Eudora Welty’s only book written for children, the charming story of a shoe-store parrot named Arturo and his many feathered friends

How to identify your fascinating find and understand the culture that produced it

A comprehensive guide to creating your own New Orleans garden

An amusing, informative book that tells you all you’ll need to know about an amazing crustacean

A history of the petroleum industry in the Southeastern United States through the end of World War II

In a series of interviews, Eudora Welty discusses her life in Mississippi, her literary career, and her novels and short stories

Papers presented in 1990 at the seventeenth annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi. A volume extolling the Nobel Laureate’s short story masterpieces with homage and critical appreciation

A study of unusual documentary resources that disclose the processes of cultural evolution that transformed the Acadians of early Louisiana into the Cajuns of today

Winner of a Christopher Award in 1984 for “affirming the highest value of the human spirit,” the classic account of a young black athlete who became a metaphor for the complex culture of Mississippi

Essays that offer a pleasurable jaunt through the irrepressibly funny world of a gifted raconteur

An exploration of the British campaign against horror comics between 1949 and 1955 that led to the passage of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1955

Interviews with third-world and Chicano authors speaking about their place in the literary canon

An exploration of the impact of the massive migration of southern blacks to the North

Mississippi artist Walter Anderson’s block print alphabet pictures from Apple to Zebra—suitable for hand coloring

An anthology of reviews, essays, and appreciations that reveal the links uniting the careers of many noted southern women writers

Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town

Collected interviews with the author of The Light in the Piazza, For Lease or Sale, and Fire in the Morning

Drama recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

A sensitive, comprehensive study providing the broadest look at traditional Cajun culture ever assembled

Insights into the aesthetics of one of popular culture’s favorite art forms

A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon’s favorite son and contemporary America’s favorite humorist

Interviews with the famed southern novelist and commentator

A classic book covering almost every aspect of the black folk experience, collecting writings by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, and many others

Talks with the prize-winning author of Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, July’s People, The Pickup, and many other books

These essays seek out the influence of popular culture upon the Nobel Prize author and note forays into the pop culture world.

These ten essays by one of America’s foremost authorities on popular culture survey the influence of the comic strip and, despite the legions of detractors, show it to be an art form that has enriched and reflected most of American culture.

This first full-length scholarly study of comic books as a narrative form attempts to explain why comic books, traditionally considered to be juvenile trash literature, have in the 1980s been used by serious artists to tell realistic stories for adults

A fine black cook’s recipes from a hardscrabble heritage and its ritual of surviving and rejoicing in family values

The contributors, authorities on Faulkner’s narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner’s fiction-writing process