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Please join us at story booth on Monday, Oct. 13, from 3 to 5 to welcome Crosstown Arts’ latest visiting writer, Jacqueline Woodson, as she reads from and discusses her National Book Award-nominated memoir in verse, “Brown Girl Dreaming.” Thanks to The Booksellers at Laurelwood for affording us this rare opportunity to let our young writers interact with a professional writer of such high acclaim. All ages welcome for this one.
Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award after her ….

presented by Literacy Mid-South
Events at story booth, 438 N. Cleveland

Making Memphis
Thursday, September 25, 6 pm
story booth, 438 N. Cleveland, free admission
Festival kick-off with authors Dan Conaway, Willy Bearden, and Corey Mesler, with moderator Harry Freeman from WEVL. 
Impossible Language 
Friday, September 26, 8 pm, readings begin at 8:30
story booth, 438 N. Cleveland, free admission
Fall premiere of poetry reading series created and hosted by poet Ashley Roach-Freiman. 
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Reading and booksigning of Further Joy

Internationally-acclaimed, bestselling author Michael Pollan visits Memphis

An event to celebrate the release of
A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton
The first biography of the influential musician and forebear of the indie-rock scene
by Holly George-Warren
presented by Crosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood

Conversation with the author and Andria Lisle at 7 pm
Live performance by Loveland Duren at 8 pm
(Vicki Loveland and Van Duren)
Opening Act: Ross Johnson and the Klitz
Exhibit by Vincent Astor and more
Free admission

Crosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood present visiting writer Bill Cotter and The Grown Up Lady Story Company
The author will read from his most recent novel “The Parallel Apartments”

Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits — a hemophobic aspiring serial killer, a deranged soprano opera singer, a debt-addicted ….

Please join us for a reading of “The Kept” and conversation with the writer and WKNO’s Justin Willingham
Booksigning to follow
Free admission
Recent review in the New York Times
“James Scott has written a riveting and memorable debut novel.”
—Tom Perrotta, author of “Little Children” and “Election”
“Scott is both compassionate moralist and master storyteller in this outstanding debut.”
—Kirkus, ★ starred review
“By the end of the book, you’ll be convinced that [Scott] can do just about anything.”
—Kevin Wilson, ….

Sculpture Unveileing: Are There Fish in Lick Creek?
by Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh, Winner of Memfeast 2013
V&E Greenline at Evergreen Street near Tutwiler
Join us for the unveiling of “Are there Fish in Lick Creek” with live music, food, drinks and fun for the whole family! Bluegrass by Eric Lewis and others, plus the Tamale Trolley.
Read the article about the project in the Memphis Flyer