The award-winning novelist signs copies of his newest book, My Reading Life, at the Captain’s Bookshelf on Sunday, Nov. 28.
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Upcoming book events
With everything else in the works, don’t forget to lineup your fall and winter reading (you don’t want to be caught at the first teacher conference/doctor’s appointment/family holiday get-together/snow storm without a good book). To help you decide what to read, check out these author events.
Amy Sedaris is coming back to Asheville
Author/comedian Amy Sedaris will return to Asheville this fall in support of her new book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People.
This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend’s top 10 includes Asheville’s Broomstars (pictured) playing at MoDaddy’s with Ween drummer Claude Coleman Jr. and his band Amandla. That’s Saturday, but Thursday and Friday bring more music, art and author events (including a muralist just published by Punk Planet).
Book Report: Three new books
Just because the days are longer, brighter ad warmer doesn’t mean there isn’t time to read. Like, on your beach getaway, or on your back deck while sprawled across a lawn chair. To get you motivated to trade your sunglasses for reading glasses, here are three recent releases.
Edgy Mama: Local authors write for kids and parents
You can’t swing a dead opossum in Asheville without hitting a writer. And some of these writers are writing kids books. A few are writing for parents. Now you can take that “buy local” mantra to the next level by purchasing locally written (and a few locally published) books at one of our independent bookstores (gaining complete “put your $ where your heart is” cred).
This weekend in books
Feeling literary? Or like escaping the rain, drinking a jumbo-sized macchiato and listening to an astute author read to you? This evening through Sunday promise plenty of bookish opportunities.
Book Report: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
Danger, intrigue, guns, girls, Robinhood righteousness and Bourne Identity audacity: Thomas Mullen’s bank robbing Fireson Brothers have it all.
Book Report: Requiem by Fire
In his new novel, local author Wayne Caldwell returns to Cataloochee as the area’s residents are forced out by the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
From vampires to swans
Elizabeth Kostova, author of New York Times bestseller “The Historian,” launches her new novel, “The Swan Thieves” in Asheville tomorrow.
Book Report: High Anxiety
The latest novel by South Carolina writer Charlotte Hughes is a dizzying work of high energy, high speed, high spirited and highly entertaining hijinx.
Southern writer Nicole Seitz visits WNC
The author of A Hundred Years of Happiness reads from her new book, Saving Cicadas.
Edgy Mama: All hail ‘Wimpy Kid’
My family discovered Jeff Kinney’s books several months ago — long after most of the 9-12-year-old set—and we’ve become Wimpy Kid addicts. These books are the first young adult books that speak to all four of us — kids and adults alike.
Book Report: The Well and The Mine
Sensitive, sweet and real (yet blissfully light in all the places it so easily could be dark), Gin Phillips’ The Well and The Mine moves with the ease of a beach read yet offers the pithy substance of a time-tested classic.
Book Report: Bobo County
Local author Gary Allen Duke’s Bobo County is the tale of a boy and his dog, but also an account of growing up in the wild countryside of the American Southwest.
Book Report: Love Child
A memoir by Allegra Huston, daughter of film director John and sister of actress Anjelica. Huston makes a Saturday stop at Malaprop’s.
Book Report: Four to read
Our local authors deserve a good read and there’s no shortage (the potential avalanche on my desk attests to this) of material. Here are few worthy options.
Book Report: Nutcase
Charlotte Hughes’ latest novel reads at a breathless, breakneck pace but also provides plenty of fluffy, fun escape.
Book Report: The Help
Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel is ambitious. Through a chain of events, the three women find themselves drawn together on a secret project that will reveal the never discussed relationships between Jackson, Mississippi’s black and white women who live and work side by side and yet never truly know one another.
Book Report: Literary events in March
Take your pick: A reading by a renowned poet, a selection of book clubs, new releases and an Akashic Books author coming to Asheville.
Book Report: The Frontier Nursing Service
This is the story of Mary Breckinridge, the intrepid health care provider who founded the The Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky during the 1920s. She single-handedly lowering one of the nation’s highest maternal mortality rates to one of the country’s lowest.