Hours: 12-6 pm Weekdays & 10-4 Saturday

Phone: (662) 570-4247

Location: 423 Main Street, Columbus, MS

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for attending Possumtown Book Fest!

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Mississippi Authors

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A Night with John T. Edge

Join us for a moderator-led 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 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 by NPR 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.

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Our Own Publications

Our newest book!

SAVOR: Poems for the Tongue

Edited by Brennan Breeland & Stan Galloway

We’re so excited to share with you our newest book from Friendly City Books! SAVOR: Poems for the Tongue is our much anticipated anthology of food poetry.

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