W. Ralph Eubanks Named Interim Authors Guild President. publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/i…

Join me May 14 at the Arlington VA Pub Lib for a conversation with Jesmyn Ward, as part of the 2024 Arlington Reads spring series, 'James Baldwin Centennial,' which celebrates what would have been James Baldwin's 100th birthday.
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Look at the frat boys in the background screaming, mocking, flipping her off, waving American flags.

The hate—all because she and others are protesting against genocide—really sticks out.

We've seen this before in Mississippi.

In 2022, during the midterms, it was widely reported that young people, among others, helped save American democracy. Now it feels like some are all-too willing to throw young people away. They do so at their own, and the country’s, peril.

House agrees to work requirement on Medicaid expansion, throwing many Mississippians out the hospital window.
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“Academic freedom is an understanding, not a law. It can’t just be invoked. It has to be asserted and defended. That’s why it’s so disheartening that leaders of great universities appear reluctant to speak up for the rights of independent inquiry…” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

On Confederate Memorial Day, an honest annotation of the Mississippi Declaration of Secession. This should be posted every year. mississippitoday.org/2024/04/29/con…

The latest from Marshall Ramsey: The Choice

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What you do when you are ashamed your state still celebrates Confederate Memorial Day: just call it a 'state holiday.'

“Poems help me to know what I’m feeling. Out of the depths of my heart will come a quotation completely unbidden. And then I will think, Oh, so that’s what I am feeling today.” —Helen Vendler

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If museum exhibitions are meant to inspire and unsettle, the Mississippi Museum of Art has embraced its mission wholeheartedly, shining a light on a topic that is still largely taboo: mental illness and the state’s response to it. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/art…

Looking at what's unfolding at #ColumbiaUniversity , I can't help but think about what happened in 1970 on the campus of the University of Mississippi: egrove.olemiss.edu/blkpower_ohist…

Eight day countdown: Thrilled to be talking with Kiese Laymon on April 23, 7 pm at the Strand in NYC. eventbrite.com/e/tracie-mcmil…

Congratulations to the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows! Here is a message from President Edward Hirsch (1985 Fellow) #guggfellows2024 : youtube.com/shorts/C7kus1b…

I'm looking forward to sharing my book with you all in person at several events in the coming months. I'm particularly glad to debut it here in Oxford Square Books. Thanks to Katie McKee of UM Southern Studies for agreeing to discuss it with me! If you're in the area, come join us!