton plants. The youngest of five children in a family of sharecroppers, he was nursed and grew up in … Continue reading From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate →

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (1988) Near fine in dust jacket. Facing the Music, Larry Brown’s first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories “is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man–with the frequent introduction … Continue reading Facing the Music →

New York, NY: Random House (2009) A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked the United … Continue reading How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror →

New York, NY: Riverhead (2013) Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by “The Wall Street Journal “and “Publishers Weekly “and “USA Today,” NPR, and “People “summer reads pick A lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls’-school rituals, set in the 1930s South It is 1930, the midst of the Great … Continue reading The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls →

Hanover, MD: Wesleyan University Press (1992) For over three decades, James Dickey has been one of the nation’s most important poets and a prominent man of letters. The Eagle’s Mile, his most recent volume, was a triumphant success, a bold and innovative departure from his traditional verse. The New York Times declared, “Dickey continues to … Continue reading Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1945-1992 →

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing (2013) Offering his first book in a decade, Allan Gurganus returns us to Falls, North Carolina, mythic site of his immortal Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. With three linked, darkly funny novellas, Gurganus charts the old habits–adultery, obsession, incest–still at large in his New South, a Winesburg, Ohio with … Continue reading Local Souls →

Freemont, MI: Sumac Press (1969) Very good in decorated wrapper. Paperback issue. Signed by Harrison only. Contains poems by Jim Harrison, Dan Gerber, George Quasha, JD Reed, and Charles Simic.