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Contemporary Charleston 2010: Influences
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Category Archives: News
New Store Hours!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
So-Called Whisper
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Many customers noticed the mad scramble of handwritten sheets of notebook paper covering the counter recently. Blue Bike staff and volunteers were busy compiling, culling, typing and editing poems written at Burke High School this past fall. (It’s sort of our version of Simon, Randy, Kara and Ellen going through all those polaroids during Idol [...]
Blue Bicycle Books Author Luncheon Series
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lemon and Rosemary
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thurs., Jan 21 was a big day with the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Kami and Margie had a whirlwind tour of Charleston, visiting the set of Lowcountry Live, Ashley Hall, Burke High School, and Blue Bike Books.
Signing books at the store, they marked them with a ‘Gatlin County Library’ stamp, and Jonathan gave [...]
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 [...]
Clay Rice Silhouettes, Oct. 22
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Renowned silhouette artist Clay Rice will cut personal silhouettes and sign copies of his book The Lonely Shadow (Joggling Board, 2009, hb., $19.95) on Thurs., Oct. 22, 3 – 6 pm.
Taught by his grandfather Carew, Clay Rice is a 21st century folk artist and a Lowcountry treasure. Watching him cut a child’s silhouette in five minutes [...]
Emily Arsenault, Sat., Oct. 17
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Emily Arsenault will sign copies of The Broken Teaglass on Sat., Oct. 17. Emily is a family friend* and we are thrilled to be a stop on the tour for her debut novel. She worked as a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster for four years after college, and this murder mystery is for word lovers. We’re currently reading [...]
Stephen Rea, Sat., Sept. 5, 5 – 7 pm
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
New Orleans-based Irish author Stephen Rea will sign copies of his book Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead at Blue Bicycle Books on Sat., Sept. 5, 5 – 7 pm.