I am so happy Oxford is itself. By the time I came up to visit Square Books and Rowan Oak at the age of 16 (nearly 22 years ago), I knew that Mississippi was The Fertile Soil for some of the finest writing the world has seen. I didn’t fully realize, as well as many native Mississippians, that fertile soil belongs to us all. We take it for granted, lazy strolls past Faulkner's Grave and summer afternoon drives with blues music by Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson to see Eudora’s resting place. B.B. King, Jim Henson, well, the list goes on and on.
That’s why I welcome Beautiful Creatures authors, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl to our town, to our back yard. They will be signing at Square Books, Jr. today at 4 o’clock, so come on out and meet them. We don’t have to read about it in Southern Living – we are southern living! So grab a spoon, or a pen, or a paintbrush, or a guitar, and dig deep!
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