The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Conversations with Tom Robbins
More than twenty interviews with the acclaimed author of Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life With Woodpecker, B Is for Beer, and many other novels
And One Was a Priest
The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr.
The story of a civil rights crusader and Episcopal priest
Danny Boyle
Interviews
Collected interviews with the British director of such films as Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, and 28 Days Later
Naming the Rose
Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Essays by Hans Kellner, Lois Parkinson Zambora, Mark Parker, Michael Cohen, Joan DelFattore, Pierre L. Horn, H. Aram Veeser, Helen T. Bennett, Jocelyn Mann, Deborah Parker, Roger Rollin, and Jackson R. Bryer and Ruth M. Alvarez
Chicano Graffiti and Murals
The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada
A study of an artist and his art that proliferates over north Los Angeles
The Rise of the American Comics Artist
Creators and Contexts
An exploration of an art form’s transformation from adolescent charms to adult aesthetics
Alice Faye
A Life Beyond the Silver Screen
The biography of 20th Century Fox’s beloved, velvet-voiced beauty
Haitian Vodou Flags
A celebration of a genre of Haitian art inspired by myths, legends, and unique personal visions
Michael Winterbottom
Interviews
Collected interviews with the British director of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo, Butterfly Kiss, and The Killer Inside Me
Christmas Memories from Mississippi
Warm recollections of the unique Yuletide experience in Mississippi
Conversations with Russell Banks
Over thirty years of interviews with the author of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Cloudsplitter
Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II
Histories and photos of spectacular homes lost to war, disaster, and neglect
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
The Great Truth about the Lost Cause
Resounding documentary proof that the original reasoning behind secession and subsequently myth-making was in defense of slavery and white supremacy
Brother-Souls
John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
A biography of the two comrades whose friendship defined what it meant to be one of The Beats
The Egg Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Second Edition
The updated saga of the state’s monster football rivalry
Daniel Clowes
Conversations
Collected interviews with the alternative artist who created Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, as well as screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential
Oraien Catledge
Photographs
The celebration of a life’s work in fine art photography
Sacred Light
Holy Places in Louisiana
A decade’s worth of fine art photography taken in the most divine spaces of an elegantly devout state
Guy Maddin
Interviews
Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian director of such films as The Dead Father and Careful
Women Writers of the Contemporary South
Evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers
Witness to Injustice
A black moonshiner and civil rights activist’s autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians
Why I Left America and Other Essays
An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him
Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons
A revealing study tracing the mechanism of literary evaluation by which the work of Wallace Stevens became a central and revered part of the treasury of modern American poetry
Troubling Violence
A Performance Project
A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violence
The New Deal and the South
The first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South
The Guitar in America
Victorian Era to Jazz Age
From parlor instrument to jazz electric, a study of musical evolution in America’s progressive era
The Fruits of Integration
Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990
Straight White Male
Performance Art Monologues
An engaging exploration of the white heterosexual male as portrayed by professional monologists
Sidelines Activist
Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights
The biography of the president of Fisk University and his role as a precursor of racial change in America