MDP was busy this past weekend with the Oxford Conference for the Book and our Graduate Assistant, Danielle St. Ours was there to record every second of it. Now she gets to edit 20 hours of footage. It’s what we like to call “training.”
Grisham Reads the Whiskey Speech
For years Soggy Sweat’s Whiskey Speech has been discussed as a particularly fine piece of southern oratory. Judge Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat was John Grisham’s law professor at Ole Miss and a former state legislator. Here Grisham remembers his professor at the Oxford Conference for the Book–this year dedicated to Barry Hannah.
Book 'em Danno!
Here’s an excerpt from a panel on Literary Oxford that author John Grisham led during the 2010 Oxford Conference for the Book. Grisham tells the story of a previous conference he attended with authors Barry Hannah and Stephen King.