Thacker Mountain Radio Hour

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Jayne Anne Phillips for Night Watch

Thursday, November 16th – Fall Season Finale: Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the Powerhouse
Showtime: 6 pm

Learn more about the show's lineup here.  Can't make it? Reserve a signed copy of Night Watch. Personalization available.

Night Watch: A novel By Jayne Anne Phillips Cover Image

Night Watch: A novel (Hardcover)

By Jayne Anne Phillips
$28.00
ISBN: 9780451493330
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf - September 19th, 2023

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War—and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds

"A tour de force." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Ellen Ann Fentress for The Steps We Take

A clear-eyed account of white southern womanhood.

 

Thursday, October 12th – Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at The Graduate Oxford!

 Showtime: 6 pm

Learn more about the show's lineup here. 

The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) By Ellen Ann Fentress Cover Image

The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) (Hardcover)

By Ellen Ann Fentress
$25.00
ISBN: 9781496847751
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of Mississippi - August 23rd, 2023

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Boo Trundle for The Daughter Ship

This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink: Katherine, a lost creative soul and suburban mother of two, who has struggled into her forties with the urge to self-harm.
 

Thursday, October 5th – Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the Powerhouse!

 Showtime: 6 pm

The Daughter Ship: A Novel By Boo Trundle Cover Image

The Daughter Ship: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Boo Trundle
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593317297
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pantheon - June 27th, 2023

This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink: Katherine, a lost creative soul and suburban mother of two, who has struggled into her forties with the urge to self-harm.

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Jane Smiley and Ethel Morgan Smith

Thursday, October 26th – Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the Powerhouse!

 Showtime: 6 pm

Learn more about the show's lineup here. 

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom By Jane Smiley Cover Image

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom (Hardcover)

By Jane Smiley
$28.00
ISBN: 9781597146050
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Heyday Books - June 6th, 2023

One of California's leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005's best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.

"Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to discuss. Highly recommended." --Library Journal, starred review

Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement By Ethel Morgan Smith Cover Image

Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)

By Ethel Morgan Smith
$25.00
ISBN: 9781496846419
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Published: University Press of Mississippi - August 10th, 2023

Winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Editor and Contributors of American Landscapes with Luke Russert

Thursday, November 2nd – Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the Lyric!

 Showtime: 6 pm

Learn more about the show's lineup here. 

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World By Ann J. Abadie (Editor), J. Richard Gruber (Editor) Cover Image

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World (Hardcover)

By Ann J. Abadie (Editor), J. Richard Gruber (Editor)
$50.00
ISBN: 9781496845733
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of Mississippi - October 20th, 2023

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South.

Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself By Luke Russert Cover Image

Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself (Hardcover)

By Luke Russert
$28.99
ISBN: 9780785291817
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Published: Harper Horizon - May 2nd, 2023

In Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world's most stunning destinations, he visits the internal places of grief, family, faith, ambition, and purpose--with intense self-reflection, honesty, and courage."--Savannah Guthrie, coanchor of Today

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Steve Azar and Sarah Frances Hardy

Thursday, November 9th – Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the Powerhouse!

 Showtime: 6 pm

Learn more about the show's lineup here. 

Can't make it? Reserve a signed copy of One Mississippi here. Personalization available.

One Mississippi By Steve Azar, Sarah Frances Hardy (Illustrator) Cover Image

One Mississippi (Hardcover)

By Steve Azar, Sarah Frances Hardy (Illustrator)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781949455427
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Published: Nautilus - August 19th, 2023

Based on the new song “One Mississippi” by award-winning performer Steve Azar, and illustrated by award-winning children’s book author Sarah Frances Hardy, One Mississippi will be the children’s gift book for 2023.

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Martin Clark for The Plinko Bounce

Thursday, October 19 – Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at the Powerhouse!

 Showtime: 6 pm

Learn more about the show's lineup here. 

Can't make it? Reserve a signed copy here. Personalization available.

The Plinko Bounce By Martin Clark Cover Image

The Plinko Bounce (Hardcover)

By Martin Clark
$28.00
ISBN: 9781644283776
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Published: Rare Bird - September 12th, 2023

For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes.

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour: William Ferris with I AM A MAN

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour welcomes back former Oxonian Dr. William R. Ferris and his book of history and photos, I Am A Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1960–1970. Our musical guests are the Appalachian string band The Wildmans and Memphis soul legend Don Bryant!

Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobuswhackers

Thursday, March 15

I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 By William R. Ferris, Lonnie G. Bunch (Foreword by) Cover Image

I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 (Hardcover)

By William R. Ferris, Lonnie G. Bunch (Foreword by)
$40.00
ISBN: 9781496831620
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of Mississippi - April 1st, 2021

In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches.

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