Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Five top books about Mississippi published in the past year

At Country Living, Lyn Roberts, the general manager of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, tagged five top books about Mississippi published in the past year, including:
Michael Farris Smith looks to the not-too-distant-future in his novel Rivers (Simon & Schuster), about a future in which weather patterns have become more violent and hurricanes like Katrina batter the coast faster than the population can rebuild, causing the federal government to declare the coast a wasteland.
Read about another book on the list.

The Page 69 Test: Rivers.

Writers Read: Michael Farris Smith.

--Marshal Zeringue