The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

The Caribbean Novel since 1945: Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State

City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Conversations with William Maxwell

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

D. W. Griffith: Interviews

A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States

Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne

Faulkner and Formalism: Returns of the Text

Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture

The Garden District of New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina: The Mississippi Story

James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner

The Legs Murder Scandal

Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass

The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews

Mississippi Weather and Climate

Mississippi: The Closed Society

Mississippi's American Indians

The Night Travellers

The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly

Personal Souths Interviews from the Southern Quarterly

Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures

Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943

Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

Samuel Fuller: Interviews

Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry

This Crooked Way

Time in Television: Narrative Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming

Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities

Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen: Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts

We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire

Wilder Ways

Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

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Philip Nel remembers Maurice Sendak

UPM author Phil Nel has a thoughtful and touching tribute to Maurice Sendak on his blog The Most Wild Thing of All: Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012. Nel is is the author of the forthcoming Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature. Johnson and Krauss influenced and intersected with Sendak throughout their careers

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