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  • Visiting Writer Bill Cotter & The Grown Up Lady Story Company

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    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 […]

  • Visiting Writer Holly George-Warren

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    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 […]

  • Visting Writer Jacqueline Woodson

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    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 […]

  • Visiting Writer Tim Johnston

    Crosstown Arts & Booksellers at Laurelwood present Visiting Writer Tim Johnston Please join us (in collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood) to welcome Crosstown Arts first Visiting Writer for 2015, Tim Johnston, to read from and sign his thrilling debut adult novel, Descent (Algonquin Books). A story that begins as a family’s fated summer trip to the Rocky Mountains […]

  • Visiting Writer Alan Lightman

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    Presented by Burke's Book Store and Crosstown Arts   Mr. Lightman will be reading from and signing copies of his memoir, Screening Room: Family Pictures ($25.95 hardcover, Pantheon Books)  A Q & A session will be moderated by Memphis historian and author Wayne Dowdy From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein's Dreams, here is a stunning, […]

  • Visiting Writer Amy Greene

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    Presented by Booksellers at Laurelwood and Crosstown Arts Reading and discussion with the author and WKNO's Darel Snodgrass Free admission and refreshments Author's website Reviews of "Long Man" “The Tennessee Valley Authority was designed to help modernize the state during the Great Depression, but only spells destruction for the town of Yuneetah. Greene’s excellent second […]

  • Visiting Writer Tom Piazza

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    Join us for our latest collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood as we welcome Tom Piazza to Memphis to read from and sign his new novel, A FREE STATE.

  • Book Release: Memphis Noir

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    A rich volume of Southern urban noir exploring sides of Memphis that only the locals know, but often don’t reveal.

  • Visiting Writer Donald Ray Pollock

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present Visiting Writer Donald Ray Pollock upon the release of his newest  novel, The Heavenly Table. From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place […]