Rodeo champ. Oscar winner. Hollywood cowboy. 🏆🐎 TALL IN THE SADDLE tells the true story of Ben Johnson’s unforgettable ride from Oklahoma ranches to the silver screen. 📚 Pre-order now: buff.ly/cSPNu5R #TALLINTHESADDLE #BenJohnson #UPMississippi #FilmBooks #NowSpinning

Curated by yours truly, every movie on the list is inspired by books in @upmississippi.bsky.social's horror list. 🍿👻 🎞️ Pair each film with a spooky smart read. 📚✨ www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...

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! 😱📚✨ www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...

🕷️ Horror isn’t just scary—it’s cultural. Our spooky-season books trace Poe, Romero, slashers & spectral storytelling across traditions. 📖 Discover the scholarship of fear. buff.ly/hK45CrV #SpookySeason #UPMississippi

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! 🚚📦📚 So excited for this biography of the complex, talented actress and Hollywood socialite to hit shelves soon. 💗✨

We are surprised & disappointed to learn of plans to close @bucknellupress.bsky.social in 2026. AUPresses has offered our community’s assistance & insights to the university as planning for the press proceeds. https://bit.ly/41yszu5 Learn more abt the press's work: https://bit.ly/4m1elcH #ReadUP

We look at medical history with Thomas Helling as we discuss his new book _Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South_ @upmississippi.bsky.social Southerners thought of their region as different, which impacted medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/1ozM...

“Everything I write is rooted in Jackson,” Kiese Laymon said. “I spent my childhood there and have always loved it. My life here, and in Mississippi as a whole, is what matters the most to me."

Will revised Mississippi textbook ever make it to the classroom? "Mississippi Conflict & Change" is back in print for the first time in four decades.

“Landowning Black farmers had independence—and became leaders of the civil rights movement.” Author Diane T. Feldman shares more on @MPBOnline’s Mississippi Edition with host Desare Frazier. 🎧 Interview starts at 17:23: buff.ly/pq1pvB6 #BlackHistory #CivilRights #UPMississippi #BookTalk

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

🎥 Just reviewed in CINEASTE! FILM BY DESIGN isn't just about poster nostalgia—it’s a sharp, scholarly look at how movie posters function as paratexts. Out now from University Press of Mississippi. buff.ly/nQbc17J #FilmByDesign #MoviePosters #Cineaste #PosterArt #CinemaStudies

Holmes County’s history shaped the nation. BORROWED LAND, STOLEN LABOR, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT—land, faith, and the fight for justice. 📚 Available now. buff.ly/ejD7UJS #HolmesCountyHistory #CivilRightsHistory #UPMississippi

📚 RUSS MEYER: INTERVIEWS is a recommended summer read from @TheFilmStage—alongside books on Gandolfini, ASTEROID CITY & more! 🎬 A wild ride through cult cinema in Meyer’s own words. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/QcDIAM3 📘 Book info: buff.ly/PPzk0qt #RussMeyer #FilmBooks #UPMississippi #SummerReading

"This is the first biography of Milland, yet it is likely to become the standard work because of its comprehensiveness." @crollyson.bsky.social reviews DASHING TO THE END: THE RAY MILLAND STORY for @newyorksun.bsky.social 🎬📚✨ www.nysun.com/article/a-ho...

🎬 We’ve ranked Steve McQueen’s films on Letterboxd! Explore his work—from HUNGER to 12 YEARS A SLAVE—as we get ready for STEVE MCQUEEN: INTERVIEWS ✨ See the list ➡️ buff.ly/2zIW4XI #CinemaLovers #FilmHistory #SteveMcQueen #Cinephile #FilmCommunity

Happy EYES WIDE SHUT day to all who celebrate! 🎭🍿 IMO the best argument against the film being a Christmas movie (it is) is it's July release date.

Thrilled to see @riknight36.bsky.social name LLOYD KAUFMAN: INTERVIEWS among these "7 great books about the craft of filmmaking." 💚 www.cinemablend.com/movies/7-boo... via @cinemablend.com

"Fans of Cole Porter can delight in a wonderful new book about this prolific composer’s musicals." @home2hollywood.bsky.social recommends Bernard F. Dick's THE MUSICALS OF COLE PORTER: BROADWAY, HOLLYWOOD, TELEVISION, available now from @upmississippi.bsky.social 🎶📚✨

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Boosting one more time, if you need a thematically relevant reading list this Independence Day 📚✊

On July 2, we honor Medgar Evers—more than a martyr, he was a devoted husband and father. “We had no money, but we had each other—and the conviction that what we did…was more than just a job; it was a purpose.” —Myrlie Evers-Williams, FOR US, THE LIVING

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. ✊📚✨ www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Rupt...

"A well-researched biography and tribute to Milland. . . . I strongly recommend this book to fans of Milland’s work as well as individuals looking to learn more about this actor." @home2hollywood.bsky.social reviews DASHING TO THE END: THE RAY MILLAND STORY by Eric Monder. 🎬📚✨

Another week, another new title now available for pre-order from @upmississippi.bsky.social! 📚✨ TALL IN THE SADDLE: THE LIFE OF BEN JOHNSON, HOLLYWOOD’S REAL COWBOY by Kathryn Jones is forthcoming in March 2026. 🤠🐎💖 www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/Tall...

The online roundtable of From Rights To Lives! with Charles McKinney, Shannon King, Marcia Chatelain, Wesley Hogan, and Brett Gadsden www.aaihs.org/online-round...

🪄 POTTER STINKS: GENDER AND SPECIES IN J. K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER SERIES by Keridiana Chez, acquired by the brilliant @htaehyram.bsky.social for @upmississippi.bsky.social, excerpted in Lit Hub today ✨💚

#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 www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...

What does it mean to grow up queer in a world of stories not made for you? QUEER ANXIETIES OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AND CULTURE explores how books + pop culture shape queer identity—for better or worse. What YA book made you feel seen? 🌈📚 #PrideReads #QueerLit #UPMississippi

Do you teach Southern history? The civil rights movement? Consider adding WADING IN to your syllabus. ✏️ As Giesen writes, "This is a book I will assign my undergraduates because it will keep their attention and my graduate students as a model of how to write a detailed local history that moves.” 📚✨

"All of these anxieties, anxieties about coming into the local classroom and usurping the parents' role, all of that was there from the beginning. And now we're having the exact same debates." —Michael Steudeman (@msteudeman.bsky.social) on the post-Civil War Department of Education's vexing legacy

🎧 Michael J. Steudeman, author of ABSENCE OF NATIONAL FEELING: EDUCATION DEBATES IN THE RECONSTRUCTION CONGRESS, coming soon from @upmississippi.bsky.social, talks education on last week's episode of Throughline from @npr.org.

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! 😊📚🔥

If any historian is working on Mississippi, consider a submission for commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026 in the Journal of Mississippi History. See link www.mississippihistory.org/call-for-pap...

Raise your hand if you had Molly growing up because you, too, wore glasses 🙋‍♀️ @gardenandgun.com writes about AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY: FINDING OURSELVES IN THE PLEASANT COMPANY UNIVERSE, out now from @upmississippi.bsky.social 💗📚✨ gardenandgun.com/articles/the...

🗣️ New title alert! THE BUNDY ARCHIVE: GENEALOGIES OF WHITE MASCULINITY by Bryan J. McCann (@bryanjmccann.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order from @upmississippi.bsky.social: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-... Coming in January! 📚✨

"Few interview books are as bonkers as they are insightful as this one." 💚 Read an exclusive entry from LLOYD KAUFMAN: INTERVIEWS, edited by Mathew Klickstein 👇 www.comicsbeat.com/lloyd-kaufma... via @comicsbeat.bsky.social @upmississippi.bsky.social @lloydkaufman.bsky.social

Loved this post from last week on the sound and music of David Lynch, and loved seeing @upmississippi.bsky.social's DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS listed in the "Further Reading" section.

Congratulations to Jafar Panahi, who won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival! For more on the Iranian filmmaker known for his remarkable films and courageous defiance of state censorship, pick up a copy today of JAFAR PANAHI: INTERVIEWS. buff.ly/MRAxlq0 #cannesfilmfestival #jafarpanahi

CFP Contemporary Indigenous Horror—looking for academic chapters and nonfiction pieces www.cfplist.com/CFP/44439

Happy Wednesday! Been a while since I've done one of these, but in honor of the @upmississippi.bsky.social ✨ anniversary sale ✨, here's a thread of forthcoming titles 📚 acquired by yours truly 😊 available for pre-order at 55% off w/ free shipping til Friday (5/23)!! 😱🔥 💻: www.upress.state.ms.us 👇

Classic Hollywood fans can pre-order Anthony Uzarowski's wonderful biography on Lauren Bacall (with a stunning front cover!) for 55% off during @upmississippi.bsky.social birthday sale. I was delighted to be a reader/reviewer for this book and my endorsement is on the site #laurenbacall #newbook

We're celebrating UPM's 55th Anniversary with 55% off ALL TITLES, including AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY, edited by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler & KC Hysmith. buff.ly/urBVccs May 14–23, 2025 Plus get free US shipping with no minimum purchase! @kchysmith.bsky.social @justineodashs.bsky.social

Beginning TODAY (May 14, 2025), @upmississippi.bsky.social will offer a 55% website discount on all books, including mine. Click here to order: www.upress.state.ms.us/Contribu.../...

My shiny new book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is currently 55% off on @upmississippi.bsky.social's website (along with all their other titles)! Bargains to be had if you're in the US and get free shipping. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...

To celebrate 55 years of @upmississippi.bsky.social they are offering 55% off all books! The pre-order of my Ray Milland book in paperback for just $13.50 and paperbacks of both my Milland and Robert Taylor books are less than $30! There are many fab titles from this publisher in film, music, etc.

Cool cool cool: You can now get my *good book* SOCIAL TV for just $15 thanks to the @upmississippi.bsky.social sale www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Soci...

Do you teach DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST? Consider adding JULIE DASH: INTERVIEWS to your syllabus. Request an exam copy here: www.upress.state.ms.us/reviewcopyre...