Jeff Barry

Author of “Go to Hell Ole Miss,” USA TODAY Bestseller. Professor at UTC. Love dogs and hummingbirds and Grizzlies, like one of three cats, dislike February.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Lonesome Dove might be the best limited series ever made. Robert Duvall & Tommy Lee Jones are historically great in this series. This aired in 1989 but still holds up so well- it’s a timeless Western epic. Duvall is right in the middle of his prime here. One of the best ever.

[Damichael Cole @DamichaelC]

I caught up w/Jay Huff. He talked about playing w/the Grizzlies, then he had some things to say about people giving the city of Memphis a “bad rep.”

“I think that the way people talk about Memphis is unnecessary, and I think Memphis is a great city.”

✍🏽: https://t.co/IeQJLPq7nE

[Golf Digest @GolfDigest]

Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard.

[Jeff Barry @Buck_Barry]

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[MS Top 100 @MSTop100]

Congratulations to Jim Dees of Thacker Mountain Radio for his inclusion in the 2025 Class of Mississippi Top 50!

[Square Books @SquareBooks]

🎉Next Thursday, join us on Thacker Mountain Radio Hour to meet author Jeff Barry for Go to Hell Ole Miss, a compelling Southern tale with characters that become people who make you laugh, cry, and think.👏
Learn more: https://t.co/dFIHewt506

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude."

Mary Oliver's advice on writing https://t.co/Yknni1z9dY

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

"It was another person at the rim."

Ja on his dunk on Wemby 😅

(via @MyMikeCheck) https://t.co/zfdDDoLWdp

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or memory or mental picture.” —William Faulkner https://t.co/rtQDbAjae6

[EBRP Library @ebrpl]

Join us for an exciting book talk and signing with Jeff Barry, author of the USA Today Top 20 bestseller, Go to Hell Ole Miss, at the Main Library at Goodwood next Friday at 5 p.m.

[Jeff Barry @Buck_Barry]

How did a lone POW in a cold German shed find hope in GO TO HELL OLE MISS? @tplbooks @CohibaJoe1 @McFarlandMac @gwincscott @nterfloth

https://t.co/1GpDsceax5?

[Joey Bland @deltafarmland]

Jeff Barry’s debut novel, Go To Hell Ole Miss, hit Amazon’s Bestseller list the 1st week it was out. In the 1st month the book landed in the USA Today Bestseller Top 150 & was Top 20.Terrific southern novel set in the MS Hill Country. https://t.co/tKY1YE6Qjd #dontletthetitlefoolu

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"If you can fall in love again and again...if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked."
Henry Miller, upon turning 80, on how to remain young at heart as you grow older: https://t.co/Mm7yb4asY5

[John Varlas @johnvarlas]

Now posted on the @DailyMemphian preps page: Bobby Alston is calling it a career after a 47-year run at @OwlBuzz And what a run it was. https://t.co/dTiljh5nGU

[Ploughshares is on Bluesky @pshares]

By slowing down, you can linger, you can learn, and you can make the moment last. https://t.co/TStrjKhfZt

[Literary Hub @lithub]

"I’m not writing for a particular audience. The reader in mind is me. If someone else would write these books I could go play golf." https://t.co/93JhGb8RDo

[Seasons: stories that reconnect @SeasonsPodcast1]

Final episode w writer, @Buck_Barry, exploring Buck’s 1st novel. A tale of hope & hardship, redemption & revenge. Barry’s novel tells the story of a father’s willingness to do almost anything to protect his daughter from the man she marries. Almost. https://t.co/IIF54wPWtX

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The dandelion and the meaning of life – G.K. Chesterton on how to access the "submerged sunrise of wonder" https://t.co/TvjM6OnLDA

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Texas ranger James Buckner "Buck" Barry in Corsicana, 1853. Buck was a Texas frontiersman who had a dangerous and distinguished career as a Texas Ranger, Indian fighter, scout, sheriff, and rancher. At the time this daguerreotype was made in 1853, Barry was serving as Navarro County treasurer. This is a daguerreotype, which refers to an early photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor. Being that it was made in 1853, it is likely the second oldest photo I have tweeted, after the 1848 image of the Alamo.

This image comes from the extremely fine Lawrence T. Jones III collection at SMU's Degolyer Library. You can browse the collection yourself right here but be forewarned that is addictive:

https://t.co/k0TbpctSeA

Fantastic offerings by those nice folks!