Travel + Leisure named a Mississippi college town one of the best in the U.S. Find great food, books, shopping, more in this ...

As with Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or Conroy’s Colleton, the town itself emerges as a central character with a complex and fulfilling arc all its own.

And his greatest creation, a small world as real to us as the dirt under our feet, the mythical Yoknapatawpha County. Between Grief and Nothing: The Passions, Addictions and Tragic End of William ...

NEW ALBANY — The William Faulkner Literary Garden in New Albany has served as a place of connection — for people, literature and nature — for 20 years.

One City, Three Ways: Oxford, Mississippi Gourmands, bookworms, and football fans find common ground in this small college town with a bustling historic square ...

Just to show I’m not a total cretin unaware of literary precedent, Strout’s project is similar to William Faulkner’s approach with his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, but honestly, the way ...

Yoknapatawpha County, Barchester, Hogwarts, The Shire. Fiction is littered with imaginary locales that feel as real to devoted readers as their own hometowns.

Now, in Yoknapatawpha County, an equally mythical but heretofore relentlessly dark and bloody portion of Mississippi, a similarly pacific sea change has taken place.

Famously, the late author and long-time Oxford resident William Faulkner found Lafayette County so rich with Southern life that he included it, disguised as the fictional "Yoknapatawpha County ...

Famously, the late author and long-time Oxford resident William Faulkner found Lafayette County so rich with Southern life that he included it, disguised as the fictional "Yoknapatawpha County ...