Larry Brown spent 10 years living as a city boy in Memphis, but he always longed to return home to Mississippi. This evocative new collection of essays shows he is a countryman at heart, and few writers surpass his ability to see the scenes of ordinary, daily life through a special lens that heightens their meaning. 
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A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1896-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively, Snappy Young Woman Can Say on a Variety of Topics.  Edited by Anne Razey Gowdy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Ixvii + 451 pages. $42.00. 
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Pictures Tell the Story: Ernest C. Withers, Reflections in History.  Edited by Ernest C. Withers.  Essays by Brooks Johnson, F. Jack Hurley, and Daniel J. Wolff. Norfolk, Virginia: Chrysler Musuem of Art, 2000. 192 pages, 138 black and white photographs. $65.00
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Local Heroes Changing America.  Edited by Tom Rankin and the Indivisible Project Staff.  Foreword by Ray Suarez.  Numerous color and black and white photographs.  New York: Lyndhurst Books, in association with W.W. Norton and Company, 2000. 292 pages. $29.95. 
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