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Staff Picks 2019

Mississippi Today presents our staff’s picks of authors and works featured at the 2019 Mississippi Book Festival.

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Our Staff Picks: Book Festival 2019

By R.L. Nave | August 13, 2019

Authors from Mississippi and beyond will be featured at the 5th annual book fair

'Southern Discomfort' brings uncomfortable moments to readers

'Furious Hours': The story of Harper Lee's quest to write a true-crime novel of her own

'We Cast A Shadow' a satirical story of a father's fear for his son growing up black in America

Noah Saterstrom celebrates Mississippi Storytellers with narrative portraits

Staff Picks 2019

‘Bluff City’ both an ode to and an inquiry of civil-rights photographer Ernest Withers

By Alex Rozier | August 15, 2019

Biography is equally a history of 20th Century Memphis, focusing on the civil rights movement and its clash with the FBI

Staff Picks 2019

‘Well-Read Black Girl’ centers African American women writers

By Aallyah Wright | August 13, 2019

Author Glory Edim made a T-shirt that birthed a nationwide bookclub, a literary festival in Brooklyn and a sisterhood among women of color across the world

Staff Picks 2019

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor credits her journey to a love for books

By Erica Hensley | August 13, 2019

In her book “Turning Pages,” Sonia Sotomayor speaks directly to young readers. She’ll also speak at this year’s Mississippi Book Festival

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