{"id":85221,"date":"2019-01-23T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=85221"},"modified":"2019-01-24T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:05:57","slug":"two-um-professors-titles-best-southern-books-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/two-um-professors-titles-best-southern-books-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Two UM Professors Have Titles on Best Southern Books of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/two-um-professors-titles-best-southern-books-2018\/ucimg-624\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-85478\" src=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-624-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-624-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-624-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UCIMG-624.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013&nbsp;Two&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Mississippi<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>faculty members had books recognized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/entertainment\/books--literature\/best-southern-books-2018\/J7zZp25gT3KKEarPA6eGCN\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a> as among the best pieces of Southern literature published in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\">Kiese Laymon&#8217;s memoir &#8220;Heavy&#8221; and Chris Offutt&#8217;s historical novel &#8220;Country Dark&#8221; were among 11 titles selected as the best Southern books of 2018 in what AJC arts and books editor Suzanne Van Atten called &#8220;a particularly outstanding year for Southern books.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\">Laymon serves as the university&#8217;s Ottilie Schillig Professor in <a href=\"http:\/\/english.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English <\/a>and Creative Writing. He hails from Jackson, and his memoir &#8220;Heavy&#8221; captures his difficult upbringing as a poor, black and abused child growing up in Mississippi. &#8220;Heavy&#8221; also landed on The New York Times Book Review&#8217;s 100 Notable Books of 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\">Offutt&#8217;s &#8220;Country Dark&#8221; is a novel about a Korean War veteran returning home to east Kentucky and running moonshine to support his wife and five children. 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