Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC

Blue Bicycle Books — Newsletter 2-18-16

In this issue:

*Amber Tamblyn — Thurs., Feb. 25

*2016 author luncheon series — Rescue Road, Fri. Feb. 19

*Wine + Food Pop-Up, Mar. 4 – 6

*Baird Hoffman Story Time, Fri. Mar. 4

*Nikky Finney at Ashley Hall, Wed. Mar. 9

*Writing Camp

*Signed David McCullough

*Praying for Pat

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Thurs., Feb. 25, 6 pm, writer and actress Amber Tamblyn will read from her poetry collection Dark Sparkler (Harper Perennial, pb., $18).

A lifelong performer from a Hollywood family, Tamblyn (The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsTwo and a Half Men) is also a poet who has studied with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman and others.

Each poem in Dark Sparkler is a portrait of an actress — Brittany Murphy, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, more — who met troubling ends. The book features original artwork by David Lynch and Marilyn Manson and others.

It’s a wonderful book, and we are so thrilled to have Amber come and read. Hope you can join us and then catch her husband David Cross at the Gaillard at 7:30.

Not sold yet? Quentin Tarantino blurbs that Tamblyn “has a gift for words”and he rewrote the Old Testament.

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Friday, Feb. 19New York Times best-selling author Peter Zheutlin talks about Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs and a Million Miles on the Lost Hope Highway (Sourcebooks, pb., $15), Hall’s Chophouse, 434 King St.

Tickets are $30 for the author talk and three-course luncheon, or $45 for lunch plus a signed book. Buy tickets here or through the 24/7 hotline 800-838-3006. For special requests call 843-303-1113. Doors open at 11:30 am and lunch is at noon.

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We’re popping up a pop-up shop at Charleston Wine + Food FestivalMarch 4 – 6. Pop in to the W+F merch tent in Marion Square (near the fountain) for all the chef signings.

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Fri., March 4, 4 pm, author and illustrator Baird Hoffmire will host a story hour for Boris Crookedback and the Dragon of Wang-Dang-Baloo. Juice boxes will be provided, bring your own child.

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Wed., March 9, 7 pm, S.C. native and National Book Award winner Nikky Finney reads at Ashley Hall to kick off the school’s Spring Writers series.Admission is free, but please reserve a space here.

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Write of Summer, Blue Bicycle Books’ Writing Camp — is back for our fourteenth (14th) year in Charleston. We have eight (ocho) sessions to choose from. Camp spots tend to fill up quickly, but they are not full now. Go to writeofsummer.com and ‘get your camp on’  (in the parlance of our times.)

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Pulitzer and NBA-winning historian David McCullough (1776, The Great Bridge, The Wright Brothers) was kind enough to drop in recently. This means two things:

  1. We currently have signed copies of all his works.
  2. With Amber Tamblyn’s visit, the Blue Bike circle of John Adams/Traveling Pantsauthors/actors-who-starred-in-the-adaptation will finally be complete (Paul Giamatti and Ann Brashares, 2014). This is the book store equivalent of the EGOT.

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You may have already heard the sad news that Pat Conroy has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pat has been extremely generous to Blue Bicycle Books in the last nine years — several marathon signings and many more kindnesses. He is a great spirit and man of letters. Sending all our love and prayers to Pat and Cassandra as they fight this.

 

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