I In March of 2011, the last living descendant of William Faulkner, a niece named Dean Faulkner Wells, held a book signing for her Faulkner-inspired memoir Every Day By the Sun. The signing was held in the same theatre in Oxford, Mississippi where the town first...
Laurence Roth | Apr 18, 2016
In 1962, during the peak of the civil-rights movement, former U.S Air Force serviceman James H. Meredith was accepted into the University of Mississippi, only to be declined when the university learned of his African-American roots. The issue found itself inside of...
Laurence Roth | Feb 24, 2016
When Square Books began, it was a small store, which stocked mainly literature on Mississippi and the South. Richard Howorth and his wife Lisa struggled against the odds to open the bookstore at the very beginning. The Mississippi Creative Economy noted, “This...
Laurence Roth | Feb 24, 2016