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The “National Book Foundation Presents: Memorializing Memory”  OCB session is set for 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 3 in the Baxter Room of the J. D. Williams Library. It features National Book Award-honored authors Hanif Abdurraqib, the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant whose latest book There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random … Continued

Poetry and music are weaved together for “After Songs: An Evening of Poetry and Music” at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3rd in Nutt Auditorium. University of Mississippi music department faculty Michael Rowlett (clarinet) collaborates with Adrienne Park (piano) and Philip Snyder (flute) to perform Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Langston,” based on poems by Langston Hughes. Rowlett … Continued

Three writers whose work reflect the spirit of the late Willie Morris are being honored as winners of this year’s Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, housed at the University of Mississippi. “The Willie Morris Awards are an increasingly revered part of the Southern literary landscape,” said David Crews, an Oxford author and nonfiction judge … Continued

Encouraging children to read is important for all aspects of their lives. The Children’s Book Festival, part of the Oxford Conference for the Book, gives area children a book of their own and the opportunity to meet the author with their classmate on Friday, March 21 at the Ford Center. This year, the first-grade author … Continued

Fans of suspense writing will thrill at the “The Suspense of Writing” session set for 2:30 p.m. April 3 featuring Lilliam Rivera, author of Tiny Threads (Penguin Random House, 2024), Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead (Simon and Schuster, 2024), and Zach Williams, author of Beautiful Days (Doubleday, 2024), in conversation with Melissa Ginsburg, … Continued