FOR SALE: McCormick Book Inn, independent bookstore. Continuous family management since 1965 in original Greenville MS location. Hometown to more than 30 literary figures including Will Percy, Shelby Foote, Ellen Douglas, Hodding Carter Jr., Walker Percy.

Moderate income possible for energetic new owner(s). Unlimited potential for intangible rewards such as sense of place and unique experiences with customers and authors from down the street or around the world.

Property includes land, store building, storage, authentic book smell, legendary dust, multi-generational corner cobwebs, Buster the store cat. Negotiable items: custom built wooden fixtures, basic regional inventory, active website.

Contact Kretschmar Realty, Inc. at (662) 378-3632.

Thank you for 46 years...

DELTALOGY 

Deltalogy? Yes, and as far as we know,  we invented the term, deltalogy (some wordsmiths want to spell it deltaology but it's our word and we can spell it the way we say it).

We needed a catch-all word to describe the growing category of nonfiction and fiction books about the Mississippi Delta or by Deltans.
 

PHOTO: BECKY WATTS

The Delta is a place; a melting pot of people; a mythology and a reality. And we need a word for it all: deltalogy.