Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he becam...
Once my brother as a boy had been shown a book of Wyeth’s work by a family friend he had studied everything he could about the man and his art. Wyeth was as much a phantom presence around our childhood home as our parents were. My brother had written a letter to Wyeth—one he’d been in a way compo...