ICYMI!

Catching up on press I missed since the start of the year, and I love this review of LAUREN BACALL: THE QUEEN OF COOL in The Epoch Times! 💗🚬📚

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🚨📖 ✒️ Grad school literary lovers will find the write stuff at our #CyberMonday sale. It’s sure to be memoir-able! All literary titles and memoirs are 50% off today only! buff.ly/bTjYqYU

🎅Yule be sorry to miss out on our #CyberMonday sale—all books 50% off and select merch on sale, today only! 🎉📚👕 buff.ly/8N6qSvw

🎉Exercise your right to read with these deals—all sports and outdoors books 🏈🌳 are 50% off on Cyber Monday and Tuesday! History titles are half off, too—talk about a monumental deal. 📚 buff.ly/bTjYqYU

Whether you’re looking to embrace your inner child or uncover a plot twist, we’ve got something for everyone. 📚 All books are 50% off today and tomorrow only. You’ll want to investigate these deals! #cybermonday buff.ly/bTjYqYU

Exclusive UPM merch is available for a limited time only this Cyber Monday (and Tuesday). buff.ly/8N6qSvw

🚨The #CyberMonday sale should strike a chord with🎶music lovers, and we’ve got some reel good deals for🍿movie buffs and film aficionados—all books 50% off, today and tomorrow only! buff.ly/bTjYqYU

deluding myself on the last day of work before Thanksgiving break

The cover of the book "Beyond Zombie Politics: The Art of George A. Romero's Cinema" showing a photo of the director from the side as he sits behind a camera on a movie set -- which appears to be MONKEY SHINES based on the capuchin monkey sitting on his shoulder.

There's more to George A. Romero than Dawn, Day & Night. "Beyond Zombie Politics" spans the director's oeuvre and films like SEASON OF THE WITCH + KNIGHTRIDERS. @clairecornillon.bsky.social @davidrochelorelei.bsky.social @upmississippi.bsky.social
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"Well-researched and aptly fills an important gap in Hollywood history by examining the life and legacy of Diana Barrymore"

@home2hollywood.bsky.social reviews Jennifer Ann Redmond's TOO FAST, TOO SHORT: THE LIFE OF DIANA BARRYMORE, available now from @upmississippi.bsky.social. 🎬📚💗

It's the first day of the AFS 2025 conference! To celebrate, we're offering a 30% discount on any of our #Folklore and related titles with code AFS2025 at checkout on our website! #Sale #ReadUP

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Rodeo champ. Oscar winner. Hollywood cowboy. 🏆🐎
TALL IN THE SADDLE tells the true story of Ben Johnson’s unforgettable ride from Oklahoma ranches to the silver screen.

📚 Pre-order now: buff.ly/cSPNu5R
#TALLINTHESADDLE #BenJohnson #UPMississippi #FilmBooks #NowSpinning

Curated by yours truly, every movie on the list is inspired by books in @upmississippi.bsky.social's horror list.
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Pair each film with a spooky smart read. 📚✨

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Happy October! 🎃 All month long, you can pre-order THE BUNDY ARCHIVE: GENEALOGIES OF WHITE MASCULINITY by @bryanjmckinney.bsky.social at 25% off on the @upmississippi.bsky.social website.

Don't miss this scary good deal! 😱📚✨

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🕷️ Horror isn’t just scary—it’s cultural.
Our spooky-season books trace Poe, Romero, slashers & spectral storytelling across traditions.

📖 Discover the scholarship of fear. buff.ly/hK45CrV

#SpookySeason #UPMississippi

Too Fast, Too Short American actress and socialite Diana Barrymore (1921–1960) was a figure often overshadowed by her famous lineage and tragic narrative. In Too Fast, Too Short: The Life of Diana Barrymore, author Jenni...

Order your copy here 📕👇

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Ending the work day with news that copies of TOO FAST, TOO SHORT: THE LIFE OF DIANA BARRYMORE have arrived in the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse!
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So excited for this biography of the complex, talented actress and Hollywood socialite to hit shelves soon. 💗✨

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We are surprised & disappointed to learn of plans to close @bucknellupress.bsky.social in 2026. AUPresses has offered our community’s assistance & insights to the university as planning for the press proceeds. https://bit.ly/41yszu5

Learn more abt the press's work: https://bit.ly/4m1elcH #ReadUP

We look at medical history with Thomas Helling as we discuss his new book _Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South_ @upmississippi.bsky.social Southerners thought of their region as different, which impacted medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/1ozM...

Kiese Laymon’s Written Creations Remain ‘Rooted in Jackson’ Jackson-native writer Kiese Laymon considers his childhood in Jackson and Mississippi’s cultural traditions to be the foundation of his creative works.

“Everything I write is rooted in Jackson,” Kiese Laymon said. “I spent my childhood there and have always loved it. My life here, and in Mississippi as a whole, is what matters the most to me."

Will revised Mississippi textbook ever make it to the classroom? "Mississippi Conflict & Change" is back in print for the first time in four decades.

Will revised Mississippi textbook ever make it to the classroom?

"Mississippi Conflict & Change" is back in print for the first time in four decades.

“Landowning Black farmers had independence—and became leaders of the civil rights movement.”

Author Diane T. Feldman shares more on @MPBOnline’s Mississippi Edition with host Desare Frazier.

🎧 Interview starts at 17:23: buff.ly/pq1pvB6
#BlackHistory #CivilRights #UPMississippi #BookTalk

📽 Steve McQueen Movies, Ranked 📽 In preparation for the September release of STEVE MCQUEEN: INTERVIEWS—the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date—volume editor Geoffrey L...

And check out volume editor Geoffrey Lokke's definitive ranking of McQueen's films here 🍿👇

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Steve McQueen Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen’s discussions with such artists, critics, c...

Get your copy here 📘👇

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And just like that... Copies of STEVE MCQUEEN: INTERVIEWS have arrived in the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse!
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The latest addition to our Conversations with Filmmakers series will be making its way in the world shortly. 📽️✨

🎥 Just reviewed in CINEASTE!
FILM BY DESIGN isn't just about poster nostalgia—it’s a sharp, scholarly look at how movie posters function as paratexts.
Out now from University Press of Mississippi.
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#FilmByDesign #MoviePosters #Cineaste #PosterArt #CinemaStudies

Holmes County’s history shaped the nation.
BORROWED LAND, STOLEN LABOR, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT—land, faith, and the fight for justice.
📚 Available now. buff.ly/ejD7UJS
#HolmesCountyHistory #CivilRightsHistory #UPMississippi

📚 RUSS MEYER: INTERVIEWS is a recommended summer read from @TheFilmStage—alongside books on Gandolfini, ASTEROID CITY & more!

🎬 A wild ride through cult cinema in Meyer’s own words.
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#RussMeyer #FilmBooks #UPMississippi #SummerReading

🎬 Ray Milland Revisited 🎬 Eric Monder, author of DASHING TO THE END: THE RAY MILLAND STORY, the engaging and detailed first biography of the Oscar-winning Welsh actor, recommends his top ten Ray Milland movies.  “Today, Millan...

For even more Ray Milland, check out the author's curated watch list on Letterboxd! 🍿

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