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SUMMARY:Julie Williams with Wings of Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun National Aviation Month presentation with award-winning historian Julie Hedgepeth Williams. Her book Wings of Opportunity describes a lesser-known chapter of the Wright brothers’ history\, which began in 1910 when Wilbur and Orville moved to Montgomery\, Alabama to open our nation’s first civilian flight school. Says one reviewer of her book: “Dr. Williams is a masterful storyteller. In Wings of Opportunity\, Julie Williams vividly recreates the complex tale of civic pride\, two aviation pioneers who had little interest in public image\, local journalists who didn’t know what to make of them\, and the fascination of ordinary citizens with the amazing invention of flight.” Take-off is at 5:30pm on November 9!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/julie-williams-with-wings-of-opportunity/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Part Two of Great 19th-Century Russian Writers talk with Dr. Lee Farrow
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lee Farrow returns to The NewSouth Bookstore for the second talk in a series about the great 19th-century Russian writers. She will continue discussing the theme of the “superfluous man” in Russian literature\, focusing on the works of Mikhail Lermontov\, Ivan Turgenev\, and Ivan Goncharov. These three authors portrayed the ideological and generational conflicts that were challenging Russian educated society\, fixing a critical eye on the hypocrisies and ineffectiveness of both the intellectuals of the “old guard” and the younger generation that would replace them.” As many of you have already discovered\, Farrow is a lively and knowledgeable presenter. You won’t want to miss her program!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/part-two-of-great-19th-century-russian-writers-talk-with-dr-lee-farrow/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Hocus Pocus Movie Night and Costume Contest at The NewSouth Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:It wouldn’t be Halloween without kids and a little Hocus Pocus. Yes\, we have that great book for sale\, but we also have a fun event planned which includes screening of the Halloween classic\, a costume contest\, and more. Bring your children and come dressed at your spookiest best. This is safe family fun — even if there is a scare or two involved!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/hocus-pocus-movie-night-and-costume-contest-at-the-newsouth-bookstore/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Sidewalk Sale at The NewSouth Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:The NewSouth Bookstore holds its first ever Sidewalk Sale. Join us at the curb for a sale of thousands of books\, new and used\, priced at $5\, $3\, and $1. It’s a bonanza of titles! There’s sure to be something of interest to you. Rain or shine! One week only! Bring a friend!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/sidewalk-sale-at-the-newsouth-bookstore/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Music and Stories with the Vikings\, Featuring Nils Maaetoft and Karren Pell
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of live music and song with the Vikings\, led by Danish artist Nils Maaetoft and friend and co-writer Karren Pell\, along with fellow artists Tim Henderson\, Larry Gobrecht\, Tony Castaldo\, and Danish multi-instrumentalist Micheal Lund. Their program titled “Songs and Stories” will feature such Maaetoft favorites as “Love Is Still a Mystery” and “Wetumpka by Dinnertime” and – if the Muses are generous – some new tunes as well. The evening promises to be great fun.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/an-evening-of-music-and-stories-with-the-vikings-featuring-nils-maaetoft-and-karren-pell/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:The NewSouth Bookstore hosting Betty Amstutz Gerson
DESCRIPTION:Betty Gerson returns to Alabama for a talk about her newly released memoir\, From Montgomery to the Matterhorn. Her book details the story of her move to Zurich after falling in love with a young Swiss man after college; her experiences living in Switzerland; and the social\, political and historical aspects of the cultures of both her homelands. Join us for what will be a delightful evening. Book signing to follow.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-newsouth-bookstore-hosting-betty-amstutz-gerson/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Understanding Sickle Cell Disease Community Advocacy Event
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to host a special educational program called Understanding Sickle Cell Disease: A Community Advocacy Event\, arranged in partnership with Sickle Cell Foundation\, Greater Montgomery\, and Children’s of Alabama. A panel of doctors and researchers collaborating in the treatment of sickle cell anemia will gather to update our friends and neighbors about the disease. Come listen and learn!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/understanding-sickle-cell-disease-community-advocacy-event/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:NewSouth Bookstore hosting Victor Luckerson
DESCRIPTION:Victor Luckerson comes home to his native Montgomery for this special bookstore program in connection with the release of his new book\, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District\, America’s Black Wall Street\, is a multigenerational saga of a community that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\, urban renewal\, and gentrification. Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker calls Built from the Fire “an American epic — damning in its implications\, inspirational in its theme of perseverance no matter the obstacles\, and compelling from its opening paragraph to its final sentence.” Victor Luckerson is among the best journalists covering race matters today\, writing for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and other publications. His first Montgomery appearance since the publication of Built from the Fire is bound to be a fascinating one. Please join us.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/newsouth-bookstore-hosting-victor-luckerson/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Lee Farrow Series on 19th-century Russian Writers Begins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special three-part series on Russia’s great nineteenth-century writers led by Lee Farrow\, Chair of the Department of History and World Cultures at Auburn University at Montgomery. Farrow’s first program will be held Thursday\, September 7\, at 5:30pm. Her topic for the evening will be the work of Alexander Pushkin\, widely considered Russia’s greatest poet\, and his contemporary Nikolai Gogol\, who both critiqued Russian society and government through their writing\, the only way intellectuals could challenge the autocracy in a (relatively) safe manner. Pushkin\, in particular\, highlighted the impotency of Russia’s educated upper class and created the trope of the “superfluous man” that would dominate Russian literature for several decades. Three cheers to Steve Brickley\, whose request for “intellectually stimulating bookstore programming” led us to reach out to Lee Farrow. Our sincere thanks to Dr. Farrow for gifting us with this program. You won’t want to miss it.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/dr-lee-farrow-program-on-19th-century-russian-writers/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Pulitzer Prize Winner Jefferson Cowie Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Count us fortunate! Jefferson Cowie will be our guest on Wednesday\, August 16 at 5:30pm with his new Pulitzer Prize-winning book\, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. In fact\, he’ll be in Alabama traveling with the Pulitzer Prize committee. Freedom’s Dominion is a magisterial work — “important\, deeply affecting\, and regrettably relevant” (NY Times) — which traces the long-running clash between white people and federal authority through the lens of Barbour County\, Alabama\, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. The New Republic calls Freedom’s Dominion “outstanding and urgent. A remarkable achievement.” Please join us in welcoming Professor Cowie for a talk about his powerful work of history.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/pulitzer-prize-winner-jefferson-cowie-book-talk/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Art Talk with Emily Thomas from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
DESCRIPTION:The NewSouth Bookstore hosts Emily Thomas of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts for an ArtTalk.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/art-talk-with-emily-thomas-from-the-montgomery-museum-of-fine-arts/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:The NewSouth Bookstore hosting James R. Hansen!
DESCRIPTION:James Hansen joins us on Thursday\, July 20 at 5:30pm for the perfect summer book program connected with his new release\, Completely Mad. From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone. In this bracing adventure tale\, the story of John Fairfax and Tom McClean are woven together for the first time. Fairfax would set off from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa with his sights on Florida. McClean charted a course from Newfoundland to Ireland. Though the two men’s remarkable transoceanic journeys seem pulled from a different era\, both finished within days of the first landing on the moon in July 1969. With gripping and insightful prose\, James R. Hansen brings to life their nail-biting expeditions.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-newsouth-bookstore-hosting-james-r-hansen/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Lee Durkee Coming to The NewSouth Bookstore!
DESCRIPTION:Author Lee Durkee will be our very special bookstore guest on Thursday\, June 22 at 5:30pm with his new work\, Stalking Shakespeare. This book is a darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Stalking Shakespeare is an entertaining and surprisingly moving blend of biography and art history with a dash of madness added in. Lee Durkee with regale us with his adventures in writing this book. Don’t miss the fun!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/__trashed/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T173000
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SUMMARY:Reading at NewSouth Books: Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter
DESCRIPTION:The fascinating double identity of Asa Carter is a subject of Dan Carter’s newest book\, Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter\, new from NewSouth Books. A distinguished Southern historian\, Dan Carter (no relation) has spent decades researching his subject\, who was a secret advisor to George Wallace in the 1960s and wrote his famous “Segregation now\, Segregation Forever” speech. Asa Carter disappeared from Alabama in the ‘70s and resurfaced as a Cherokee author in Abilene\, Texas\, writing under the name Forrest Carter. Curiously\, he went on to author the sensitively told The Education of Little Tree\, which became a bestseller. The unbelievable story Carter’s life and activities is conveyed with vigor and insight in Unmasking the Klansman. It practically guarantees that Dan Carter’s bookstore talk will be every bit as interesting.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-at-newsouth-books-unmasking-the-klansman-the-double-life-of-asa-and-forrest-carter/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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