Lemuria Bookstore Blog

A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In researching, Mississippi’s 100 Greatest Football Players of All Time, we discovered some fascinating statistics. Consider this about our state: • 588 native-born Mississippians have played professional football • 726 professional players attended Mississippi institutions of higher learning. Here’s the breakdown: No. of NFL Players by College or [...]

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A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In preparing the coffee-table book, Mississippi’s 100 Greatest Football Players of All Time, we at Nautilus Publishing have gone to great lengths to create an accurate system of measurement. However, we are the first to admit that any attempts to rank football careers are subjective. Our system is [...]

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A Guest Blog by Author Mike Frascogna Legend has it that Bozo arrived on the Hinds campus sometime in the mid-40s. While there is no evidence to pinpoint the exact date of Bozo’s arrival, or birth, albeit whatever manner he, she or it, was created, the date of its origin still remains a mystery. There [...]

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A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In the fall of 1970, I sat in my fourth-grade Sunday school class. Our teacher, Mrs. Hemphill, posed a question to the class of three girls and three boys. “Who is your hero?” she asked. The girls in the class mentioned Bobbie Gentry and Jackie Kennedy and Nancy [...]

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Richard Dortch, an avid reader of Tony Horwitz, contributes this review of his latest book, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. The Civil War didn’t start with the firing on Fort Sumter, said the great African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It started with John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. [...]

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Liz Sullivan is our Random House/Double Day rep, and we were lucky enough to have her join us for Chuck’s Damned Night. Liz also writes a blog about her Adventures in Book Land with another friend who also works in the publishing industry. I enjoy reading their unique perspectives, and Gianna and Liz are also [...]

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Some years ago I met Tom in the fiction room and eventually we discovered that we both loved Murakami. We have had many conversations about books we love, but none so enthusiastic as the ones on Murakami. In all the anticipation for 1Q84, I asked Tom if he would like to join our blog series [...]

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At the end of the interview, Chuck Palahniuk asked if we’d mind if he plugged something he cares a lot about–animal rescue. All over the country animal shelters have had  to deal with more and more animals being abandoned due to financial hardship. Lemurians have a long history of working with animal shelters in the [...]

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Join us at Hal & Mal’s tonight. Get the details & times here.

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Craig Noone, you shared your drive and your mission for Jackson. Your spirit touched us all, young and old, with a relentless drive. Your overwhelming creativity inspired us to put out more effort. With great loss and deep sadness, I hope your spirit continues to drive Jackson onward as we pick up your banner for [...]

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