"To me, I feel like being Southern means still having a foot in some sort of agrarian life. I think it means still knowing what the price of soybeans is. I think it's $10 and 30 cents a bushel. It's ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Author Wright Thompson's New York Times bestseller, "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" (Random ...

Wright Thompson is one of the best sports writers in America. He also doesn’t stick to sports. While he’s best known for his work with ESPN, he has a new book about one of the most horrific moments in ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new ...

The barn is nondescript. Lifeless. Plain. Another in a nation full of old wooden barns. Built from cypress boards of indeterminate age, weathered gray over the decades, the former cotton shed, until ...

THE BARN: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. By Wright Thompson. Penguin Press. 448 pages. $35. “Nobody knows when it was built exactly but its cypress-board walls were already weathered ...

Wright Thompson’s “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” begins with what three Delta sharecroppers saw and heard coming from the eponymous barn in Drew, Miss., on Aug. 28, 1955. At ...

Marcia Franklin talks with author Wright Thompson at the 2025 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Host Marcia Franklin talks with author Wright Thompson about his book, “The Barn,” which delves into the ...

OXFORD — As thousands of University of Mississippi students left the school's famous Grove following its annual graduation ceremony, they were left with key pieces of advice from commencement speaker ...