The MS Book Festival 2024 program includes Jesmyn Ward and LeVar Burton

Fiction:

• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, “Chain Gang All Stars”
• Kaveh Akbar, “Martyr!”
• Allison Alsup, “Foreign Seed”
• Katya Apekina, “Mother Doll”
• Jeff Barry, “Go to Hell, Ole Miss”
• Chris Bohjalian, “The Princess of Las Vegas”
• Lee Boudreaux, editor of novels such as “Lessons in Chemistry” and “The Most Fun We Ever Had”
• Gabi Burton, “Drown me in dreams: hearts break. kingdoms shatter.”
• Eli Cranor, “Broiler”
• Elizabeth Crook, “The Madness Stone”
• Leif Enger, “I happily decline”
• Tom Franklin, “Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter”
• Alina Grabowski, “Women and children first”
• Juliet Grames, “The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia”
• Minrose Gwin, “Beautiful Dreamers”
• Shaun Hamill, “The Dissonance”
• Mary Annaïse Heglar, “Troubled Waters”
• Jenny Jackson, “Pineapple Street”
• Joseph Kanon, “Shanghai”
• Rachel Khong, “Real Americans”
• Claire Lombardo, “Always the same as always”
• Rachel Lyon, “Fruit of the Dead”
• Jenn Lyons, “The Sky on Fire”
• Lee Mandelo, “The forest is all black”
• Mesha Maren, “Shae”
• Alane Salierno Mason, Publisher and Vice President of WW Norton and Company
• Melissa Mogollon, “Oye”
• Julia Phillips, “Bear”
• Jamie Quatro, “Two-Step Devil”
• Ron Rash, “The Caretaker”
• Maurice Carlos Ruffin, “The American Daughters”
• OO Sangoyomi, “Masquerade Ball: Your Rise to Happiness, Paid in Blood”
• Ery Shin, “Spring on the Peninsula”
• J. Courtney Sullivan, “The Cliffs”
• Sheila Sundar, “Dwellings”
• Joseph Earl Thomas, “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer”
• Natasha Trethewey, “The House of Being (Why I Write)”
• MO Walsh, “The Big Door Prize”
• Jesmyn Ward, “Let us descend”
• Randy Wayne White, “A Deadly Eye: A Doc Ford Novel”
• Phillip B. Williams, “OUR”
• Gerry Wilson, “The Pinson Girl”
• Henry Wise, “Holy City”
• Snowden Wright, “The Queen City Detective Agency”
• Steve Yarbrough, “Stay Gone Days”
• Nicola Yoon, “One of Our Kind”

Lifestyle:

• Anne Byrn, “Baking in the American South”
• Margo Cooper, “Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews”
• John T. Edge, “The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South”
• John Caleb Grenn, literary critic
• Cree Myles, “All Ways Black”
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Bite by Bite: Food and Celebrations”
• Robert St. John, “Robert St. John’s Mississippi Mornings: Breakfasts, Brunches, and Thoughts in the Deep South”
• Anthony Thaxton, “Eudora”
• Traci Thomas, host of the podcast “The Stacks”
• Crystal Wilkinson, “In Praise of the Kitchen Spirits: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks”
• Diane Williams, “A Guide to the Museums of Mississippi”
• Jerid P. Woods, also known as Akili Nzuri, author of the blog “A Black Man Reading”

Non-fiction books:

• Jami Attenberg, “1000 Words”
• KB Brookins, “Pretty: A Memoir”
• Jonathan Corcoran, “No Son of Mine: A Memoir”
• Eric Jay Dolin, “Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Betrayal, and Survival on the Edge of the World”
• Todd Doughty, “Little Pieces of Hope: Lucky Things in a Difficult World”
• Jeff Duncan, “An Impossible Life: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom in a Fragile Existence”
• W. Ralph Eubanks, “A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape”
• Ellen Ann Fentress, “The Steps We Take: Memories of the Reckoning in the South”
• Dionne Ford, “Go Back and Get It: Memoirs of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing”
• XM Frascogna Jr., “The Saints of St. Mary’s”
• Marion Garrard Barnwell, “All the Things We Have Not Said: Two Memoirs”
• Richard Grant, “A Race to the Depths of Madness: Reports from Arizona”
• Grace Elizabeth Hale, “In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning”
• Paul Hendrickson, “Fighting in the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and the Life of an Airman.”
• JL Holloway, “Nothing to Lose: A Story of Poverty, Resilience and Gratitude”
• Jasmine L. Holmes, “Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Testimony of the Formerly Enslaved”
• Sebastian Junger, “In my time of dying: How I was confronted with the idea of ​​life after death”
• Erik Larson, “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Sorrow, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War”
• Beverly Lowry, “Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta”
• Priyanka Mattoo, “Bird’s Milk and Mosquito Bones”
• Tracie McMillan, “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Monetary Value of Racism”
• Margaret McMullan, “Where the Angels Lived: A Family’s Story of Exile, Loss and Return”
• Di Rushing, “The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi’s First Winery”
• Wesley Shoop, “The Natural Heritage of Mississippi: Photographs of Flora and Fauna”
• Hampton Sides, “The Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Last Voyage of Captain James Cook”
• Buz Teacher, Running Press Book Publisher
• Boyce Upholt, “The Great River: The Making and Destruction of the Mississippi”
• Kidada E. Williams, “I Saw Death Coming: A Story of Terror and Survival in the War on Reconstruction”

poetry:

• AH Jerriod Avant, “Muscadine”
• Adam Clay, “Circle Back”
• Beth Ann Fennelly, “Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs”
• Major Jackson, “Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002–2022”
• January Gill O’Neal, “Glitter Road”
• Catherine Pierce, “Dangerous Days”
• Leona Sevick, “The Bamboo Woman”
• Hannah V. Warren, “Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales”