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Mary Heath

@htaehyram.bsky.social
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Mostly posting about my dog & poetry | Associate Editor, acquiring 📚 in folklore, literary studies, & Literary Conversations at the University Press of MS | Opinions mine. | she/her | 📍JXN, MS

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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
AFS is great because I get to talk to some of the coolest people ever & I get to use Bluesky temporarily Come see me in the ballroom to add to your #tbr pile @upmississippi.bsky.social
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Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D. @jervette.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
THIS. IS. IT. My last one as CLA President — so Let’s Go!! You don’t want to miss “SOUL FOOD, SOUL WORK, SOUL LEGACIES: FOOD, FAMILY, AND FAITH AS FOUNDATION,” Kiese Laymon, or Jackson State University — April 8-11, 2026. See you in the ‘Sip! #CLA26Jackson #CLA26 #CLAscholars
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Emily Snyder Bandy @ebandy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🪄 POTTER STINKS: GENDER AND SPECIES IN J. K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER SERIES by Keridiana Chez, acquired by the brilliant @htaehyram.bsky.social for @upmississippi.bsky.social, excerpted in Lit Hub today ✨💚
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"This book is a collision of wit and wisdom. Djeha may be a trickster, but through his antics, we learn much about the complexity and richness of the human experience." Thed Bostic #ReadUP www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Djeh...
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Djeha, the North African Trickster
Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster ...
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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The Center for Fiction Presents: Who Was William Faulkner? | The Center for Fiction
William Faulkner continues to engage and provoke readers and writers across the international landscape. In 2025 The Center for Fiction, in partnership with the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, ...
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New 2025 plan: I'm going to stop paying attention to the news and watch old movies and read books and travel to a few places and publish a bunch of books and make some cocktails in between and when it's over, you all can update me on what I missed.
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Emily Snyder Bandy @ebandy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Soothing myself by digging through DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS. So many little gems in this book.
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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We’re so excited to be at #MLA2025! Be sure to use code MLA2025 at checkout on our website to receive a 30% discount on any of our Literature and related titles. www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
All set up and ready to rep @upmississippi.bsky.social tomorrow at #MLA25
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I will be at #MLA25 in NOLA, so come swing by the @upmississippi.bsky.social booth 115B in the exhibit hall this Friday and Saturday for $10 books, some fun freebies, and scintillating publishing chats!📚✨
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Emily Snyder Bandy @ebandy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Came back to the office to a notification that copies 📚 of Carrie Helms Tippen's UNPALATABLE 👅 STORIES OF PAIN 😖 AND PLEASURE ☺️ IN SOUTHERN COOKBOOKS have hit the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse 🚚📦 So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Starting the new year off with a literal bang
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Loved seeing this piece in @thespectator1828.bsky.social from Robin Ashenden! If you have a writer you'd love to see added to @upmississippi.bsky.social's Literary Conversations series, DM me--I would be so happy to receive your proposal! www.spectator.co.uk/article/life...
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Life lessons, from Orwell to Didion
A series of books that teaches us not only how to write but also how to live and how to think properly about life.
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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Need a thought-provoking listen for the new year? PROVERB MASTERS: SHAPING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Raymond Summerville is an examination of the lasting impact of proverbial language on the long civil rights movement: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Jason Alexander @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Gisele Pelicot is an incredible woman and a hero for her nerve in bringing all those rapists to justice and for knowing the shame does not lie worth her — bravely declining anonymity was incredible.
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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Listen to a balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America in the audiobook for GUNLORE: FIREARMS, FOLKWAYS, AND COMMUNITIES, edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason! #ReadUP #Audiobooks tinyurl.com/yejjbwm8
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tennessippi @tennessippi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A great piece from Jessica B. Harris in 2021 about her trips to Mississippi. I deeply admire her and her work. gardenandgun.com/articles/rid...
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Riding Shotgun into the Heart of Mississippi
Jessica B. Harris on her journeys through the Magnolia State
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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We are deeply saddened to hear the news of Nikki Giovanni's passing. Giovanni was an activist, educator, and one of the most well-known American poets. “We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.” –Nikki Giovanni
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Read an exclusive excerpt from THE MAKING OF SYLVIA PLATH on Lithub! lithub.com/how-a-young-...
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How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping
For two weeks in July 1944, Sylvia Plath attended Camp Helen Storrow at Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts, averaging a letter a day to her mother, reporting on her swimming and hiking and her enjoyment …
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I am spending all of my paycheck on d&d materials help pls
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Justine O-S 🪞 @justineodashs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
it's like happy hour, but for our book. TODAY is the last day of the @upressmississippi holiday sale--snag yourself a preorder for $12.50 (!!!), and DM me details to get your free sticker pack. 📖 www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-A...
An American girl doll (Molly) sitting very close to a negroni. A pink bubble with white text above her head says “final day for half-off preorders”
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Justine O-S 🪞 @justineodashs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
shabbat shalom I’m going to sleep for a dozen hours!
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Mary Heath @htaehyram.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
the other site has officially been dubbed the Bad Place, so I guess it’s time to try out the Good Place
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