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W. Ralph Eubanks is author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, which will be released March 16, 2021 by Timber Press/Workman Publishing. He is also the author of Ever is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippis Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley named Ever is a Long Time as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. Novelist Richard Ford said The House at the End of the Road "enacts the liberating magic of literature: it finds its truth in between conventional wisdom and sociological presumption, in between lies and faulty history." Eubanks has contributed ...more

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	Ever Is A Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir 3.99 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Grave (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 67) by Katherine Anne Porter, W. Ralph Eubanks (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.61 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process by Gesa E. Kirsch (Editor), Lucille M. Schultz (Foreword), Liz Rohan (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance by Sandra Beasley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John T. Edge (Foreword), W. Ralph Eubanks (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My next book, A Place Like Mississippi, will be released March 16, 2021 by Timber Press, a division of Workman publishing. Here is the publisher's description and a link to the publisher's page about the book:

A palpable connection to the landscapes of Mississippi can be felt in the work of the state’s many lauded writers. This connection to the land runs deep—across onerous lines of class, gender, Read more of this blog post »

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