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After a long siege of work, I'm finally back; I'll I've had time to do lately was add a couple of new purchases of my own. But I just put in three new books on the Faulkner library, and saw how far you've moved it along. Thanks! Am I right that from here out there's just Trollope-to-Z and then his own books?

I need to move forward getting the inventory of books here in Oxford.

What else is new?

posted by thf4 at 3:05 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

did you get an email from me about the WmF library?

posted by thf4 at 9:56 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

arg! it lost part of my comment. You asked about the fictional libraries, and I pointed you to this guy, who claims a library over over 9700, one of the ten biggest on LibraryThing, but actually owns 1500 books (according to his tagging scheme, which identifies 1500 as "owned." I'm not sure what the rest are).

posted by thf4 at 3:33 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2007

You wrote:

>There was one book of yours that you recently added that I was looking at last night that nearly had me foaming at the mouth.<

Which one? I'm curious.

and you wrote:

posted by thf4 at 3:29 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2007

I also noted your comment about how you own few books because of fear of moving. I've only moved a very few times, and would really, really hate the thought of packing up the books (and comparable collections of records and cds and even 78s) and moving again. Not sure it's a reason not to have books and records, but it's a reason to fear moving.

posted by thf4 at 11:48 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

I just noticed that one of your passions is dairy farming. That's a curve ball! Makes me think of all the times I wished for access to unpasturized cream for cooking projects.

posted by thf4 at 11:42 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

I think this would count as art, thanks to S.H. Kress. That's the only one that really stuck in my mind, although there's other stuff of interest. I was also somewhat interested in the radio stations playing 24/7 beach music; that sort of soul is a major thing in my part of the world (Memphis, Stax, and similar soul music) but barely visible on things like local radio. All on a very brief exposure to Columbia.

Meanwhile, I'm still plugging away on getting my library into LibraryThing.

posted by thf4 at 11:40 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

I've spent a small amount of time in Columbia-- long enough to stand in front of the Botticelli nativity in the art museum and to have some barbecue at Piggie Park, a very strange place. I didn't notice a bookstore of any note, and think I would have. In any event, I'm not sure there are many bookstores like Square Books anywhere (there are a few), and the website may not fully tell the story of why it's special.

posted by thf4 at 2:08 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2007

The literary community here is not continuous back to Faulkner. It's the result of several things-- most important the presence of a great bookstore (Square Books), and efforts by a university professor to cultivate a writing program, first by bringing in Willie Morris and then Barry Hannah, by encouraging visits from some major writers, and by getting money from John Grisham (who lived here before moving to Virginia) to fund a writer-in-residence and visiting writers. There came to be more and more writers here, some not so directly connected to the university.

posted by thf4 at 3:47 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2007

The Southern Foodways Alliance was founded by the food writer John T. Edge here at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. You might find John T.'s writing interesting-- he's all about the cultural context of the food he's writing about. You might particularly look at A Gracious Plenty, which is a collection of recipes from a century or so of local southern cookbooks, along with related writing and memories relating to southern food, and Southern Belly, a tour guide to Southern food.

more later...

posted by thf4 at 12:37 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2007

The social intertwinings are the result of small communities. I was startled, though, by Woodward saying he had come here (to Oxford) to meet Stone-- he could only have been aware of Stone by word of mouth, by some sort of grapevine identifying who would be interesting. When my father was practicing with Stone, those sorts of passers-by were commonplace, although totally explainable by the Faulkner connection, which was well known in Faulkner circles by the late fifties.

There's still some of that small community thing going on here, with Oxford the hub of one (more or less) involving Southern fiction, and, more so because of the Southern Foodways Alliance, southern food.

posted by thf4 at 12:07 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007

I'm not surprised about the way human nature sent your thesis off in unexpected and interesting directions. One of the challenges of thinking about that or other eras so radically different is to start by realizing that while the circumstances where radically different, the huge range of human responses may not have been.

posted by thf4 at 10:56 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

I was impressed with and probably intimidated by Blassingame. I have somewhat more of an impression of Genovese, who was in some way more approachable.

There was a symposium here each year (still ongoing) about Southern history. My biggest impression was the year they did reconstruction, joining some grad students in taking a group out to a rural plate lunch place. By shear luck, I got to spend a lot of time with C. Van Woodward; I started out touring one of his former graduate students (Fredrickson) around Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home, at the time Woodward showed up. Woodward wanted to flee the reception for a drink, and, being the local, I became the tour guide. It turned out that in the thirties, Woodward had come to Oxford to meet the guy who was my father's mentor (Phil Stone), partly because of the man's connection to Wm. Faulkner.

Sorry about the southern culture namechecking. For an explanation of the Faulkner/Phil Stone connection, look here, a brief history of the law firm where I work.

posted by thf4 at 10:54 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

btw, I met Blassingame and Eugene Genovese as an undergraduate here. I've a signed copy of Roll Jordan Roll.

posted by thf4 at 12:44 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

I'm a reader, not a collector, although with writers with a local connection or who have a relation to the bookstore I buy many of my books, I have a lot of signed copies.

I've read a very high percentage of my library. Where Mississippi, issues involving race, and music or law intersect, it hits writing and research interests for me.

The bookseller here says I'm a subject binge reader-- I get interested in something and want everything. I'll seriously scour used bookstores, too, particularly involving the subjects I'm actively researching. I get them here in Oxford at Square Books, a fair number in Jackson, MS at Choctaw Books, and at used book stores in New Orleans. At one time I'd scour used bookstores around the Strand in NYC, although I haven't been there in a while.

I went to college in the mid-70s, if that helps dating the collection and me.

What was your thesis?

posted by thf4 at 12:43 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

Somehow, your noticing my library has got me adding to it again-- I've added more books in the last 2 weeks than in the last 18 months. So, thanks. I've put almost 200 books in and hope to keep going, although after I finish the room I'm working in now it will be slower going.

posted by thf4 at 11:34 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2007

I've got about half of my library in, and can't seem to get time to finish the process. The cookbooks and music books are in, and the fiction and southern history about half done. A lot of the books my wife owned when we married are not yet in.

The Edna Lewis books are great, with a lot of very sound cooking advice (and the point of view of someone whose cooking and eating are integrated into their life and environment in a profound way. She was early to that idea). There is a fresh-pickle with chervil I make every spring in one of her books.

posted by thf4 at 11:39 am (EST) on Aug 16, 2007

I didn't know about "interesting libraries" lists till I got the comment I'd been added to yours.....

posted by thf4 at 10:24 am (EST) on Aug 13, 2007

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