Ellen chats with good friend and Mississippi Book Festival co-hort, Brenna Weaver about all things related to "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion."

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen chats with JXN Book Club founders Chris Kelly & Kimar Cain about all things book club, their current reads, future reads, and favorite books of all time! Then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! 

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Today, Ellen chats with avid book lover, and owner of Mississippi Mom Reads, Tatia Long Kiser, and Mississippi Book Festival's Community Engagement Director, Tonja Murphy about audio books, current reads, and more! Then it's Book Drop new releases & Ellen's Book Nook Pick of the Week!

Book Mentions:

You Belong to Me by Mary Higgins Clark

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Kin by Tayari Jones

The Sugar Jar by Yasmine Cheyenne

Whistler by Ann Patchett

Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

The Irish Goodbye by Beth Ann Fennelly

Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Strangers by Belle Burden

In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

Vera Wong books by Jesse Q. Sutanto

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh narrated by Jeremy Irons

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood narrated by Claire Danes

Wuthering Heights by Emilly Bronte narrated by Joanne Froggatt

The Murder at Gull’s Nest by Jess Kidd narrated by Siobhan McSweeney

The Foursome by Christine Baker Kline

My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams

The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson

The Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

Breakout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, and more

Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays by Amena Brown

Cooking from Scratch: A Careful Selection of Useful Recipes by Toya Boudy

Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Thrilling Tales of Modern Men: Stories by Danny McBride

The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus

Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer

Contrapposto by Dave Eggers

Children of the Wild by Kevin Powers

Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America by Lauren Hough

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen chats with Dr. Stacy Creel, Associate Professor in the School of Library & Information Science at The University of Southern Mississippi, to chat about her Adult Genres Literature course, "Dirty Books: Romance & Erotica in Libraries," and more, then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! 

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen chats with owner of Dixon Books in Natchez, Jennifer Boone, about the creation of the bookstore and more, then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! 

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen, Tonja, & Tatia, will discuss their current reads for May, we'll get "Off the Shelf" with MS Mom Reads, Tatia Long Kiser, and more. Then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week!

Book Mentions:

The Foursome by Christine Baker Kline

Medical Missionary: My Journey Through Global Health and Higher Education by Dan Jones

Waterfront Living by Erin Austen Abbott

On Witness and Respair by Jesmyn Ward

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino

Dolly all the Time by Annabel Monaghan

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver

A Season for Fishin’ by Pamela Courtney

J versus K by Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now by Jason Reynolds

Kin: A Novel by Tayari Jones

Go Gentle by Maria Semple

Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

We Burn Daylight by Brett Anthony Johnson

Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnson

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

Luna, Phoenix, Queen by Julia Oringer

Score by Kennedy Ryan

Glyph: A Novel by Ali Smith

Canon: A Novel by Paige Lewis

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen chats with former state Poet Laureate, Catherine Pierce, about her new essay collection about tornadoes, early motherhood and more, plus they also discuss her Summer of Attention project. Then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! 

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen, Tonja, & Tatia, will discuss their current reads, we'll get "Off the Shelf" with MS Mom Reads, Tatia Long Kiser, and more. Then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! 

Book Mentions:

Wild Robot by Peter Brown

I’m So Glad You’re Here by Mychal Threets

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Phases: A Memoir by Brandy

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Arsenio by Arsenio Hall

Famesick by Lena Dunham

Strangers by Belle Burden

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Night Watch by Jane Ann Philips

Small Town Girls by Jane Ann Phillips

Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell

A New Way to Love Your Neighbor: Be Curious, Free, and Brave by Jada Edwards

Country People by Daniel Mason

North Woods by Daniel Mason

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen chats with author Mike O'Brien about his latest release, “The Tougaloo Nine," his previous release "We Shall Not Be Moved” about the Woolworth sit-in, in addition to his work as an author, and more, and then Ellen sits down with MS Film Society's Executive Director, Ryan Parker about the free screening of "The Librarians," happening April 14th at the Capri Theatre in Jackson. Then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! 

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Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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Ellen chats with Jackson based Lemuria Bookstore owner John Evans, about his legacy, love of books, and more, as he celebrates his 50th anniversary as a premier literary destination.Then it's Ellen's Book Drop & Book Nook Pick of the Week! For more information on Lemuria & the 50th Anniversary Event, visit: https://www.lemuriabooks.com/50BIRTHDAY and join the conversation, email: [email protected]. 

Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.

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