AltWeeklies Wire
Politics in the Light of Daynew
Using personal records, correspondence, meeting minutes and other long-forgotten documentation, Crespino chronicles how white reaction to the civil rights movement in Mississippi contributed to the rise and formation of Republican Party as we know it.
Jackson Free Press |
Jere Nash |
05-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
Child Soldiernew
If you were put off by the Caucasian self-obsession of Blood Diamond, A Long Way Gone serves as a refreshing correction.
Jackson Free Press |
John Dicker |
03-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
I Do Not Belong Herenew
Growing up gay in Mississippi.
Jackson Free Press |
Matt Saldana |
03-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kevin Sessums, Mississippi Sissy
Macaroni and Pearlsnew
This is a compilation of Fennelly's real-life letters to Kathleen, former student, friend and young mother to be.
Jackson Free Press |
Margaret Cahoon |
05-13-2006 |
Fiction
Psychedelic Sunspotsnew
This is a tale of star-crossed lovers in 1950s Mississippi, when a white sheriff falls in love with a mixed-race woman.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
04-20-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Carolyn Haines, Penumbra
John Dicker: Taking On The Other Uncle Samnew
John Dicker takes on the Waltons, Target and the poor healthcare practices of Wal-Mart in this interview with the Jackson Free Press.
Jackson Free Press |
Casey Parks and Todd Stauffer |
11-10-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Deep Waters of Weltynew
Susan Marrs takes readers through the years of life of this icon of Mississippi literature in which she lived and read and wrote and revised herself into a full-fledged writer.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
07-28-2005 |
Nonfiction
Good Old Boy Mentalitynew
In Junior Ray, Mississippi-born Memphis English professor John Pritchard has brought to life one of the most tangible, offensive, realistic and rascally characters to ever step out of a 1950s Delta patrol car.
Jackson Free Press |
JC Patterson |
06-03-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: John Pritchard, Junior Ray
Dead Drunk and Crazynew
James Crumley’s novels are brutal, ironic, psychotic and sly. The men are scheming, hard-bitten and as tough as a rattlesnake convention. The women are even worse.
Jackson Free Press |
JC Patterson |
06-03-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: James Crumley, The Right Madness
A Hip Mama's Talesnew
The lessons in Bee Lavender’s autobiography are not about making dead animals look life-like but about getting through this life.
Jackson Free Press |
Skyla Dawn Luckey |
05-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
Statistics Are at the Heart of Baseballnew
Lovers of baseball dwell on statistics the way teen-aged girls dissect each and every nuance in a glance from that cute boy across the cafeteria.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
05-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
See Jane Dienew
Jane: A Murder is not just any murder story. Maggie Nelson’s novel is powerful and heart wrenching
Jackson Free Press |
Skyla Dawn Luckey |
05-12-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Jane: A Murder, Maggie Nelson
Poor Little Rich Girlnew
Lauren Sanders’ With or Without You takes the reader into the mind of a strange young rich girl. Lillian is looking for a friend, for love. In the end, she turns into a little dyke murderer.
Jackson Free Press |
Skyla Dawn Luckey |
05-12-2005 |
Fiction
To Hell and Backnew
Two rainy seasons spent killing in Vietnam haunt Claude Anshin Thomas. When it rains, he thinks of mud, napalm, people screaming and dying. In his book, he describes how he grappled with violence and then found solace.
Jackson Free Press |
Shay O'Neil |
02-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
Anniston Burningnew
Author Phil Noble describes how the work of the Bi-Racial Human Relations Council enabled citizens of Anniston, Ala., to endure and to overcome, for the most part, the violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement in the South.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
02-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
