Join us for a discussion with John T. Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers, about his new memoir House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home. Featuring a giveaway of House of Smoke while supplies last (courtesy of the Friendly City Books Community Connectin, a special project of the CREATE Foundation) Q&A and a book signing, you won’t want to miss it!

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 byNPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And 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.