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WILLIE MORRIS’S OXFORD

September 9, 2022 By Lawrence Wells

2022 Mississippi Book Festival, Willie Morris panel discussion: Larry Wells, publisher of five books by Willie Morris, noted author and former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, tells how Morris helped Oxford, Mississippi evolve from Faulkner’s shadow to become a literary community in its own right. (Video by Kathleen Wickham, length16 minutes.)

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Jim Weatherly to be awarded University of Mississippi Medal for the Arts

March 14, 2022 By Lawrence Wells

Songwriter and former Ole Miss quarterback Jim Weatherly (1943-2021) will posthumously receive the inaugural University of Mississippi Medal for the Arts. The Ole Miss alumnus will be recognized for his songwriting contributions April 21 at the Ford Center. Full Story: https://bit.ly/3CETYwA

Published by Yoknapatawpha Press 2018

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Thinking of Home: Falkner House & Rowan Oak

February 26, 2022 By Lawrence Wells

Tour of Maud Falkner home and Rowan Oak narrated by Bill Griffith and Larry Wells. Length 26 minutes, directed by Deborah Freeland, produced by Kathleen Wickham, broadcast by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and WKNO-Memphis, Nov 2019.

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About Yoknapatawpha Press

Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional press established by co-publishers, Lawrence Wells and the late Dean Faulkner Wells. Most of the press's projects are generated in-house.The company is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."

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