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Greenville, MS 38701
A few quotes
from
Greenville authors... We, more than any other part of our nation, have subjected ourselves and have been subjected to constant examination and constant criticism. No other region in the United States has for as long a period been examined as closely by as many of its own people and so critically and often so blindly from the outside. That in itself has produced relations which help explain why Southerners write. We have the tools, we have the inspiration at hand, we have the challenge to write about this still disorderly region of ours.
Hodding Carter, Jr.
First Person Rural (1963)
Barefootin' is about moving forward, following a new path even though you don't know where it will lead you; tearing down roadblocks, cutting new roads, and never forgetting where you started...You can do it. Your spirit is in your fee, and your feet can run free. Unita Blackwell
Barefootin' (2006)
I am a writer and my entire factory is the size of a portable typewriter. I can live anywhere in the world I wish. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t live anywhere in the world but on this sun-blistered mud flat.
Bern Keating
Mississippi (1982)
If you can’t find something to laugh about, you will end up crying.
Gayden Metcalfe
Charlotte Hays
Being Dead Is No Excuse (2005)
Bring to bear your own [stories] so that others can experience the world we’ve lived in, in all its complex and fascinating mystery.
Ellen Douglas
Witnessing (2004)
I used to joke that living here is much like living in the Old Testament…
I have revised my opinion. We have it much worse…the plagues in Egypt lasted only seven days. Ours never end.
Julia Reed
Queen of
the Turtle Derby (2004)
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Time Stops
in the Delta
by Mary Dayle McCormick Time stopped in the Delta the last Sunday of April 2000. That was the day news staff from Time magazine, cruising the Mississippi for a new view of life along the river, diverted from the channel and docked their rented yacht on the banks of Greenville’s Lake Ferguson. On this mild Sunday afternoon in April (eighty degrees and breezy is mild by Delta standards) I stood at the door of my husband’s bookstore, anticipating our guests’ arrival... Editors and Lesser Editors who’d decide what the world would or would not know about us and everyone else along the Mississippi River. Lord help us. No kidding... LINK to full article |
 This was the original
Mrs. McCormick,
Kathleen
"Mrs. Mac"
McCormick
December 1986
John
of God
Patron Saint
of
Booksellers
Ex - Book Peddler
Nursing Order
Founder
1550
Patron
of
Independent Booksellers,
Printers,
Hospitals, Nurses,
the Sick & Dying
Invoked against
Alcoholism, Heart Disease
&
Amazon.com
illustration
from
the birthday book of saints
by
sean kelly
&
rosemary rogers
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Literature
&
Greenville:
it’s like
drinking
the brown
water.
It’s just
what
we do.
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| Julia Reed is the first Greenville author to publish two new books simultaneously with two publishers! She signs "Ham Biscuits" and "The House on First Street" - July 2008 |  | |  | | 
| McCormick Book Inn guests enjoyed W.Hodding Carter's visit and reading when he signed "Off the Deep End" - June 2008 | 
| Elli Morris, center, author of "Cooling the South" - June 2008
photo:bill johnson, ddt |  | "Hallum's War" author Elisabeth Payne Rosen with family and friends at her signing - June 2008 The Glorious Freckled Midlife Redheads in Chartreuse Club | 
| A double signing inside & outside celebrated "Highway 61" by Randall Norris and Eden Brent's new CD release "Mississippi No.1" - May 2008 |  |  | 
| Ellen Gilchrist read and signed "A Dangerous Age" - May 2008 photo: bill johnson, ddt
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| "Mudbound" author Hillary Jordan at McCormick Book Inn & 2008 MS Delta Book Tour. More pictures:
Delta Lit Tour2008 | 
| Charles E. Cobb Jr. reads to book buyers at his McCBI signing for "On the Road to Freedom" - Feb 2008 | 
|  | Workshop & signing.
"Fireflies in Fruit Jars."
authors Marion Barnwell, Patti Carr Black, Lottie Brent Boggan, Mary D. McCormick, Melanie Noto, Dorothy Shawhan, Carlene Singleton, Sue Stock, & Judy Tucker. - Dec 2007 |  | 
| "Gridiron Gold" - Dec 2007 FOR A LARGER VIEW CLICK HERE photo:
Johnson/DDT | 
| Wyatt Waters and Robert St. John sign "Southern Seasons" for Iris Mitchell - Nov 2007 | 
| Paul Canonici and friends at his signing for "So Italian" -- Oct 2007 | 
| Mississippi Art Teachers' Greenville weekend workshop began and ended at McCormick Book Inn - Oct 2007
More photos | 
| Mary Dayle was the guest speaker when Ella Darling Elementary School honored their young writers - Oct 2007
MORE PICTURES | 
| Melody Golding signed "Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember" -- Aug 2007
MORE
PHOTOS |  | Carolyn Haines and the Brown Bag Lunch bunch for "Ham Bones" -- Aug 2007
Ham Bones Event Photos |  | Sherry Pace speaks to the Hebrew Union & St. Joseph tour about her book "Historic Churches of Mississippi"-- Aug. 2007
EVENT PHOTOS |  | See our midnight Harry Potter Party pictures! POTTER PARTY LINK |  A book party
with Maggie Dunlap video
| Illustrator Maggie Dunlap reads her
"The Four Dog Blues Band"
accompanied by Eden Brent
-- June 2007
Book Party photos |  TO SEE
MORE PHOTOS
CLICK
Lilly Beth signing | Charlotte Hays & Gayden Metcalfe sign "Somebody Is Going To Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet" -- April 2007 | MORE PHOTOS AT SCRAPBOOK ARCHIVES
We thank
our friend Melainie
for her many pictures.
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In Mississippi, everybody's got a Faulkner story...
 WILLIAM FAULKNER
PHOTO TAKEN BY
JACK SHULTS
IN ROLLING FORK, MS
FOR THE DEER CREEK PILOT
1950A friend in my hometown of Rolling Fork sent me a copy of a tourism brochure using the photo of Faulkner at the left. It was credited to my late father, a photographer who sometimes took pictures for the county newspaper.
I'd never seen this picture or even heard my father mention having taken it - which isn't surprising since he didn't care for Mr. Faulkner's writing ("Now, his brother John, he could write a good story you could read") or his drinking habits ("Tying one on at the camp with the boys is one thing but staggering in front of women in broad open daylight is a whole nother thing"), so I contacted former schoolmate Ken DeCell, the son of Hal DeCell, the late editor of The Deer Creek Pilot. I asked Ken if he knew anything about the picture.
Ken DeCell is an author and senior editor of Washingtonian magazine. He shared this with me: | The story I grew up with is that your dad [Jack Shults] came into the Pilot office in late fall of 1950 and told Daddy [Hal DeCell] that Mr. Bill Faulkner had been hunting in Sharkey County and was down at the cafe having breakfast--and because he had just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Daddy should go interview him. (I think the cafe was in the block where Sorrell's Drug Store and Marvin's pool hall used to be, but that could be wrong.)
Daddy knew Faulkner from Oxford, and knew he didn't like to be interviewed, so he tried to just strike up a conversation as Faulkner ate and cover the fact that he was a newspaperman. Faulkner was reasonably cordial at first, but he got less voluble the more questions Daddy asked.
Figuring he'd pushed his luck as far as he could, Daddy said, "Mr. Bill, you know, I've always wondered: Out of all the books, which one is your personal favorite?" Faulkner didn't miss a beat: "I'd have to say that was Lanterns on the Levee."
It was press day, so Daddy ran back to the paper, wrote the story on the Linotype--that is, in hot lead--and remade the front page for it. As the last copies were coming off the press, it suddenly hit Daddy--alas, too late: Lanterns on the Levee, of course, was by William Alexander Percy. | To make Faulkner's joke even more caustic, and probably unknown to most folks, Faulkner didn't like Will Percy. Seems there were hard feelings from years earlier when Ben Wasson tried to broker an acquaintance between Faulkner and Percy.  Supposedly, Faulkner was invited for a tennis game at Percy's home in Greenville but showed up inebriated and barefoot. Percy instructed Wasson to remove Faulkner from the premises and never bring him back. Folks in Greenville still tell the story. Local color never fades. Mary Dayle Shults McCormick | Of Will Percy it might be said that he is to the state of Mississippi what William Allen White is to Kansas, what Fiorello LaGuardia is to Manhattan. Each has his life story identified with, inextricably joined to, his locale and region. The deep South, the old South, new South, several Souths move across Percy's autobiography. CARLSANDBURG'S
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