Elizabeth Spencer on Tour with her Latest Book of Stories
Noted author Elizabeth Spencer, native of Carrollton, Mississippi, is on tour with her latest book of short fiction: Starting Over: Stories. She was in Mississippi for appearances in Oxford at Off Square Books, in Jackson at Lemuria, and in Greenwood at Turnrow Books in early February. Spencer has received widespread acclaim for her work, including […] Read more »
Cereus Readers Book Club Focuses on Welty at Lemuria
Lemuria Books, Jackson, Mississippi’s renowned independent bookstore and a favorite of Eudora’s, hosts a monthly book club centered on Welty— books she wrote and books by writers she admired and writers who inspired her. Cereus Readers meet on the fourth Thursdays of the month from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the bookstore’s “dot.com building.” […] Read more »
Public Hears Novelist Jill McCorkle, Photographer Tom Rankin at Millsaps
Award-winning novelist and short story writer Jill McCorkle presented a public reading from her latest novel, Life after Life, at Millsaps College on February 19. The program was held in conjunction with McCorkle’s visit to Suzanne Marrs’ English classes at the college and sponsored by the Millsaps – Welty Foundation Partnership. McCorkle is the author of four […] Read more »
‘Little Free Library’ Opens at the Welty Education and Visitors Center
The “Little Free Library” has opened a “branch” at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center next door to the Welty House and Garden. Built on the concept of “take a book, leave a book,” the library structure was designed by Arthur Jones and constructed by Jeff Becker in the English Tudor architectural style of […] Read more »