We always have a good, solid Thacker Mountain Radio Hour with our friends at Sarahfest from the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at Ole Miss. Over recent years we’ve done this show at Mr. Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, outdoors under the stars, in front of his stable on his paddock, channeling the ghosts…
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This week’s featured book, Stories From 125 Years of Ole Miss Football (Nautilus), takes the reader back to a time before party decks, charging stations and “gameday enhancements.” The stories in the book, edited by bestselling author Neil White, cover 1893-2017 and are for anyone who enjoys a good sports story along with a little…
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Thacker will fire up its 22nd year on-the-air tonight at 6 pm at Off Square Books and my buddy Ron “Ronzo” Shapiro won’t be there. We lost Ronzo over the summer after 75 loving-life years. He supported our show but he loved all art, showing up at most any opening, reading, or concert, wearing a…
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In the past year Julian Rankin has 1) moved to Ocean Springs, MS, 2) been named Executive Director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, 3) taken a six-day canoe trip to Anderson’s favorite barrier island, Horn Island, and 4) won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for ‘Best Non-Fiction Book of the…
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by Jim Dees – This Saturday, onstage, in front of a roomful of sweaty but cheerful book folk – and probably several dozen children – I’ll be obliged to talk sex with Candace Bushnell (pictured) the woman who literally wrote the book on the subject. Bushnell is the author of Sex and the City, the…
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Author Paige Williams grew up in Tupelo and recently told an interviewer her interest in reading and writing was sparked in that All-American City by the “sweet smell of the Lee County Library.” Williams will return to her hometown this Saturday, August 3 at 7:30 pm at Tupelo’s Link Centre as the literary guest on…
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The word “legend” gets tossed around rather loosely (ditto, “iconic”) but if ever those words apply it would be to Dorothy Moore, a Mississippi rhythm and blues master of 50 years and counting. This Saturday in Clinton, MS, you can see -and hear- for yourself. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will play host to Moore…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour has announced its 2019 summer schedule and the slate includes a series of live performances across Mississippi as well as archival Saturday broadcasts. At the same time, Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) will introduce its re-shuffled Saturday line-up this Saturday, June 1. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour’s summer season of live…
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This Saturday, May 11 – Pulitzer prize-winning author Rick Bragg reads from his evocative southern food memoir, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table on The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting http://www.mpbonline.org/ and at 9 pm on Alabama Public Radio https://www.apr.org/. Musical guests include…
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Bestselling author Rick Bragg will appear in Mobile, AL on Saturday, May 4 at 7 pm as part of The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, an award-winning, Mississippi-based music and literature show. Bragg’s latest book, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table, has just been released in paperback. The “food memoir”…
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