The Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series continues Sat., March 13, noon to 2 pm, with local novelists Batt Humphreys and Nicole Seitz.
Mount Pleasant’s Nicole Seitz, author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass, Trouble the Water, and A Hundred Years of Happiness will discuss her newest novel. Saving Cicadas is the story of Priscilla Lynn Macy, [...]
Category Archives: Events
Blue Bicycle Books Author Luncheon Series
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Matt and Ted Lee, Simple Fresh Southern, March 7
Monday, February 8, 2010
Blue Bicycle Books welcomes renowned food writers Matt and Ted Lee, signing copies of The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern, Sun., Mar. 7, 2 – 4 pm.
The local boys-made-good will close out the weekend of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival with a sidewalk peanut boil on King Street.
We first met Matt [...]
Slowcountry Food
Monday, February 1, 2010
Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement and author of Terra Madre, reception and signing at McCrady’s Restaurant, 2 Unity Alley, Tues., Feb. 23, 4 – 6 pm. $10, Slow Food Charleston members, $15 for non-members.
Join Blue Bicycle Books, Slow Food Charleston and McCrady’s as we welcome the face of Slow Food to the [...]
Southeastern Wildlife Exposition Booksignings
Friday, January 29, 2010
City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery, by the late Ted Ashton Phillips Jr.. Ted was a great scholar and brought joy to everyone he encountered. One of our favorite Charleston people writing about one of our favorite Charleston places. Thomas Brown, the book’s editor, will sign copies 11 am to 12:30 pm, [...]
Jeff Mapes, Pedaling Revolution, Feb. 4
Monday, January 25, 2010
Jeff Mapes, author of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities.
Thurs., Feb. 4, 7 pm, Southend Brewery
Jeff Mapes, a senior political reporter for The Oregonian and longtime bike commuter, explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.
Pedaling Revolution, traces the growth [...]
The Literary Event of 2009
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Charleston, Dec. 12 — Pat Conroy came two hours early and signed special orders in the lit room. Without taking a lunch break, he then went straight to the big tent outside and signed for the next five hours, taking his time with every single person in line — posing for pictures, shaking hands. We [...]
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, Jan. 21
Friday, December 25, 2009
Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the authors of the YA novel Beautful Creatures, on Thurs., Jan. 21, 4 – 6 pm.
Set in a fictional small town near Summerville, the book is getting a national push from publisher Little, Brown and has been very well received critically.
Garcia and Stohl live in LA [...]
Pat Conroy book signing, Sat. Dec. 12, 1 – 3:30 pm
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Yes he said yes he will yes!
Pat Conroy has graciously offered to come and sign copies of his blockbuster novel South of Broad at Blue Bicycle Books (about a mile north of Broad, for the record).
This is his only booksigning on the Peninsula. South of Broad is already our all-time bestseller. We’ve received [...]
Release party for Hot and Hot Fish Club Cookbook, Mon., Nov. 23, 5 – 7 pm
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Join us for the release party of Hot and Hot Fish Club Cookbook by Chris and Idie Hastings on Mon., Nov. 23, 5 – 7 pm. The party is sponsored by Garden and Gun Magazine. Chris Hastings’ roots are in Pawley’s Island, where his great-great grandfather belonged to a 19th-century epicurean hunt and fish club called Hot and Hot. [...]
Book-cessories
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Katie Johnston Jewelry and Lauren Sanchez Purses, Thurs., Dec. 17, 5 – 7 pm
Blue Bicycle Books will have champagne and snacks and feature local designers Katie Johnston (jewelry) and our own Lauren Sanchez (pocketbooks), two old friends from Auburn architecture school. Both women are taking a break, and taking cues, from their day jobs in [...]