In 20 years as an award-winning columnist for Memphis’ The Commercial Appeal, Geoff Calkins has chronicled the two most exciting and transformative decades in Memphis sports. After the Jump features Geoff’s wise and witty insights on the people and moments that have been part of this change, both within the world of sports and beyond.

After the Jump: Columns on the Best 20 Years in Memphis Sports

Calkins, Geoff

Sports & Outdoors

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Artists keep sketchbooks. Mine, more than four decades’ worth, are filled with visual shorthand. There are drawings and ideas for paintings, sculptures, installations – along with phone numbers, grocery lists, things to do, and of course, mindless doodles. I find critiques of my work, sometimes harsh, alongside welcome fragments of dialogue next to drafts and outlines for fiction. These hybrid sketchbooks/journals have recently, as if of their own volition, come down from a high shelf in my studio to a table within easy reach. From time to time, out of curiosity, I open one. The working drawings are viable, the rants at times amusing, but it's the vein of narrative that rushes up from the page like charged found objects that interests me most. When asked, I call what I do Hypothetical Realism. The places and things I paint are not real, but they could be. The same holds true for Short, Mean Fiction. None of what I have written really happened, but it could have. Like tales from the Old Testament, these stories are mean, rampant with sex, violence, and death. All are figments of an active, if not fertile, imagination and brevity may be their greatest charm. They are fictions through and through, and should a disclaimer be needed, consider it made. The drawings scattered throughout this volume are not illustrations, but live in the same place—the sketchbooks—where I first wrote the stories, forgot them, then found them again. To my mind, that’s what can be trusted. As with painting, I feel little pride of authorship and make no literary claims for Short, Mean Fiction. For what it’s worth, for better or worse, and to my utter surprise, there are many more where these came from. William Dunlap

Short Mean Fiction: Words and Pictures

Literature & Fiction

Dunlap, William

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Education of a Lifetime

The Education of a Lifetime is a compelling memoir by former Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat. Khayat writes about his childhood days in Moss Point, Mississippi, the state s segregationist policies that prevented his SEC championship baseball team from playing in the College World Series, and the sadness of experiencing his father s arrest and guilty plea. These seemingly disparate events worked to prepare him to battle the vestiges of racial strife that continued to haunt the university s culture as he accepted the honor of becoming the university s 15th chancellor. Khayat s story gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at how a university moved from mediocrity to excellence. We relive, along with Khayat, the courting of an eccentric donor, as well as private conversations with a sitting U.S. President, governors, coaches and celebrities. We also see how a man worked to make amends for past mistakes. The Education of a Lifetime is a funny, touching and insightful memoir. And it is proof that one man a man dedicated to respecting the dignity of every individual can make lasting change.

Robert Khayat

A stunning photography book that captures the true beauty of America's most beautiful college, Ole Miss.

Ole Miss: A Photographic Essay

Arts & Photography

Kevin Bain

Nathan Latil

Robert, Jordan

Photography & Video

Character references for a city filled with it and often absolutely full of it. A collection of essays about Memphis by Dan Conaway.

I'm a Memphian

Dan Conaway

a little-known history of both families and the home Faulkner loved and named Rowan Oak. n 1930, Will and Sallie Bryant deeded and financed the family home—The Bailey Place—in Oxford, Mississippi to William Faulkner. Sally Stone Trotter, Will and Sallie’s granddaughter, writes a little-known history of both families and the home Faulkner loved and named Rowan Oak. Referencing fifty, never-before-published letters from Faulkner to her grandparents and mother (dating from 1930 to 1947), combined with a genealogist’s encyclopedic knowledge of her family history, Trotter crafts a compelling biography of a place that changed our literary landscape.

Rowan Oak: A History of the William Faulkner Home

History

Trotter, Sally

Americas

America tells its stories through song. Consolation to the lovelorn, courage to the oppressed, warning to the naive, or a ticket to the Promised Land, a great song can deliver the wisdom of ages directly to our souls. WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS presents portraits of artists: fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, daughters and sons, grandparents and neighbors, who continue to lovingly stir the South's musical stew and feed American culture. You probably won't recognize their names or faces, for few have found fame. Most of them weren't easy to find. Tim Duffy shares these intimate photographs in hopes that you will look more closely at the unrecognized greatness that surrounds us all.

We Are The Music Makers! Preserving the Soul of America's Music

Timothy and Denise Duffy

A supplement to THE OLE MISS EXPERIENCE for transfer students.

The Ole Miss Experience: Transfer Student Experience Supplement

Education & Teaching

Banahan, Leslie

Studying & Workbooks

A Group Journey Out of Homelessness

Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness

Hope, Door of

Biographies & Memoirs

Slowly rising from the Mississippi River flood lands, one family’s blood-stained secret sets the stage for a compelling tale of corruption, love, bribery, murder, and international deception. After the mysterious death of his boss and mentor, Cliff Carver unknowingly embarks on a hunt for the truth, but soon finds himself involved in a cover-up dating back to the Civil War. Traversing a maze of Southern society, Carver encounters henchmen, secret agents, politely murderous politicians, and an extraordinarily beautiful, yet mysterious, woman. Weaving past and present together, Cornelius unveils a narrative wrought with tenderness, humor, and utter terror — and a conspiracy that could change the course of American history. Old Money, Old Secrets is a story of epic proportions, bringing to light the incredible capacity for human secrecy… and one man’s determination to reexamine all that we think we know.

Old Money, Old Secrets

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cornelius, Kyle

Mystery

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