Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Both John and Joe have worked a lot with Mike so I put their comments together. John says: Mike is a real bookstore hound. I’m sure he checks out the bookstores wherever his travels take him. He studies staff, inventory quality, in- store marketing, customer service while formulating judgment on the overall store. Needless to [...]

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The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie (Crown, October 19, 2010) “When Hood refused to drop his investigation, Scruggs grew apoplectic. In a move later characterized by his friends as an ‘afternoon decision’ driven by a large dose of his painkilling medication, Scruggs offered to pay $500,000 to Steve Patterson and Tim [...]

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After a series of extensive interviews in their homes, Curtis Wilkie met with Dickie Scruggs in the Lafayette County jail in Oxford before he appeared before the grand jury in 2009. Scruggs asked Wilkie, “‘When all this is over, are you going to be able to tell me how I got mixed up with these [...]

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On January 22, 1989 I learned one of those important “how to be a grown-up” lessons. It was the night of Super Bowl XXIII and I was 13-years-old. I had picked the Bengals because, as a thirteen-year-old, I thought the red tiger uniforms were cool. They also had a quarterback named Boomer and another guy [...]

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I had always intended “to get to” Natasha Trethewey’s poetry, but when I saw that she had a new book coming out, that she was coming to Lemuria, and that she had been featured in Mississippians, there was no time to waste. To begin, I explored some of her poetry and ended up finding a [...]

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On April 12, 1973, at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, (my first jazz fest), I heard and saw 300 pounds of heavenly joy. Howlin’ Wolf, though ailing, worked his magic which still lives for me 37 years later. His gripping voice, primal and nasty, rocked my house. Wolf’s passion transferred his presence into my world [...]

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An ultimate compliment for Lemuria was to be Eudora Welty’s hometown bookstore. Her graceful light shone on us as she shared her heart. Through her goodness and belief in our work, she gave herself in our support. Eudora’s sharing of her love for books made Lemuria better. Her wisdom guided our evolution, enabling us to [...]

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The King of the Blues The Father of Country Music The King of Rock & Roll The Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment The Most Beloved Actor of our Time The Founder of MTV The Greatest Novelist of the 20th Century All from Mississippi? The state with the lowest income in the country? The state that [...]

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I am a big follower of MPB’s show “Fresh Air,” as I have mentioned before in a previous blog, so I have once again been awarded a gift of hearing a renowned author, and in this case, a Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry (2007), read from her latest work. I am speaking of the Emory [...]

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I don’t know about y’all but my friends and I are still on cloud 9 after the Saints not only went to the Super Bowl but won it on Sunday!!  We were so excited that we had a second line parade down Brecon Drive! At Christmas time we had a lot of you come in [...]

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