Authors from Mississippi and beyond will be featured at the 5th annual book fair
Staff Picks 2019
‘Bluff City’ both an ode to and an inquiry of civil-rights photographer Ernest Withers
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Biography is equally a history of 20th Century Memphis, focusing on the civil rights movement and its clash with the FBI
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‘Well-Read Black Girl’ centers African American women writers
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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
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor credits her journey to a love for books
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In her book “Turning Pages,” Sonia Sotomayor speaks directly to young readers. She’ll also speak at this year’s Mississippi Book Festival