Fri., Feb. 15, at 7:30 pm 2011 National Book Award Winner and South Carolina native Nikky Finney will be reading at the Charleston School of the Arts. Nikky will be appearing as the keynote speaker for the 2013 Robinson Jeffers Association Conference. The reading will take place in the SOA’s Rose Maree Myers Theater for the […]
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Brad Taylor’s Enemy of Mine
Monday, January 7, 2013
Tues., Jan. 15, 7 pm, help us celebrate the release of Charleston-based writer and retired Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Brad Taylor’s third book, Enemy of Mine, at the Blind Tiger Pub, 36 Broad St. The third installment in Taylor’s Pike Logan thriller series, Enemy of Mine follows Logan and his partner as they track an […]
Helen Correll’s Middlewood Journal
Monday, January 7, 2013
Join us Thurs., Jan. 10, 5 – 7 pm, as Spartanburg-based artist and photographer Helen Correll signs copies of her new illustration and observation book, Middlewood Journal: Drawing Inspiration from Nature. With a foreword by naturalist Janisse Ray, the journal gathers Correll’s illustrations and writings from her hikes and strolls around her house in the […]
Holiday Hours
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Christmas Eve 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Christmas Day CLOSED New Year’s Eve 10:00 am – 3:00 pm New Year’s Day CLOSED Happy Holidays!
Sharman Ramsey’s Swimming with Serpents, Dec. 14
Monday, December 10, 2012
Join us Thurs., Dec. 14, 5 – 7, as Alabama-based historian / genealogist / writer Sharman Burson Ramsey signs her first novel, Swimming with Serpents (Mercer University Press, hb., 360 pp, $26). The result of research on late 17th and 18th century Native Americans, the novel is a quick-paced historical romance centered around the Indian […]
Artist Luncheon with Mary Whyte — Tues., Dec. 11
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Blue Bike’s Author Luncheon Series continues with renowned local artist Mary Whyte, Osteria la Bottiglia, 420 King St. (next door to the bookstore), 12 noon, Tues. Dec. 11, 2012. Tickets are $25 and include lunch, author talk and a champagne-and-dessert reception. Ms. Whyte will be discussing her new book Down Bohicket Road (USC Press, 152 […]
Literary Dogs and Their South Carolina Writers book release!
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Thurs., Nov. 29, 5 – 7, Charleston authors and their canines will be on hand to celebrate the release of the anthology Literary Dogs and Their South Carolina Writers (Hub City Press, pb., 140 pp, &19.95) at the Charleston Library Society, 164 King St. Dorothea Benton Frank, Mary Alice Monroe, Christopher Dickey, Josephine Humphreys, Marjory […]
Sheridan Hough signs Mirror’s Fathom Fri., Nov. 23, 2-4 pm
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
This Friday, Blue Bicycle Books welcomes College of Charleston philosophy professor Sheridan Hough to sign her new novel Mirror’s Fathom (Mercer University Press, 256 pp., hb., $28.00). Though she has published several books of philosophy and history, Mirror’s Fathom is Hough’s first novel. Part love story, part mystery, part exploration of Kierkegaardian philosophy, the book sounds like the […]
Nathalie Dupree, Cynthia Graubart, Cliff Graubart
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Join us this Fri., Nov. 16, 2 – 4 pm, as master Southern chefs Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart sign their new, largest-to-date full-color cookbook, Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking (Gibbs Smith, hb, $45). With a forward by Pat Conroy and covering everything from carrot slaw to Nana Stuffie’s fried shrimp, this book may […]
YALLFest 2012 Sat., Nov. 12
Friday, November 2, 2012
The second annual YALLFest is quickly approaching! Last year, literature-lovers from here in Charleston, around the South, and across the country helped make YALLFest into one of the country’s premier young adult book festivals . YALLFest 2012 will feature 48 of the country’s top YA authors (twice as many as last year!), and all of […]