TrueSouth Screening & Book Signing with John T. Edge 🎥

Name: TrueSouth Screening & Book Signing with John T. Edge 🎥
Start: 2025-10-29T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-29T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, Mississippi 39564

Schedule

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, Mississippi 39564 | Ocean Springs, MS

Join us at The Traveler at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art for an evening with author, journalist, and Emmy Award-winning host John T. Edge as he shares stories from the road and from his latest memoir, HOUSE OF SMOKE: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home. The event features a special screening of the Ocean Springs episode of TrueSouth (SEC Network, ESPN, Hulu), followed by a Q&A, book conversation, and signing with John T. Edge.
In this unflinching and moving memoir, HOUSE OF SMOKE, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away, as he tries and fails and tries again to rewrite the stories he inherited. Beginning in Georgia and ending in Mississippi, his search spans the Deep South and charts a very American story of the truth telling and soul searching it takes to love your people and your place.
This event is free and open to the community.
Books will be available for purchase through The Book Porter.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase from The Traveler Café. Eagle Point Oysters will be offering samples!
About the Author:
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.