Heather St. Aubin-Stout will sign Not My Mother’s Journey, a memoir of her battle with breast cancer, at Blue Bike on Sat., Mar. 12, 3-5 pm. Twenty years after losing her mother to the same disease, her own diagnosis floods her with memories of her mother’s struggle and death. However, through her own treatment, she realizes that […]
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Karen Allen, March 18
Monday, February 7, 2011
Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Karen Allen on Fri. March 18, 5 – 7 pm to sign copies of her novel Beaufort 1849. In this antebellum tale, Jasper Wainwright, a progressive thinker who returns to Beaufort with his freed slave and finds that in his absence, his home city has flourished into a haven for wealthy planters and hotheaded sucessionists. […]
Survivor’s Guide to Bonnaroo, Apr. 2
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Blue Bike welcomes author and music festival veteran, Tara Groth, on Sat., Apr. 2, 1-3 pm to sign copies of her guidebook How do you Roo? A Survivor’s Pocket Guide to Bonnaroo It turns out there is more to attending Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival than bringing sunscreen and a wide-brimmed bat. Groth takes us […]
Ginny Brant, Feb. 28
Friday, January 14, 2011
Blue Bike welcomes Ginny Dent Brant, author of Finding True Freedom: From the White House to the World, on Mon. Feb. 28, 2 – 4 pm. Brant is the daughter of Harry Dent, Republican Southern Strategist for the Nixon campaign. When the Watergate scandal broke, Dent was accused along with the rest of the Nixon administration. […]
Jillian Wright, Feb. 25
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Blue Bike Books welcomes Jillian Wright on Fri., Feb. 25, 3-5 pm to sign copies of her new novel, The Man Under the Bridge, a compelling work inspired by her interactions with the homeless. As a child, Wright remembers her mother feeding a homeless person lingering around her house. As she got older, she remembers the presence of a […]
Barbecue Nosh Mob, Dec. 16, 5:30pm
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Join us for an official Charleston City Paper NOSH MOB event to celebrate Robert Moss’s new book Barbecue: The History of an American Institution (University of Alabama Press, hb., $26), Thurs. Dec. 16, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Moss, a City Paper food writer will discuss the standard BBQ menu and talk about how brisket, sauces, […]
Signed Sedaris!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Sedaris was here. Waiting for Gabo and Larry. My top five literary inspirations are: Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, David Sedaris, Larry David and J.D. Salinger. Of those that are not dead, David Sedaris is the only one to visit the store personally. He came by a couple weeks ago, and we still have signed […]
Capital BookFest, Nov. 6
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Capital BookFest is this weekend, Counting all mics at the store and the downtown Public Library, there will five (5) stages running currently, featuring the likes of poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez, Rumi’s translator Coleman Barks, local stars like Bret Lott, Josephine Humphreys, Mary Alice Monroe, Nathalie Dupree, and Gary Smith (SI Sportswriter), […]
Story Hour!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Marc Hoffman, author, and Tony Waters, illustrator, will sign copies and read from their new children’s book Sleep, Little Child on Sat., Oct. 23, 11 – 12 pm. Join us on the carpet for a reading, juice boxes and goldfish. ###
CofC Miscellany Event
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Miscellany is the College of Charleston’s annual Literary and Art Magazine publishing student work in poetry, fiction, prose, art and photography. The magazine’s student organization is hosting an event at Blue Bike on Thurs., Sept. 30, 6:30 – 8:30 pm with an informal writing exercise (“Erasures”), food, music provided by the newly founded Songwriters club […]