Join us, date tbd, at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., as urban planner Thomas Wilson signs The Ashley Cooper Plan (UNC Press, pb., $35). About the book: In this highly original work, Thomas D. Wilson offers surprising new insights into the origins of the political storms we witness today. Wilson connects the Ashley Cooper Plan–a seventeenth-century model for […]
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Kathryn Budig — Aim True — Downward-Facing Riverdog, Thurs., Apr. 14
Friday, March 18, 2016
Join us Thurs., Apr. 14, 6 pm at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, 360 Fishburne St., downtown Charleston, as author and yogi Kathryn Budig leads a yoga class on the Riverdogs baseball field. (Cleats not required. Or encouraged, really.) Buy event tickets here. Can’t make it? Pre-order a signed copy of Aim True (William Morrow, pb., $25) here. About the book: In […]
Poetry reading by Richard Garcia, author of Porridge — Thurs., Mar. 17, 5:30 pm
Monday, March 14, 2016
Join us Thurs., Mar. 17, 5:30 pm, for a poetry reading and reception with Richard Garcia, author of Porridge (Press 53, pb., $14.95). About the author: Richard Garcia is the winner of Press 53’s 2016 Award for Poetry. The author of six books, his poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, The Cortland Review and Ploughshares. His work […]
Author Luncheon with Michele Moore and The Cigar Factory, Fri., Mar. 18, 12 pm
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Blue Bicycle Books’ Author Luncheon Series continues, Friday, Mar. 18, 12 pm, Halls Chophouse, 434 King St., as author Michele Moore discusses her new novel The Cigar Factory (University of South Carolina Press, hb., $28). Tickets are $30 for the author talk and three-course luncheon, or $58 for lunch plus a signed book. BUY TICKETS HERE About the book: The sun […]
Author Reading with Baird Hoffmire and Boris Crookedback and the Dragon of Wang-Dang-Baloo, Fri., Mar. 4, 4 pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Blue Bicycle Books’ welcomes author/illustrator Baird Hoffmire, Friday, Mar. 4, 4 pm, Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., as he debuts his children’s book Boris Crookedback and the Dragon of Wang-Dang-Baloo (pb., $10). About the book: What happens when a big, bad, mean dragon comes to a little village and terrorizes all its inhabitants? Will anyone step up and be a […]
Amber Tamblyn’s Dark Sparkler, Thurs., Feb. 25
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Join us Thurs., Feb. 25, 6 pm at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., downtown Charleston, as author and actress Amber Tamblyn reads from her poetry collection Dark Sparkler (Harper Perennial, pb., $18). About the book: A lifelong performer from a Hollywood family, actress Amber Tamblyn (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Two and a Half Men) is also […]
Blue Bicycle Books — Newsletter 2-18-16
Sunday, February 21, 2016
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 *** Thurs., Feb. 25, 6 pm, writer and actress Amber Tamblyn will read […]
Sheridan Hough’s Kierkegaard’s Dancing Tax Collector — Thurs., Feb. 11
Monday, February 8, 2016
Join us Thurs., Feb. 11, 5 – 7 pm, as College of Charleston professor Sheridan Hough discusses and signs copies of her most recent book, Kierkegaard’s Dancing Tax Collector (Oxford UP, hb., 208 pp, $40). With a cover designed by local artist Duke Hagerty, her third book explores Kierkegaard’s conception of self and faith through the […]
Author Luncheon with Peter Zheutlin and Rescue Road, Fri., Feb. 19, 12 pm
Friday, February 5, 2016
Blue Bicycle Books’ Author Luncheon Series kicks off the new year, Friday, Feb. 19, 12 pm, at Halls Chophouse, 434 King St., as New 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). Tickets are $30 for the author talk […]
Release party for Brad Taylor’s The Forgotten Soldier, Tues., Dec. 29!
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Join us Tues., Dec. 29, 6 pm at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., downtown Charleston, to celebrate the release of the ninth installment in the Pike Logan series: The Forgotten Soldier (Dutton, hb., $27) by Brad Taylor. A retired Delta Force operator, Brad Taylor served in the U.S. Army for over 20 years, retiring as a Special Forces Lieutenant […]