Eli Cranor, writer in residence and instructor in the Arkansas Tech University College of Arts and Humanities, will be a guest on the “Paul Finebaum Show” on SEC Network and ESPN Radio on Wednesday, Aug. 27, to talk about his new novel, “Mississippi Blue 42.”
Cranor will appear at 4 p.m. Central Daylight Time.
According to information provided by publisher Soho Crime, “Mississippi Blue 42” centers on an investigation by special agent Rae Johnson into the “tangled web of a college football empire…and the bloody greed that fuels it.”
Soho Crime’s description states that “Mississippi Blue 42” provides “a hard and often hilarious look at the big-money world of college athletics.”
The novel is Cranor’s fourth in as many years. He also authored “Don’t Know Tough,” which was released in 2022 and won both the Peter Lovesey First Crime Novel Contest and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel by an American author; “Ozark Dogs,” which was released in 2023 and was recognized by the New York Times, The Guardian, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and CrimeReads as one of the best novels in its category that year; and “Broiler,” which was released in 2024 and was one of 30 books selected to the long list for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
The 2025-26 academic year is Cranor’s third as a member of the ATU faculty. He hosted approximately 160 aspiring writers for the inaugural ATU Lit Fest on the Arkansas Tech campus in Russellville during the spring 2025 semester.
Learn more about “Mississippi Blue 42” at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/778180/mississippi-blue-42-by-eli-cranor.
