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Author and social commentator Salman Rushdie talks about the start of his writing career during the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Award-winning authors Jesmyn Ward and Rick Bragg joined a number of Southern writers representing nonfiction, fiction, novels, cookbooks, children's books, environmental, history and photography, at the fourth Mississippi Book Festival. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Ward, Rushdie draw large crowds at Mississippi book fest

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

This combination photo shows upcoming releases, from left, &quot;What Happened,&quot; by Hillary Rodham Clinton, from Simon &amp; Schuster, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery,&quot; by Scott Kelly, from Knopf, &quot;Origin,&quot; a novel by Dan Brown from Doubleday, Sleeping Beauties,&quot; a novel by Stephen King and Owen King from Scribner and &quot;Turtles All the Way Down.&quot; by John Green from Penguin. (AP Photo)

Book world hopes for literary breakthrough in fall

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