Happy October! 🎃 All month long, you can pre-order THE BUNDY ARCHIVE: GENEALOGIES OF WHITE MASCULINITY by @bryanjmckinney.bsky.social at 25% off on the @upmississippi.bsky.social website.

Don't miss this scary good deal! 😱📚✨

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Ending the work day with news that copies of TOO FAST, TOO SHORT: THE LIFE OF DIANA BARRYMORE have arrived in the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse!
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So excited for this biography of the complex, talented actress and Hollywood socialite to hit shelves soon. 💗✨

And just like that... Copies of STEVE MCQUEEN: INTERVIEWS have arrived in the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse!
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The latest addition to our Conversations with Filmmakers series will be making its way in the world shortly. 📽️✨

Happy #BookBirthday to RUPTURING RHETORIC: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND POPULAR CULTURE SINCE FERGUSON! 🥳

This anthology on popular media, race, and public discourse hit shelves one year ago. Excited to see it continue to make an impact. ✊📚✨

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#ICYMI: University Press of Mississippi's 🔥📚 #Juneteenth Reading List 📚🔥, with recent and forthcoming titles that celebrate Black life, history, and the ongoing struggle for justice and equality

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Love seeing WADING IN: DESEGREGATION ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST continue to make an impact. 🎉

In his full review, James C. Giesen compares Amy Lemco's book to the work of John Dittmer and Charles Payne—some of the highest praise a civil rights scholar can get! 😊📚🔥

👏 Just got the page proofs for JULIE DASH: INTERVIEWS, forthcoming this September from @upmississippi.bsky.social. So excited to add this one to our Conversations with Filmmakers series! 📚✨

Had a blast slinging books and talking film studies at the Stranger Than Fiction Film Fest this weekend. #ICYMI, you can get 30% off books in the Conversations with Filmmakers series from @upmississippi.bsky.social, now through April 30! 📽️📚✨

✨ SIGNED COPIES ALERT ✨

James C. Taylor (@jamesctaylor.bsky.social) stopped by the @upmississippi.bsky.social table at #SCMS2025 to sign copies of his newly released book, THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE, AND MEANING. For sale now for only $20!

All set up and open for business at #SCMS2025. Come see me for the latest @upmississippi.bsky.social titles in film, media, horror, comics, and more! 📽️📚🔥

Happy Birthday, Quentin Tarantino! JACKIE BROWN rules.

Love to start the week with some good press! 🎉 @robbyjsu.bsky.social reviews Amy Lemco's WADING IN: DESEGREGATION ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST for the @joursouhist.bsky.social. This "broadly accessible" history is available now from @upmississippi.bsky.social! ✨📝💪

"You kind of like the wood, and the sun is just right, and the glue, you've got enough of it. Some little bit of wire. And you know what the wood does and you know what the glue does, and the wire, and your imagination is seeing the whole thing."

Soothing myself by digging through DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS. So many little gems in this book.

Proofing the full cover of RUSS MEYER: INTERVIEWS this afternoon. Can't wait to add the King of Sleaze to the Conversations with Filmmakers series lineup this spring!

Came back to the office to a notification that copies 📚 of Carrie Helms Tippen's UNPALATABLE 👅 STORIES OF PAIN 😖 AND PLEASURE ☺️ IN SOUTHERN COOKBOOKS have hit the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse 🚚📦

So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉