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Joshua Clark & Judy Long for The Most Powerful Word

Why has Mississippi produced more acclaimed literature than any other region in history? Join editors Joshua Clark and Judy Long for The Most Powerful Word, a symphony of narratives that captures Mississippi's influence on world literature - showing how this complex and contradictory land has shaped the soul of storytelling like no other region its size in human history. Purchase a signed copy here: https://squarebooks.com/book/97819494... About the book For The Most Powerful Word, editors Joshua Clark and Judy Long orchestrated never-before-published interviews with many of Mississippi's most acclaimed authors - some living, many long gone - in a conversation revealing the secrets to becoming a great writer and digging into the roots of Mississippi's singular literary DNA - how it formed and why it still matters. Their voices move from one theme to the next - from history to geography to storytelling to booze to race - touching on eras marked by the sorrow of segregation and the upheaval of integration. Woven throughout this tapestry are lesser-known excerpts from the state's literature, archival material, historical account, and revealing statistics. Mississippi's literary heritage is more relevant today - with our continued racial reckoning - than ever. Indeed, The Most Powerful Word is a journey to understand not only how great writing is born, but how art, and so civilization, can evolve. What is it about this "little postage stamp of native soil" that has so defined the written word? About the authors Joshua Clark has been a bull rider, mountain climber, cannibal, gold miner, bear and alligator hunter, blueberry farm manager, hardcore punk concert producer, bartender, filmmaker. He is the author of Heart Like Water, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, and Leopard, a semi-finalist for the Oscars screenplay fellowship. Clark received an Economics degree from Yale University and has served as a correspondent for National Public Radio. His books have been translated into twelve languages. Judy Long is an editor and writer and the owner of the Byhalia Agency. She has more than three decades of experience in bookselling and publishing. She long managed the legendary Old Black Dog Bookstore in Athens, Georgia, and was a founder and editor-in-chief of Hill Street Press, an independent literary publisher. She served on the Georgia Center for the Book Advisory Board and currently serves on the Board of the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Letters in the state of Georgia and on the Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Awards Committee. Her writing has appeared in Flagpole Magazine, The Georgia Review, and Oxford American. She is the editor of numerous anthologies, including Literary New Orleans.