{"id":35342,"date":"2025-07-31T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35342\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:36:08","slug":"celebrate-eli-cranors-mississippi-blue-42-at-wordsworth-books-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35342\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Eli Cranor’s ‘Mississippi Blue 42’ at WordsWorth Books on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELI CRANOR, SCOTT CARSON
TUESDAY 8\/5. WordsWorth Books. 6:30 p.m. Free.<\/p>\n

Pope County writer Eli Cranor is back, but he never really went anywhere. \u201cMississippi Blue 42<\/a>,\u201d out Aug. 5, is his fourth novel in as many years. A former pro athlete, the book sees Cranor return to a domain he\u2019s quite familiar with \u2014 college football \u2014 but I wouldn\u2019t write this one off if you\u2019re not a sports person. In classic Cranor fashion, \u201cMississippi Blue 42\u201d (read an excerpt here<\/a>) is far more concerned with intrigue and corruption than the minutiae of the game, as FBI rookie Rae Johnson investigates a potential fraud case in the University of Central Mississippi\u2019s football program that quickly turns deadly. According to Publishers Weekly<\/a>, \u201cCranor expertly keeps the pot simmering until a pervasive stench settles over virtually all parties.\u201d A star quarterback gets thrown off the roof of a bar, for crying out loud! Celebrate the novel\u2019s release at WordsWorth Books with a conversation between Cranor and Scott Carson, the pen name of New York Times bestselling author Michael Koryta. Reserve your spot at wordsworthbookstore.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Grear is the print editor at the Arkansas Times. He also writes about culture. Send tips to danielgrear@arktimes.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Daniel Grear\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELI CRANOR, SCOTT CARSONTUESDAY 8\/5. WordsWorth Books. 6:30 p.m. Free. Pope County writer Eli Cranor is back, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,32299,63,457,32300,134,32301,32302,32303],"class_list":["post-35342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-august-2025-magazine","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-eli-cranor","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-koryta","tag-scott-carson","tag-wordsworth-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}