A collection of short stories, all set on the Gulf Coast, by a master of the form

A wide-ranging look at the interplay between one European people and African Americans

A comprehensive analysis of four centuries of protest, pride, and pomp in the beauty contests of the U.S. Virgin Islands

Interviews with the author of My Dog Skip and North Toward Home

A selection of the most significant, informative, and interesting interviews with one of America’s foremost novelists

The full story of one of country music’s most influential record labels

Interviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies

The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie

A rowdy novel of a Jackson preacher and martial arts devotee who finds himself in the heat of Mississippi’s nadir

Essays examining the fraught negotiations between official agencies and local communities in the aftermath of disasters

Essays probing the creative output and widespread influence of a media titan

A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party

A study of gender in the works of the Nobel Prize author. Thirteen original papers from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held in 1994 at the University of Mississippi

Interviews with the author of The Wapshot Scandel and Bullet Park

Interviews with the author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Later the Same Day, and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Interviews with the author of Omensetter’s Luck and The Tunnel

How a poor boy from Alabama won the Pulitzer Prize and became the toughest reporter in America

Interviews with the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Body and Soul and the director of Force of Evil and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement

Interviews with the Oscar-winning director of Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby

Thirteen original papers from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conferences held in 1992 at the University of Mississippi

The art and career of a western sculptor whose amazing performance with a power saw gives life to astonishing creations

A study in the representative forms of lynching violence and their effects

Interviews with the author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried

A biography of the accomplished actor and staunch pacifist who changed the way America considers grounds for conscientious objection

An iconic masterpiece available again in hardcover

Collected interviews spanning from 1957 to 2009 with the popular bad-boy actor and rebel director of Easy Rider

The history of a brief but powerful coalition of Populists, Republicans, and African Americans

Essays exploring the Nobel Laureate’s literary uses of the worldly material around him

Collected interviews with the renowned American author, music journalist, and cultural critic

A great writer’s first novel of a southern family’s vendetta

A comprehensive resource on a foundational American musical form

The groundbreaking study of “coon songs” and ragtime in black musical comedies, circus sideshows, and tented minstrel shows

A novel of passion denied and a woman’s enduring search for love and truth

How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore

A lushly illustrated celebration of two centuries of creative work from Louisiana

A search for the truth behind a fateful shoot out and decades-old cover up

A study of the relationship between Cajun food and modern Cajun ethnic identity

The untold tale of bit players, doubles, Central Casting, and extras in American film

A study of how jazz greats dazzled and enlivened coal towns during the Great Depression

A restless, young generation collides with a South in transition

The perfect introduction to the many strains of American-made music

A classic and groundbreaking study of subway and hip-hop art

The astonishing, uplifting, and hilarious account of maverick Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice and his family

A first-person account of the turbulent times of the Oxford riot by a solider who guarded James Meredith when he integrated Ole Miss

An illustrated biography of the innovative geniuses who created children’s classics

Collected interviews from 1993 to 2009 with the author of The Missing, The Clearing, Welding with Children, and many other vital works of fiction

An accessible, moving, and inspirational biography of a great American writer

A biography of the great noir actor who perfected the male mask of steely impassivity

The story of a New York record man whose extraordinary career spanned jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, rock, country, ethnic, and pop music