Willie Morris of Yazoo City, Mississippi

The square in Oxford, Mississippi

Wanna smell the fragrance of the South? Read North Toward Home by Willie Morris published in 1967. If nothing else, read especially the first part about Yazoo City.

In a review by Alex Joyner, a writer and pastor in Charlottesville, VA, he wrote about Morris’ memoir “…this book captures a moment in time when the South and what it meant was changing…And it should remind us that we are always of a place and yet are never at, but always moving towards, home.” Does that reminds you a little of Faulkner.

Brings to mind my memoirs, South, Towards Home. Finally giving up my efforts to live away from the South. And back home to Arkansas I went.

Order Morris’ memoirs from Square Books, one of the South’s finest bookstores on the town square in Oxford, home of Ole Miss. You’ll have the privilege of patronizing one of America’s beloved businesses.

And if you get to Memphis with some time on your hands, make the hour-drive down to Oxford and visit Square Books. Oxford is a classic small town in good health. Y’all will love it.