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12:00 pm
Pulitzer on the Road:
Investigative Journalism
C-SPAN/OLD SUPREME COURT
presented by Mississippi Today
coverage provided by C-SPAN
room by BarbourHurst
These Pulitzer Prize-winners and finalists discuss
their noteworthy journalistic endeavors and the process
of research and reporting.
• Layne Bruce (moderator)
• Anna Wolfe (journalist)
• Jerry Mitchell – Race Against Time:
A Report Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
• Brody Mullins – The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History
of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
The Western Novel
STATE CAPITOL 201 H
presented by Mississippi State University
College of Arts & Sciences;
Friends of Virginia Wilson Mounger
Literary Westerns contain all the exciting
elements of the classic genre – unassuming heroes,
dangerous escapades in the name of justice,
sweeping romances, and more – with the fresh,
sharp voices of contemporary literary fiction.
• Beverly Lowry (moderator) – Deer Creek Drive:
A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
• Elizabeth Crook – The Madstone
• Paulette Jiles – Chenneville
In Conversation
with Natasha Trethewey
STATE CAPITOL 204
presented by Margaret Walker Center
at Jackson State University;
The MAX: Mississippi Arts +
Entertainment Experience
In this intimate and searching meditation,
former US Poet Laureate and Mississippi native
Natasha Trethewey revisits the geography of her
childhood to trace the origins of her writing life
in a volume so lyrically intricate and beautiful,
it could only be written by such a master of poetry.
• Robert E. Luckett, Jr. (moderator) – Redefining Liberal Arts
Education in the Twenty-First Century
• Natasha Trethewey – The House of Being
Food & Memory
STATE CAPITOL 113
presented by The H.T. White Family
Fund; University of Southern Mississippi
University Forum
Poetic prose and lyrical meditations on food
and culture examine the power memory has on
what we choose to eat.
• Cree Myles (moderator)
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil – Bite by Bite:
Nourishments and Jamborees
• Crystal Wilkinson – Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts:
Stories and Recipes from Five Generations
of Black Country Cooks
The Female Lead
in Myth & Fantasy
STATE CAPITOL 201 A
presented by Jackson State University
Authors make history and magic come to life
in these enthralling tales of sirens, dragons,
and Greek mythology reimagined.
• Ebony Lumumba (moderator)
• O.O. Sangoyomi – Masquerade
• Jenn Lyons – The Sky on Fire
• Gabi Burton – Drown Me with Dreams