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As a result of the severe storms expected in the Oxford area this evening, the University of Mississippi will close at noon today. Unfortunately, this means that Imani Perry’s lecture at 6:30 p.m. and the opening-night party at 7:30 are cancelled. The Oxford Conference for the Book will resume as scheduled tomorrow morning beginning at … Continued

The Mississippi Humanities Council announced recipients for its 2022 Public Humanities Awards, which recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences. Recipients were honored at a public ceremony and reception Friday evening, March 25, at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. Ralph Eubanks won the  Reflecting Mississippi Award for … Continued

Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Liz Scheier about her memoir “Never Simple.” Scheier is a former Penguin Random House editor who worked in publishing and content development for many years, and her session “Each Unhappy Family: Memoir and Memory” will be at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, April 1 at the Old Armory Pavilion (an open-air facility on the … Continued

Next Thursday’s 6:00 p.m. OCB edition of the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, originally scheduled to take place at Harrison’s just off the Oxford Square, will move to the Old Armory Pavilion (on the corner of Bramlett Blvd. and University Ave.), where three of Friday’s sessions will also take place.  

Last year William Boyle discussed his new novel “Shoot the Moonlight Out” with Patrick Millikin and very special guest Willy Vlautin, who was an Oxford Conference for the Book panelist in 2019.