Join us, Thursday, Sept. 22 at 6 pm at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS 38655) for a live performance and recording of the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour. FREE admission. Featuring nationally celebrated debut novelist Nathan Hill with Americana artist Alanna Mosley and gospel group My Girls & Son. Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, The Yalobushwhackers.
Radio: WUMS 92.1 FM
Online: http://www.myrebelradio.com/
Nathan Hill is the author of The Nix (Knopf) one of the most-buzzed about books of the year. It is the story of Samuel Andresen-Anderson, who at age 11 is abandoned by his mother and never hears from her again until 40 years later when she suddenly appears on the nightly news for having thrown rocks at an arch-conservative could-be presidential candidate. This wide-ranging, 620-page novel, flashes back to the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention while delving into issues of love and betrayal, politics and pop culture.
Square Books owner Richard Howorth says: “The Nix is clever, ambitious, funny, big-hearted, and brilliantly written, and the anticipation of its publication very much reminds me of a time in 1978, just before The World According to Garp was published.” The New York Times Book Review called the debut novel, “Hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart.”
Hill lives in Naples, Florida.
“The Nix” is set to become a TV series produced by JJ Abrams and starring Meryl Streep: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/meryl-streep-jj-abrams-team-926419
Read The New York Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/books/review/the-nix-nathan-hill.html?_r=0
Alanna Mosley is an Americana singer/songwriter from Carrolton, Miss. who most recently was a finalist in last month’s 2016 Jimmie Rodgers Talent Competition. Mosley performs at numerous clubs and festivals across the state. Her most recent release is the EP, Hold of Me.
My Girls and Son, is mom, Tricanna McGee, and her daughters, Cemiah and Creshonna and son, Sam. They are from Oxford and sing and play in area churches including their home church, East Providence Baptist Church. Tricanna McGee is a former vocalist with Oxford soul band, Wiley and the Checkmates. My Girls and Son have a single available for online download called, “Another Chance.”
