Collected interviews that show how the mind of an enormously talented and multifaceted artist works while conveying a sense of the generosity and optimism that keep him experimenting and learning

A disclosure of the deaths of jazz artists and their often fatal lifestyles

A handsome and informative book featuring Welty among her peers in painting, photography, and other arts during the 1930s

A new edition of a classic book about the environmental triumph that saved a southeast Mississippi wetland

Lush photographs of and informative text about the primeval Okefenokee wetlands area in the American southeast

The best interviews and profiles of America’s most prominent African American filmmaker

Sweeping photographs portraying the rebirth and rise of modern Memphis, Tennessee

Collected talks with the American statesman who delineated the West’s Cold War policy of Soviet containment

The first-ever collection of interviews with this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years

In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A’s, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work

A sports insider cries foul at America’s obsession with big-time athletics

Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon

This collection allows the reader to trace the roots—both literary and autobiographical—of one of America’s most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers.

An African American woman’s unblinking look at her troubled years as an unwanted child in foster care

Ingenious short fiction from the author of the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese

An array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that this multidimensional film director and actor was in the public eye

Interviews which chart the rise and fall and rise again of the writer-director-producer’s surprising career from 1989 to 2001

The complete angler’s guidebook to landing the state’s many game fish

The most current thought on Native Americans of the colonial South

Mystic meanings behind the flourishing art of modern-day pagans and witches

An elegantly illustrated collection of forty-nine traditional tales from the Sunshine State

An authoritative separation of myth from fact in the life of the great country music star

A revved-up cruise through a world where chopped Mercs and slammed Chevies are works of art

An updated edition of a standard work documenting the interrelationship of two racial cultures in antebellum Florida and Oklahoma

A history of the Magnolia State’s notorious watchdog agency established for maintaining racial segregation