Patsy Cline was one of the first women in country music to have a crossover hit. She was among the first to sing in Carnegie Hall. She was the very first to headline her own show in Las Vegas. And she was the one who knocked down the barriers that had held back women...
Buy on Amazon Buy on Barnes & Noble By Candy Justice and Bryan Cottingham World vs. Bob Chisholm Non-Fiction | Biography When 28-year-old Bob Chisholm relocated his wife, Carol, and daughter, Candy, to Winona, Mississippi (population 4382) in 1958, to start up the...
Did you know the best art forger in America lives in small-town Mississippi? About 10 years ago, a documentary about Landis was nominated for an Academy Award. It didn’t win, but it certainly raised awareness of the man who for 30 years was able to convince more than...
100 Year History of Memphis Music Originally published as “Goin’ Back to Memphis,” this book was a finalist for the prestigious Gleason Award, previously given out annually by Rolling Stone magazine, BMI, and New York University. The stories in Memphis Going Down are...
Long before COVID killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, yellow fever was THE disease to be feared, not just because no one at the time knew what caused it, but because of the terrible ways in which it killed. Sartoris Literary is pleased to reprint James L....
Mojo Rising: Masters of the Art and Mojo Rising: Contemporary Writers, a two-volume set of short stories written by the South’s greatest writers, were launched at William Faulkner’s home of Rowan Oak in Oxford Mississippi. Standing on the front steps of Faulkner’s...
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