{"product_id":"a-place-like-mississippi-a-journey-through-a-real-and-imagined-literary-landscape-9781604699586","title":"A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.\" --Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy: An American Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The South has produced some of America's most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have created a literary legacy spanning decades and stretching across lines of class, gender, and race. One thing binds together these wide- ranging perspectives--the land itself. In \u003ci\u003eA Place Like Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, W. Ralph Eubanks explores those ties and the ways in which the Magnolia State has fostered such a bounty of expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The stories haven't always been easy to tell; even beautiful landscapes can't obscure a complicated history. The state's African American writers have long recounted the fight for equality, forming a lineage of powerful Black voices that continue to speak with urgency in our tumultuous times. Yet underlying those truths is also a deep affection for Mississippi's places. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the love of a native son, Eubanks pays tribute to the inspiration that can come from the lay of the land, proving that a journey through one state's literary terrain can help us better understand America as a whole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. Ralph Eubanks is author of \u003ci\u003eEver Is a Long Time \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe House at the End of the Road\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also contributed articles and reviews to the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePreservation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hedgehog Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWIRED\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and NPR. He is a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow at the New America Foundation. Eubanks lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children, and is currently visiting professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Timber Press (OR)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557357326610,"sku":"9781604699586","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dbaac5d0-533a-43c3-b0e0-59a1f1c6117d.jpg?v=1731780092","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-place-like-mississippi-a-journey-through-a-real-and-imagined-literary-landscape-9781604699586","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}