AFS is great because I get to talk to some of the coolest people ever & I get to use Bluesky temporarily

Come see me in the ballroom to add to your #tbr pile @upmississippi.bsky.social

THIS. IS. IT.

My last one as CLA President — so Let’s Go!!

You don’t want to miss “SOUL FOOD, SOUL WORK, SOUL LEGACIES: FOOD, FAMILY, AND FAITH AS FOUNDATION,” Kiese Laymon, or Jackson State University — April 8-11, 2026.

See you in the ‘Sip!

#CLA26Jackson #CLA26 #CLAscholars

🪄 POTTER STINKS: GENDER AND SPECIES IN J. K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER SERIES by Keridiana Chez, acquired by the brilliant @htaehyram.bsky.social for @upmississippi.bsky.social, excerpted in Lit Hub today ✨💚

Djeha, the North African Trickster Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster ...

"This book is a collision of wit and wisdom. Djeha may be a trickster, but through his antics, we learn much about the complexity and richness of the human experience." Thed Bostic #ReadUP

www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Djeh...

centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...

feels like the only way to preserve sanity now!!!

New 2025 plan: I'm going to stop paying attention to the news and watch old movies and read books and travel to a few places and publish a bunch of books and make some cocktails in between and when it's over, you all can update me on what I missed.

Soothing myself by digging through DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS. So many little gems in this book.

We’re so excited to be at #MLA2025! Be sure to use code MLA2025 at checkout on our website to receive a 30% discount on any of our Literature and related titles. www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...

All set up and ready to rep @upmississippi.bsky.social tomorrow at #MLA25

I will be at #MLA25 in NOLA, so come swing by the @upmississippi.bsky.social booth 115B in the exhibit hall this Friday and Saturday for $10 books, some fun freebies, and scintillating publishing chats!📚✨

Came back to the office to a notification that copies 📚 of Carrie Helms Tippen's UNPALATABLE 👅 STORIES OF PAIN 😖 AND PLEASURE ☺️ IN SOUTHERN COOKBOOKS have hit the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse 🚚📦

So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉

Starting the new year off with a literal bang

Life lessons, from Orwell to Didion A series of books that teaches us not only how to write but also how to live and how to think properly about life.

Loved seeing this piece in @thespectator1828.bsky.social from Robin Ashenden! If you have a writer you'd love to see added to @upmississippi.bsky.social's Literary Conversations series, DM me--I would be so happy to receive your proposal!

www.spectator.co.uk/article/life...

Need a thought-provoking listen for the new year? PROVERB MASTERS: SHAPING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Raymond Summerville is an examination of the lasting impact of proverbial language on the long civil rights movement: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

Gisele Pelicot is an incredible woman and a hero for her nerve in bringing all those rapists to justice and for knowing the shame does not lie worth her — bravely declining anonymity was incredible.

Listen to a balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America in the audiobook for GUNLORE: FIREARMS, FOLKWAYS, AND COMMUNITIES, edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason! #ReadUP #Audiobooks tinyurl.com/yejjbwm8

Riding Shotgun into the Heart of Mississippi Jessica B. Harris on her journeys through the Magnolia State

A great piece from Jessica B. Harris in 2021 about her trips to Mississippi. I deeply admire her and her work.

gardenandgun.com/articles/rid...

We are deeply saddened to hear the news of Nikki Giovanni's passing. Giovanni was an activist, educator, and one of the most well-known American poets.

“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”
–Nikki Giovanni

Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now

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How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping For two weeks in July 1944, Sylvia Plath attended Camp Helen Storrow at Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts, averaging a letter a day to her mother, reporting on her swimming and hiking and her enjoyment …

Read an exclusive excerpt from THE MAKING OF SYLVIA PLATH on Lithub!
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I am spending all of my paycheck on d&d materials help pls

An American girl doll (Molly) sitting very close to a negroni. A pink bubble with white text above her head says “final day for half-off preorders”

it's like happy hour, but for our book. TODAY is the last day of the @upressmississippi holiday sale--snag yourself a preorder for $12.50 (!!!), and DM me details to get your free sticker pack. 📖

www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-A...

shabbat shalom I’m going to sleep for a dozen hours!

the other site has officially been dubbed the Bad Place, so I guess it’s time to try out the Good Place