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January 2025

Book Club: I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY by Beth Kander
Our February 2025 Bottom Reader Book Club Selection
Mississippi Native: Terrence Zebedee Johnson
"Mississippi has shaped my passion for storytelling. My granddaddy’s words, 'take what you got, make what you want out of it,' come to mind."
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Chronicles from Parchman: Glimmers of Hope
"'It' makes you look deeper within yourself, and even though you don’t know how to fight, you still fight with the little you do know and have until you…
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Mississippi Native: Johnny Wray
"Whether it’s walking the pastures and woods of our farm, taking a drive down the Natchez Trace, or visiting my maternal kinfolks in rural Choctaw…
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Max Hipp Writes Stories in the Morning and Songs at Night
A replay of our book club discussion of WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU OPENS YOUR HEART with author Max Hipp
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Mississippi Native: Cameron T. Mayers
"Living here has taught me that even though we may face obstacles, there’s always room for growth, change, and progress..."
Ghost Town
Poems by Jianqing Zheng and photos by Eudora Welty
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Curtis Wilkie Never Lost His Accent
My full "Rooted Questionnaire" interview with the award-winning journalist and Mississippi native Curtis Wilkie
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Mississippi Native: Curtis Wilkie
"[Willie Morris] would write me letters and say, 'It's time for you to come home, boy.' I eventually did."
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Stained Glass
On a tour of Mississippi's State Capitol, writer and ecologist Christopher Norment considers "the complicated nexus between...what we choose to…
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