Join us on October 2 for a special evening celebrating John T. Edge’s new memoir House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home. We will be giving away copies of the book while supplies last courtesy of the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.

This event is free and open to the public. Our thanks to the Gordy Honors College at MUW for hosting this event as part of the Honors Forum series.

Preorder the book at Bookshop.org.

John T. Edge writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. He serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.