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.

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Conversations with Tom Robbins

University Press of Mississippi

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

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And One Was a Priest

The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr.

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a civil rights crusader and Episcopal priest

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Danny Boyle

Interviews

Edited by Brent Dunham
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the British director of such films as Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, and 28 Days Later

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Naming the Rose

Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

Edited by M. Thomas Inge; Foreword by Umberto Eco
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Chicano Graffiti and Murals

The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada

University Press of Mississippi

A study of an artist and his art that proliferates over north Los Angeles

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The Rise of the American Comics Artist

Creators and Contexts

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of an art form’s transformation from adolescent charms to adult aesthetics

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Alice Faye

A Life Beyond the Silver Screen

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of 20th Century Fox’s beloved, velvet-voiced beauty

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Haitian Vodou Flags

University Press of Mississippi

A celebration of a genre of Haitian art inspired by myths, legends, and unique personal visions

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Michael Winterbottom

Interviews

Edited by Damon Smith
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the British director of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo, Butterfly Kiss, and The Killer Inside Me

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Christmas Memories from Mississippi

Edited by Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker; Illustrated by Wyatt Waters
University Press of Mississippi

Warm recollections of the unique Yuletide experience in Mississippi

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Conversations with Russell Banks

Edited by David Roche
University Press of Mississippi

Over thirty years of interviews with the author of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Cloudsplitter

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Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II

University Press of Mississippi

Histories and photos of spectacular homes lost to war, disaster, and neglect

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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader

The Great Truth about the Lost Cause

University Press of Mississippi

Resounding documentary proof that the original reasoning behind secession and subsequently myth-making was in defense of slavery and white supremacy

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Brother-Souls

John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of the two comrades whose friendship defined what it meant to be one of The Beats

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The Egg Bowl

Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Second Edition

University Press of Mississippi

The updated saga of the state’s monster football rivalry

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Daniel Clowes

Conversations

Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the alternative artist who created Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, as well as screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential

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Oraien Catledge

Photographs

Edited by Constance Lewis and Richard Ford; Introduction by Richard Ford
University Press of Mississippi

The celebration of a life’s work in fine art photography

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Sacred Light

Holy Places in Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

A decade’s worth of fine art photography taken in the most divine spaces of an elegantly devout state

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Guy Maddin

Interviews

Edited by D. K. Holm
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian director of such films as The Dead Father and Careful

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Women Writers of the Contemporary South

University Press of Mississippi

Evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers

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Witness to Injustice

By David Frost; Edited by Louise Westling; Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
University Press of Mississippi

A black moonshiner and civil rights activist’s autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians

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Why I Left America and Other Essays

University Press of Mississippi

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

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Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Troubling Violence

A Performance Project

University Press of Mississippi

A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violence

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The New Deal and the South

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South

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The Guitar in America

Victorian Era to Jazz Age

University Press of Mississippi

From parlor instrument to jazz electric, a study of musical evolution in America’s progressive era

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The Fruits of Integration

Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990

University Press of Mississippi
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Straight White Male

Performance Art Monologues

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging exploration of the white heterosexual male as portrayed by professional monologists

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Sidelines Activist

Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of the president of Fisk University and his role as a precursor of racial change in America

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