Blue Bicycle Books

Michael Kaiser, author of The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations.

Tues., Feb. 23, 9 am, College of Charleston Recital Hall in the Simons Center for the Arts

Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser, author of The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations, will speak about current challenges and opportunities for arts organizations as a part of the “Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative 50 State Tour.”  In his new book Kaiser shares with readers his ten basic rules for bringing financially distressed arts organizations back to life and keeping them strong.  Join us in hearing about Kaiser’s experiences at the College of Charleston Recital Hall in the Simons Center for the Arts.

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Signed copies will ship after Feb. 23

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Blue Bicycle Books has partnered with Charleston Stage to offer you a $5 discount on tickets to Twelfth Night, Feb 25 – March 7 at the Sottile Theatre.  Purchase tickets here, and enter the promotional code ‘BBTN5′

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Blue Bicycle Books is delighted to welcome author Katie Crouch back to the store, signing copies of her newest novel Men and Dogs, Fri., May 21, 5 – 7 pm.

Self-proclaimed southerner-in-exile Katie Crouch will be coming home and giving Blue Bicycle Books a visit Fri., May 21, 5 – 7 pm. Since her first book, Girls in Trucks, we have been anticipating both her second visit and her newest book, Men and Dogs, out April 12.

Though she always knew she wanted to be a writer, Crouch didn’t commit herself to writing until her late 20’s, leaving her advertising job for the MFA program at Columbia. Now living in San Francisco, Crouch’s work has been featured in the New York Observer, Glamour, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. While growing up in Charleston, Crouch attended Cotillion training, but was never a debutante, an important distinction. Although she has taken herself out of the south, it’s still brimming in her work. Her sophomore novel deftly follows a woman whose life has fallen apart back to Charleston decades after her father’s unsolved disappearance to learn not only about her father, but about herself. Maybe it’s true (in both Crouch and her characters); you can’t take the south out of the girl.

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