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The Book Conference Authors’ Party, co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library, will be held at the historic Memory House on the University of Mississippi campus again this year. This much-loved opening dinner includes wonderful food, drinks, and conversation with fellow conference-goers and conference authors. Tickets are on sale now for $50 per person. Click … Continued

Those who are arriving in Oxford on Tuesday, March 31, for the Oxford Conference for the Book: the University of Mississippi Museum is hosting an opening reception that evening for Brian Dettmer’s upcoming exhibition Hardcovers and Paperbacks, a collection of works that both memorializes the written word and reincarnates it. With great reverence, Dettmer has … Continued

On Saturday, March 15, 1998, during the Fifth Oxford Conference for the Book, Elizabeth Spencer returned to the University of Mississippi, where in 1948 she was Instructor of English. She read “Field of Battle” from her new memoir, Landscapes of the Heart. Spencer recently passed away on December 23, 2019.

Edmund White, a 2019 Oxford Conference for the Book participant, won the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters award this November. Here’s his acceptance speech, itself an example of both his wit and his wisdom.

On December 3, Square Books will host a celebration for the publication of “Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown,” to whom the Fourteenth Oxford Conference for the Book was dedicated. Jonathan Miles, a 2018 OCB participant, wrote the foreword. So many OCB connections!