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 ….
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 ….
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 ….
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 ….
Reading and Discussion of Wash: a novel with award-winning author Margaret Wrinkle, accompanied by an exhibition of photography by the artist and a reception
Sponsored by V02 Networx
Wash, written by Margaret Wrinkle, reexamines slavery in ways that challenge contemporary assumptions about race, history and power as it carries the reader from the American South to West Africa and deep into the ancestral stories that reside in the soul.
Crosstown Arts will ….
