We're kicking off 2023 with the wonderful Ellen Rodgers Daniels - Executive Director of the Mississippi Book Festival, Lemurian elder, photographer, and child of Rolling Fork.  This episode is full of good stuff. The magic of books. Ellen's serendipitous path to leading the MS Book Fest. The realness of John Evans and Lemuria. Meeting your heroes as a job. Loving on libraries. Children's authors doing the absolute most. Vibes and civil discourse. Mississippi most definitely has somethin' goin' on. Location: Ellen's mystical black home library. Jackson, Mississippi. Mississippi Book Festival - August 19, 2023 Ellen's Photography Due South Co-op Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore: On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic by Jesmyn Ward Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams Imani Perry W. Ralph Eubanks Aimee Nezhukumatathil Kiese Laymon Mary Miller James Kirchick Eddie Glaude Morgan Jerkins Ryan Dennis Dr. Willie Wright Alice Walker Fischer Galleries Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter's by John Steptoe Anne Fisher Wirth My Antonia by Willa Cather Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Beloved by Toni Morrison Cane by Jean Toomer Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Deacon King Kong & The Good Lord Bird by James McBride Angie Thomas Beth Ann Fennelly Where the Roots Reach for Water by Jeffery Smith A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Dav Pilkey Robert Luckett Reverend H.D. Dennis and Margaret's Grocery Jericho Brown Jackson Libraries in Disrepair Long Overdue, the Bookmobile Is Back  

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