2024 Schedule Flipbook as of 9.12.24
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In Conversation
with Jesmyn Ward
GALLOWAY SANCTUARY
PRESENTED BY Argent Wealth; Pass Christian
Books & Cat Island Cofeehouse
LeVar Burton, legendary actor and host
of Reading Rainbow, speaks with Jesmyn Ward,
two-time National Book Award winner and lifelong
Mississippian, about her newest novel, a meditation
on grief and memory through the story of a young girl’s
fght for freedom in the face of enslavement.
• LeVar Burton
• Jesmyn Ward – Let Us Descend
Cookbooks
GALLOWAY RECEPTION
PRESENTED BY University of Southern
Mississippi College of Arts & Sciences
Delicious collections draw from the wisdom
of the Deep South and far-fung countries
to create meals as captivating as they are comforting.
• Enrika Williams (moderator)
• Robert St. John – Mississippi Mornings
• Dale Gray – South of Somewhere:
Recipes and Stories from My Life in South Africa, South Korea
& the American South
• Ann Taylor Pittman – The Global Pantry Cookbook:
Transform Your Everyday Cooking with Tahini, Gochujang, Miso,
and Other Irresistible Ingredients
• Anne Byrn – Baking in the American South:
200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories
(A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking)
Families are invited to join the authors and illustrators
of picture books for an incredible learning experience
about animals, music, and nature.
• Sarah Frances Hardy (moderator) – One Mississippi
• Mary Annaïse Heglar – The World is Ours to Cherish:
A Letter to a Child
• Heather C. Morris – Trunk Goes Thunk!:
A Woodland Tale of Opposites
• Allen R. Wells – Danté Plays His Blues
• Marshall Ramsey – Saving Sam!:
A Banjo the Dog Story
Live-stream at
msbookfestival.com
Picture This!
GALLOWAY FELLOWSHIP
CENTER
PRESENTED BY Sara & Bill Ray;
Te Ragland Company
A Letter to a Child
The World Is
Ours to Cherish
By Mary Annaïse Heglar Illustrated by Vivian Mineker
Sebastian Junger
STATE CAPITOL 113
PRESENTED BY Te McMullan / O’Connor
Fund; University of Southern Mississippi
College of Arts & Sciences
Sebastian Junger, award-winning war journalist
and lifelong atheist, discusses a near-death experience
that led him to rethink what, exactly, happens
after we die.
• Sebastian Junger – In My Time of Dying:
How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Mad about Madville Press
STATE CAPITOL 204
PRESENTED BY PATH Company;
Beth & Chip Pickering
Tese portraits of characters fnding themselves
in the face of real-life disasters speak to the life lived
in-between the headlines and the human ability
to adapt in the face of adversity.
• Darden North (moderator) – Party Favors
• Julie Liddell Whitehead – Hurricane Baby: Stories
• Steve Yates – The Lakes of Southern Hollow
• R. J. Lee – The Majestic Leo Marble
Power & Influence
C-SPAN/OLD SUPREME COURT
PRESENTED BY Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP;
Te Roost & Te Springs Hotel
in Ocean Springs, MS
COVERAGE PROVIDED BY C-SPAN
ROOM BY BarbourHurst
Tese books of scandal and corruption shed light
on how power is found and abused in unlikely ways.
• Betsy Fischer Martin (moderator)
• Brody Mullins – The Wolves of K Street:
The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over
Big Government
• Shad White – Mississippi Swindle:
Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America
• Luke Mullins – The Wolves of K Street:
The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over
Big Government
2024 Presidential Election
STATE CAPITOL 201 H
PRESENTED BY Frontier Strategies
From the campaign trail to the oval ofce, these insiders
give their perspectives on the presidential politics
currently dominating our headlines as we head into
the 2024 election.
• Jonathan Martin (moderator) – This Will Not Pass:
Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
• Jonathan Karl – Tired of Winning: Donald Trump
and the End of the Grand Old Party
Mississippi Memoirs
STATE CAPITOL 201 A
PRESENTED BY Mississippi Votes;
Nautilus Publishing
Mississippi authors discuss their uniquely true stories
of unlikely success and powerful connections.
• Ellen Ann Fentress (moderator) – The Steps We Take:
A Memoir of Southern Reckoning
• Di Rushing – The Delta in the Rearview Mirror:
The Life and Death of Mississippi’s First Winery
• J.L. Holloway – Nothing to Lose:
A Story of Poverty, Resilience, and Gratitude
• Marion Garrard Barnwell – All the Things We Didn’t Say:
Two Memoirs
• X.M. Frascogna, Jr. – The Saints of St. Mary’s:
A true story of old school values and parenting lessons learned
through youth sports
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