Jaime Fleres presents Birth Your Story: Why Writing about Your Birth Matters
Birth Your Story is about using writing to remember, process, heal and honor the entirety of your birth experience. You are forever changed, and how you tell the story can determine whether the power of birth serves or hinders your life. Whether you're pregnant or birthed decades ago, a seasoned or novice writer, man or woman, this book is for you.
The book inspires and supports you to write your birth story, takes the intimidation and other obstacles out of writing, offers accessible writing prompts and support, and includes over 15 inspiring stories -- about birth loss, adoption, home birth, premature birth, surrogacy, cesarean birth, and more.
Feel empowered to write your story, honor your experience, value your voice, heal your past and transform your future, and find freedom through authentic expression. Because your stories matter. Because YOU matter.
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Event date:
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 6:00pm
Event address:
Malaprop's Books/Cafe
55 Haywood St.
Asheville, NC 28801
Ethan Kytle & Blain Roberts with DENMARK VESEY'S GARDEN (in conversation with Jodi Skipper)
In the tradition of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered in Charleston, South Carolina—the heart of Dixie.
A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey’s Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof shot nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, the congregation of Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a massive slave insurrection in 1822.
As early as 1865, former slaveholders and their descendants began working to preserve a romanticized memory of the antebellum South. In contrast, former slaves, their descendants, and some white allies have worked to preserve an honest, unvarnished account of slavery as the cruel system it was.
Examining public rituals, controversial monuments, and whitewashed historical tourism, Denmark Vesey’s Garden tracks these two rival memories from the Civil War all the way to contemporary times, where two segregated tourism industries still reflect these opposing impressions of the past, exposing a hidden dimension of America’s deep racial divide. Denmark Vesey’s Garden joins the small bookshelf of major, paradigm-shifting new interpretations of slavery’s enduring legacy in the United States.
About the Author
Ethan J. Kytle is a professor of history at California State University, Fresno. The author of Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era and the co-author, with Blain Roberts, of Denmark Vesey's Garden (The New Press), Kytle lives in Fresno, California.
Blain Roberts is a professor of history at California State University, Fresno. The co-author, with Ethan J. Kytle, of Denmark Vesey's Garden (The New Press) and the author of Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women, she lives in Fresno, California.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 5:00pm
Event address:
Off Square Books
129 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655
Paperback Release Event: Christopher Swann - Shadow of the Lions
How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? That is just one question Christopher Swann explores in this compulsively readable debut, a literary thriller set in the elite—and sometimes dark—environs of Blackburne, a prep school in Virginia. When Matthias Glass’s best friend, Fritz, vanishes without a trace in the middle of an argument during their senior year, Matthias tries to move on with his life, only to realize that until he discovers what happened to his missing friend, he will be stuck in the past, guilty, responsible, alone.
Almost ten years after Fritz’s disappearance, Matthias gets his chance. Offered a job teaching English at Blackburne, he gets swiftly drawn into the mystery. In the shadowy woods of his alma mater, he stumbles into a web of surveillance, dangerous lies, and buried secrets—and discovers the troubled underbelly of a school where the future had once always seemed bright.
A sharp tale full of false leads and surprise turns, Shadow of the Lions is also wise and moving. Christopher Swann has given us a gripping debut about friendship, redemption, and what it means to lay the past to rest.
Author Bio:
Christopher Swann earned a Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State University and has won awards and recognition from GSU, Washington and Lee University, and the Heekin Group Foundation's Tara Fellowship for Short Fiction. He is the English department chair at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, where he has taught for two decades. He lives with his wife and two sons in Atlanta.
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Event date:
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Jaime Fleres presents Birth Your Story: Why Writing about Your Birth Matters
Jaime Fleres presents Birth Your Story: Why Writing about Your Birth Matters
Birth Your Story is about using writing to remember, process, heal and honor the entirety of your birth experience. You are forever changed, and how you tell the story can determine whether the power of birth serves or hinders your life. Whether you're pregnant or birthed decades ago, a seasoned or novice writer, man or woman, this book is for you.
The book inspires and supports you to write your birth story, takes the intimidation and other obstacles out of writing, offers accessible writing prompts and support, and includes over 15 inspiring stories -- about birth loss, adoption, home birth, premature birth, surrogacy, cesarean birth, and more.
Feel empowered to write your story, honor your experience, value your voice, heal your past and transform your future, and find freedom through authentic expression. Because your stories matter. Because YOU matter.
We ask that you purchase the books you want to be signed at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here.
Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or order the book on our website in advance, and we’ll get it signed for you. Make sure you write your preferences in the comments if you purchase online.
Event date:
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 6:00pm
Event address:
Malaprop's Books/Cafe
55 Haywood St.
Asheville, NC 28801
Malaprop's Book Club
Host Jay Jacoby will lead a discussion of Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan.
Event date:
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 7:00pm
Event address:
Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
Main Street Writers is the bookstore's open writing club, where writers of all ages, levels, and genres are invited to convene and dedicate 1.5 hours to honing their craft.
Meetings are guided by the legendary Jean Berg, who also teaches a creative nonfiction at DavidsonLearns and has published poetry, articles, and a nonfiction book (that is, of course, in inventory at Main Street Books).
Colleen Hoover debuts All Your PerfectsAll Your Perfects
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us—whose writing is “emotionally wrenching and utterly original” (Sarah Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)—delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.
Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.
All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?
Octavia Books is an independent, locally-owned bookstore located uptown in New Orleans. We hope you will stop by soon to see our great hand-picked selection of books, meet our owners & staff, talk about the latest books or find your favorite author.
Justin Nystrom - CREOLE ITALIAN
Join us for a presentation and signing with historian Justin A. Nystrom celebrating the launch of his new book, CREOLE ITALIAN: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture.
How generations of Sicilian immigrants flavored creole cuisine
In CREOLE ITALIAN, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groceries, ran truck farms, operated bars and restaurants, and manufactured pasta. Citing these cultural confluences, Nystrom posits that the significance of Sicilian influence on New Orleans foodways traditionally has been undervalued and instead should be included, along with African, French, and Spanish cuisine, in the broad definition of “creole.”
CREOLE ITALIAN chronicles how the business of food, broadly conceived, dictated the reasoning, means, and outcomes for a large portion of the nearly forty thousand Sicilian immigrants who entered America through the port of New Orleans in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and how their actions and those of their descendants helped shape the food town we know today.
Author event with Melissa Radke author of Eat Cake. Be Brave
Author event with Melissa Radke author of Eat Cake. Be Brave
Parnassus Books is thrilled to welcome Melissa Radke as as she discusses and signs Eat Cake. Be Brave.
When Melissa Radke turned 41, she decided to be brave and to live boldly. All the changes that she thought happened in someone’s life at 40 actually happened to her the following year. Melissa is an internet sensation whose videos have been viewed millions of times, and now a debut author. She charts the road to that watershed age in Eat Cake. Be Brave., a joyfully honest and heartfelt book of life-affirming stories told with her signature saucy humor. Melissa’s online videos have reached over 57 million people on her Facebook page alone in a little over a year. In Eat Cake, Be Brave., Melissa takes us on a life journey that should have killed her but made her funnier, written with her own special Southern blend of humor, faith, and candor. Sprinkled with attitude she got from her mom and street smarts she learned from Seinfeld, she explores tough issues of empowerment and self-worth, along with the trials of parenting, marriage, aging, and cheerleader tryouts.
Once upon a time, Melissa believed a teacher who told her she would never amount to anything; a guy in high school who stood her up at the Senior Prom and made her feel unworthy of love; and a friend who said she was fat and an embarrassment. Then one day, Melissa looked at herself in the mirror, told herself to stop listening to people’s destructive words, and instead walk into a room like there’s a party being thrown in her honor. Melissa promises that if we all erase who we were and fight for who we want to become…she will do a cartwheel. And then she’ll write her second book from a hospital bed. Eat Cake. Be Brave. is a story of unexpected self-discovery by an authentic writer who remembers to celebrate life, perhaps even with a slice of cake (except for carrot.)
Melissa Radke’s “Upside Down French Braid” video has close to 10 million views and her “Red Ribbon” video has been viewed over 100 million times across multiple websites and media outlets. A Texan born and bred, Melissa spent 15 years of her life in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked as a studio session singer for Recording Artists after graduating from Belmont University. Since becoming a parent, she moved her family back to her East Texas hometown because the barbecue is better and the babysitting is free.
Event date:
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 6:30pm
Event address:
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14
Nashville, TN 37215
Cathryn Hankla, Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home
Cathryn Hankla, Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home
Thursday, August 2, 7pm
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Founded in fieldwork and reflection, LOST PLACES follows the author from small towns and rural landscapes, through a transitional city neighborhood, to the challenging construction of an urban renewal loft, as she struggles to renovate living spaces and transform relationships after an early divorce. In a voice droll and lyrical by turns, Hankla charts a path through enigmatic encounters with snakes and contemplations of Thomas Jefferson's problematic biography homes, underground and ancient cities, Star Trek, the contradictory nature of Appalachia, desire, our families, spiritual callings, and definitions of home. The title essay offers an extended meditation on "the center place," Chaco Culture, cradle of pueblo civilization in northwest New Mexico, its talismanic beckoning and interpretative layers.
Embracing the tradition of contemplative labyrinths, one woman wanders her path, pumping toward then away from the heart, revealing her perception of reality as circuitous, continuous, and essentially non-rational and sensory. Hankla invites us to seek deeper understandings and connections with our own inner landscapes and the earth itself. In reading this memoir, we engage with a writer's mind at work on the world and experience how the world works on the writer, as Hankla confronts and traces, with an abundance of faith and curiosity, her own and our collective spirals of consciousness and desire, which repeat and expand through time.
Born in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Cathryn Hankla has authored more than a dozen books in multiple genres, including GREAT BEAR, GALAXIES, and FORTUNE TELLER MIRACLE FISH. She is a professor in the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University and Poetry editor of The Hollins Critic.
Mean Christianity: Finding Our Way Back to Christ's Likeness explores the Christian faith as an intentional, daily commitment to others--a cathartic and uncomfortable journey that leads travelers to Christ's likeness. The book considers how and why individual Christians and the corporate body of Christ have come to be perceived negatively by so many. It describes the primacy of Christ as the central tenet of Christianity and offers seven " Jesus" life themes for every Christian. These themes, based on a qualitative study of the canonical gospels, assist readers with the development of a framework for a Christlike life. The book defines Mean Christianity and considers its causes and costs. Readers are confronted with both the possibility of meanness in the faith and in their actions and encouraged to consider a Christlike life as an alternative to meanness. Finally, readers are introduced to the concepts of forgiveness, grace, and mercy as a part of God's broader plan for reconciliation and fullness in life. "With courage and insight, Ogletree confronts a Christianity in which individual and corporate meanness masquerade as conviction, a religion whose moralistic rhetoric obscures 'offensive and despicable' action. He calls us to recognize and repent of such Christian meanness, rediscovering the radical grace of the Jesus Story." --Bill J. Leonard, Professor of Baptist Studies and Church History, Wake Forest University Billy T. Ogletree is the Brewer Smith Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Carolina University. A speech-language pathologist and university educator interested in the communicative success of individuals with intellectual disabilities, Dr. Ogletree is a well-cited author of over seventy professional articles, chapters, and books. He is also a long-time Christian who writes for d365, an online devotional series. Dr. Ogletree's devotions emphasize the challenging yet cathartic possibilities associated with following Jesus.
Billy T. Ogletree is the Brewer Smith Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Carolina University. A speech-language pathologist and university educator interested in the communicative success of individuals with intellectual disabilities, Dr. Ogletree is a well-cited author of over seventy professional articles, chapters, and books. He is also a long-time Christian who writes for d365, an online devotional series. Dr. Ogletree's devotions emphasize the challenging yet cathartic possibilities associated with following Jesus.
We ask that you purchase the books you want to be signed at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or order the book on our website in advance, and we’ll get it signed for you. Make sure you write your preferences in the comments if you purchase online.
Ruby Lal - Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
at Jimmy Carter Presidential Library on 08/02/2018, 07:00 pm
Ruby Lal | Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
ABOUT THE BOOK
Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Her legend still lives, but her story was lost―until now.
In 1611, 34-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favorite wife of the Emperor Jahangir, who ruled the vast Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she issued imperial orders; coins of the realm bore her name. When Jahangir was imprisoned by a rebellious nobleman, the Empress led troops into battle and ultimately rescued him.
The only woman to acquire the stature of empress in her male-dominated world, Nur was also a talented dress designer and innovative architect whose work inspired her stepson’s Taj Mahal. Nur’s confident assertion of talent and power is revelatory; it far exceeded the authority of her female contemporaries in Renaissance Europe, including Elizabeth I. Here, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.
Conscious Aging Book Club discusses The December Project by Sara Davidson
This summer, the Conscious Aging Book Club will conduct a series of meetings at Parnassus Books for individuals in the Nashville area who aim to age well. The club's meetings, featuring non-fiction and memoir titles, will be led by author Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. Each meeting is free and open to the public; buy the book, read the book, and join the conversation! This month the club will be reading and discussing The December Project by Sara Davidson.
In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, New York Times bestselling author Sara Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your cells that you're coming to the end of your tour of duty," he said, "what is the spiritual work of this time, and how do we prepare for the mystery?"
For two years, they met every week, and this is Davidson's memoir of what they learned and how they changed. Interspersed with their talks are sketches from Reb Zalman's extraordinary life. He barely escaped the Nazis, became an Orthodox rabbi in the US, was married four times and had eleven children, one from a sperm donation to a lesbian rabbi, and formed friendships with leaders of other faiths, such as Thomas Merton and the Dalai Lama. Breaking with the Orthodox, he founded the Jewish Renewal Movement to encourage people to have a direct experience of God.
Together they created strategies to deal with pain and memory loss, and found tools to cultivate simplicity, fearlessness, and joy--at any age. Davidson includes twelve exercises so that readers may experience what she did--a sea change in facing what we all must face: mortality.
Event date:
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 10:30am
Event address:
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14
Nashville, TN 37215
August Story Slam - "Steam" Theme
Event date:
Thursday, August 2nd - 6:00-7:30 P.M.
Event address:
1123 Thomasville Rd
Tallahassee, FL 32303
Midtown Reader is delighted to continue our tradition of hosting talented local writers each month for our story slam series. This August we're exploring the heat with the theme "steam." Local writers should send in 600 words or less on the theme by July 26th to be considered for a reading in store on August 2nd.
Colleen Mayo, an MFA student in Fiction at FSU, will be emceeing our Story Slams and helping select our writers/readers each month. Colleen has work published in The Sun Magazine, Bluestern, and serves as the online editor of The Southeast Review. She also won the 2017 FSU Creative Writing Spotlight Award. Colleen also co-hosts a podcast on writing at FSU with Sean Towey. She's from Austin, TX, and lives in a yellow house with her husband and her cat.
WRITERS: Please use the following criteria for all submissions:
*Times New Roman/12 pt font/1”margins/double-spaced
*600 words or less
*Fiction or Nonfiction
*Due the last Thursday of the month (this month's deadline: July 26th)
* Writing piece should fit with the theme of "Steam."
*If selected, must be available to read the evening of August 2nd
*Name should not appear anywhere on the submission itself.
* Please include a brief cover letter within the email.
*Send your submission to storyslam@midtownreader.com
Building on the activist tradition of Consciousness Raising groups, each month we invite community members to join this lightly facilitated group to talk about issues in their personal lives or in society as a whole that they are trying to process or deconstruct. The group will then use intersectional feminist strategies as tools to help talk through those issues. Group members will share resources, books, websites, and support. We hope that this group will grow from a place of venting and expressions of solidarity into concrete actions and collaborations. Whether you are new to thinking about feminism or have been through several waves, we invite you to join us and share. People of all genders, levels of political experience, and education are welcome.
This is a Charis Circle Founding the Future of Feminism Event. The suggested donation is $5
Event address:
Charis Books and More
1189 Euclid Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Pre-School Story Time!
10:30 am every Thursday morning (stories and songs, then bubbles and drawing until 11:30am)
Event date:
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Event address:
752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Singalong Storytime
Join Emily Arrow for songs, stories, and fun on Thursdays at 4pm at Parnassus Books! Emily Arrow (and her ukulele named Bow) has created her own genre of music: kidlit tunes! Emily creates original songs inspired by children's literature that cultivate an appreciation of reading, bringing today's best picture books to life through song. Emily's singalong storytimes at Parnassus Books are free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, but Emily's storytimes are especially recommended for children ages 3 through 9 (and their grown-ups!).
Event date:
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 4:00pm
Event address:
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14
Nashville, TN 37215
Storytime Thursday @ Fiction Addiction | Greenville | South Carolina | United States
Aug 2 @ 10:30 am Fiction Addiction
Local independent bookstore Fiction Addiction hosts a free children’s storytime at our shop at 1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5
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