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Mississippi Expat: Alva Leigh
"When you are thousands of miles from home and you try to explain a debutante ball or a Southern Baptist altar call to a foreigner, you are as shocked…
Oct 22
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Mississippi Sideboard #14: The Grounds and the Fury
The fluffiest angel food cake and the pettiest small town gossip. Jesse Yancy breaks down the culinary drama of dinners on the grounds.
Oct 20
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Mississippi Native: Erin Austen Abbott
"I even moved to Los Angeles for about a year and a half after buying my house in Water Valley to be sure small town living was for me. I loved living…
Oct 15
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Book Club: BODOCK with Robert Busby
Get ready for our next author talk on October 21 with Mississippi author Robert Busby
Oct 13
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CHUCK: Part V: Hope and Humor with Five Days Left
"It’s a trying situation, even for people you don’t get along with. Because they’re in line, too. If the state could line us all up and get us back to…
Oct 10
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CHUCK: Part IV, Pro Se Filing: Can You Hear Me Now?
"I begged my lawyer at the time to follow up on some of the facts of my case. He wouldn’t do it. He refused to do it. I begged him and others in his…
Oct 9
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CHUCK: Part III, What Crime Scene?
"If the prosecutors and investigators are fabricating evidence and putting it together to suit their story..how can you tell who is guilty and who is…
Oct 8
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CHUCK: Part II, Belly of the Whale
"This is my whale’s belly. I didn’t do what God wanted me to do, so he put me in the belly of the whale. Now I do my best to be that witness for him."
Oct 7
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CHUCK: Part I, Working for a Living
"God's work tells us that if you’re a ditch digger, be the best ditch digger you can be; if you’re a doctor, be the best doctor you can be. I’m a…
Oct 6
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Mississippi Native: Bettye J. Gardner
"There is a sense that the South, and especially Mississippi, is a kind of monolith, but that’s not the case. And that was not my experience."
Oct 1
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September 2025
Chronicles from Parchman #15: Moving Day
Over his thirty-plus years on death row, writer L. Patri has perfected a cleaning ritual that he implements each time he has to move cells. It's simple…
Sep 26
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Mississippi Transplant: Noreen Ocampo
"By living here and by writing these poems, I’ve finally come to love the South. To realize that I love the South. And I hope that this love is…
Sep 24
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