🍰 Happy Birthday to director Sofia Coppola! 🍰Celebrate with us by heading over to upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sofia-… to read more about the Academy Award winner best known for movies like PRISCILLA, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, and MARIE ANTOINETTE.

Author Matthew Pettway doing the coolest things around the world! 🌎

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NewRelease: BLACK FIRE—THIS TIME, VOLUME 1, edited by Kim McMillon with associate editor Kofi Antwi, is an anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement and includes a foreword by Ishmael Reed and introduction by Margo Natalie.

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My book on Moebius is available for preorders on the University Press of Mississippi (@upmississippi ) website. It looks good, it's cheap and it's available in January!

Thanks to ProfessorLatinx for inviting me to contribute to the Biographic collection!
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'Am I better than everyone?” *tucks hair behind ear*
#MemeMonday

David Fantle is the #author of
'C'Mon, Get Happy: the Making of Summer Stock' #filmhistory
'Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends' #celebrityinterviews
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#amreading David Fantle #Hollywood
#goodreads #iartg #ian1

NewRelease: FROM THE PROJECTS TO THE PRESIDENCIES: MY JOURNEY TO HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP by James E. Lyons Sr. is the compelling story of a self-made, driven, and industrious higher education professional.

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#ReadUP

A Place to Live in Peace upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Plac… via Univ Press of MS

On Wed 5/15 at 7pm Kimberly Wedeven Segall will join us at our Ravenna location to discuss her new book SUPERHEROES IN THE STREETS
Univ Press of MS
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If mothers in #movies - especially in #HorrorMovies - are characters that fascinate you, then check out The Sinful Maternal: Motherhood in Possession Films. #SelfPromoSunday #HappyMothersDay2024 #horror #horror fam #HorrorFamily #HorrorCommunity

Happy Mother's Day from all of us at the University Press of Mississippi. 💐
We celebrate this special day by cherishing memories and precious time spent with our mothers. ❤️

Tag a mom below and share your favorite moment with her in the comments below. 💕✨ #MothersDay2024

NewRelease: GREATER ATLANTA: BLACK SATIRE AFTER OBAMA, edited by Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue, is an engaging study of contemporary Black satire through the lens of a critically acclaimed television series. #ReadUP ​upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Greate…

If you liked last year's article from Literary Hub by Warren Zanes (shorturl.at/yCDMP) then you'll love Univ Press of MS's forthcoming book FLANNERY AT THE GRAMMYS by Irwin H. Streight, available for preorder now and out in July 2024🦚 #ReadUP upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Flanne…

October page proofs are starting to roll in, so here’s a Friday afternoon thread of some forthcoming Univ Press of MS books, all available for pre-order! 📚🧵

🌸 Celebrate the incredible moms in your life this Mother's Day with our handpicked selection! 🌺 Make Mother's Day a memorable one for the woman you love!

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So excited to have the backing of the NOUS Foundation for New Orleans Baby Dolls recapturing Louisiana Creole. Harvard Radcliffe Institute LSU Press Univ Press of MS onebookonenolaofficial

IN FAULKNER'S SHADOW: A MEMOIR by Lawrence Wells is an amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown. Also pre-order Wells's forthcoming memoir, GHOSTWRITER!

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#ReadUP #MemoirMay #ThrowbookThursday

Listen now to THE PREVENTORIUM by Susan Annah Currie. In this intimate memoir, Currie details her fifteen-month stay at the Mississippi Preventorium from 1959–1960. Listen at Libro.fm, Audible, or wherever you listen!

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#ReadUP #Audiobooks

I have been invited to lecture on the origins of #Black #Cuban #literature at the Academy of the #Kingdom of #Morocco , in May 15-16 in #Rabat . Univ Press of MS & Eurospan offer a 25% discount on #Cuban LiteratureInTheAgeOfBlackInsurrection throughout #Africa for a limited time.

🏆🔥We're thrilled to announce that VIBE: THE SOUND AND FEELING OF BLACK LIFE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, has been named a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award! 🔥🏆
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Get your hands on the book here: upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/Vibe