Publishing Oxford, MS
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
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.
In 1975 Yoknapatawpha Press purchased the unsold copies of the 1969 LSU Press edition of Cabin Road by John Faulkner – Introduction by Redding S. Sugg, Jr. This hardcover shrinkwrapped in mint condition with the original LSU dust jacket, 197 pages, has become a Faulkner collector item. $50.00.
Cabin Road, originally published in 1951, was the first of John Faulkner’s five novels dealing in a humorous vein with the people of the Mississippi back country. It is the rustic tale of a bewildered “government man” marooned among the poor whites of North Mississippi—surrounded by characters as folksy and earthy as any found in old Southwest Humor. Cabin Road shows John Faulkner as an author who displayed originality, vitality, and distinctiveness even when writing in the shadow of his more famous brother.