In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained
national prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer,
novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book
reveals, he was also a master essayist whose gift was in crafting
short compositions. Shifting Interludes, an anthology that spans
his career of forty years, includes pieces he wrote for the Daily
Texan, Texas Observer, the Washington Star, Vanity Fair, Southern
Living, and other publications. These diverse works reflect the
scope of Morris's wide-ranging interests. The collection comprises
biographical profiles, newspaper editorials and columns, political
analyses, travel narratives, sports commentaries, book reviews, and
his thoughts--both critical and affectionate-about his beloved home
state of Mississippi. Two essays are previously unpublished--""A
Long-ago Rendezvous with Alger Hiss"" and ""The Day I Followed the
Mayor around Town."" One essay, ""Mississippi Rebel on a Texas
Campus,"" is the first article he wrote for a national publication.
Morris's subjects reflect his autobiography, his poignant feelings,
and his courtly manners. He expresses his outrage as he decries
Southern racism in ""Despair in Mississippi,"" his melancholy as he
recounts a visit to his hometown Yazoo City in ""The Rain Fell
Noiselessly,"" his grace as he salutes a college football team and
its fallen comrade in ""In the Spirit of the Game,"" his humor as
he admits to a bout of middle-age infatuation in ""Mitch and the
Infield Fly Rule,"" and his pensiveness as he remembers his
much-loved grandmother Mamie in ""Weep No More, My Lady."" Willie
Morris is one of Mississippi's most acclaimed writers and a former
editor of Harper's. University Press of Mississippi reissued two of
his works, North Toward Home and The Courting of Marcus Dupree, and
most recently published My Mississippi, on which he collaborated
with his son, the photographer David Rae Morris. Jack Bales, the
reference and humanities librarian at Mary Washington College and a
friend of Morris's, compiled and edited Conversations with Willie
Morris (also published by the University Press of Mississippi).
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