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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 The Commonplace Book | Read This! | The List | {Book} Trailer Park | Okra Picks | Southern Indie Bestsellers | Events |
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In which Mr. Jeff Klinenberg risks giving journalism a good name, Mr. Daren Wang finds a printing press in his basement, and her ladyship, the editor takes a working vacation and gloats more than a little bit. |
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Her ladyship, the editor, is writing today from the forty-ninth floor of her hotel in New Orleans. Not that she enjoys the full benefit of the view -- heights make her ladyship, well, "swimmy-headed," as her Aunt Ruth used to say. But from a safe distance from the windows, the harbor is beautiful. This weekend is the annual Discovery Show for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance in New Orleans. It is a weekend spent talking to authors about their new books, publishers about their fall and winter lists, and booksellers about the books they are most excited about. Some of the authors coming to the show Envious? No doubt next week her ladyship will also be writing about all the new and forthcoming books she can't wait to read, by writers she met and found utterly charming. Envious now? Did she mention this event is held in New Orleans' French Quarter? How about now? Good books. Good food. Great people. This is her ladyship's idea of a working vacation. Read Independently! And shop local.
Sponsored by the wonderful and indefatigable women at She Reads, and featuring Christina Baker Kline and Joshilyn Jackson. Click here to purchase your tickets and to see other confirmed authors. |
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Lady Banks' Pick of the Week |
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Noteworthy poetry and prose from her ladyship's bedside reading stack. |
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The shoes had been sound when he set out, but the frozen fields and mountain crossings had worn through the soles, tearing apart the stitching at the heels and toes. Joe had bound them together three nights earlier with a length of rough twine he found by the side of the road and had not taken them off since, afraid they would fall apart and leave him nothing. Every step broke the crust of snow with a crackling noise and the fine powder beneath sifted into his shoes through the holes and the split seams. The faint sound echoed across the frozen meadow. He felt as if he'd been hungry forever. He had spent the day hiding in a luggage car under a horse blanket, and the crust of bread he'd eaten had been so dry it had made his gums bleed. The porter, a freedman named Mayfield, had brought it to him along with instructions: "Get off at Alden. The stop after that is Town Line, and the station agent there is a serious one. Checks for stowaways most every night. When we slow down, get yourself off the back of the train so no one will notice you. Stay away from the road. Head west and look for a barn with a white horseshoe. About three miles. Keep your head low. Don't mess around with no one else. "Is there a sign for Alden?" Joe asked. "You read?" Mayfield asked, surprise in his voice. "Yes." Daren Wang, The Hidden Light of Northern Fires (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) 9781250122353 Meet the author:
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keep reading: Alligators in B-Flat
 " I wanted to tell the story of how I had become a racist."
keep reading: Charles B. Dew |
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Read This! Books with Street Cred Recommended reading from Southern Indie Booksellers |
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If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss ($15.99*, Sourcebooks Landmark), recommended by Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA.
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent ($27.00*, Riverhead Books), recommended by Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC.
The Salt Line by Holly Goddard, ($2600*, GP Putnam's Sons), recommended by Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. |
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keep reading: Good lands and bad guys
keep reading: Walker Percy |
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The List: Eight Fabulous Fall Books, from Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN |
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"There were leftovers of a printing press in the basement, and this ancient shotgun..." |
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"A wise and timely book." ―Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to take over the household duties and management of her family's farm, while her brother Leander avoids his own responsibilities. Helping runaways is the only thing that makes her life in Town Line bearable. When escaped slave Joe Bell collapses in her father's barn, Mary is determined to help him cross to freedom in nearby Canada. But the wounded fugitive is haunted by his vengeful owner, who relentlessly hunts him up and down the country, and his sister, still trapped as a slave in the South. As the countryside is riled by the drumbeat of civil war, rebels and soldiers from both sides bring intrigue and violence of the brutal war to the town and the farm, and threaten to destroy all that Mary loves. The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang | Thomas Dunne Books | 9781250122353 | Read the first chapter
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For the week ending September 10. Books on the Southern Indie Bestseller List that are southern in nature or have been recently recommended by southern indie booksellers.  The Southern Book Prize |  A SIBA Okra Pick |  Special to the Southern List Printable versions (PDF): Hardcover | Paperback | Children's |
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What's happening at Southern Indies across the South? See the full calendar | Find a Southern Indie Bookstore near you. |
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M. Evelina Galang in conversation with Edwidge Danticat (author appearance) Victoria Landis Booksigning (author appearance) Matthew Baker's New Book on His Mountain Heroes (author appearance) Craig Johnson - The Western Star: A Longmire Novel (author appearance) Jim Fergus Author of The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (author appearance) Conversations at NPL presents Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (author appearance) Author event with Will Schwalbe author of Books for Living (author appearance) Margarita Engle (author appearance) Claudia Molina (author appearance) David Uribe (author appearance) Ruth Hartman Berge and Prudy Taylor Board (author appearance) Roger Johns, Dark River Rising with Trudy Nan Boyce & Tracee de Hahn (author appearance) Robert Beatty - SERAFINA (author appearance) Sharyn McCrumb to Present Her New Novel (author appearance) Book Event with Illustrator: Matt Myers - Infamous Ratsos (author appearance) Author Event: Eric Braeden - I'll Be Damned (author appearance) Mike Lupica - Lone Stars (author appearance) Phil Cohen - The Jackson Project: War in the American Workplace (author appearance) Author Pop-Up with Dr. Laurel Shaler (author appearance) An After Hours Event with Dr. Michael Marcades (author appearance) Author Event: Ana Homayoun - Social Media Wellness (author appearance) MINDFUL PARENTING: From Chaos to Calm -- with Sumi Loundon Kim (author appearance) David Burnsworth Launch Party (author appearance) Author event with Crystal Day, author of Mason the Bull (author appearance) Author event with Stuart Gibbs, bestselling children's book author (author appearance) Author Meet & Greet: John Sledge (author appearance)
Maryn McKenna - Big Chicken (author appearance) Jim Fergus - The Vengeance of Mothers (author appearance) Reading and Signing with Sharyn McCrumb (author appearance)
Alastair Gordon in conversation with Bart Voorsanger (author appearance) James Ponti at Winter Park Public Library (author appearance) Celeste Headlee - We Need to Talk (author appearance) Property Brothers - It Takes Two: Our Story (author appearance) Sonny Seals & George Hart: Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (author appearance) Book Launch Party and Mandala Workshop (author appearance) Christopher Kelly: America Invaded: A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil. (author appearance) Buddy Roemer - SCOPENA: A Memoir of Home (author appearance) Mark Bray discusses his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (author appearance) AN EVENING OF SPECULATIVE FICTION & FANTASY with Becca Gomez Farrell, Mur Lafferty, & James Maxey (author appearance) Nancy Learned Haines, We Answered With Love (author appearance) Dr. Mary Jane Ingui (author appearance) Anaïs Depommier (author appearance) Jimmy Webb - The Cake and The Rain (author appearance) Author Maryn McKenna: BIG CHICKEN (author appearance)
Karen Zacharias, Christian Bend (author appearance) Panny Mayfield with LIVE FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA (author appearance) Double Author Event: Brock Adams & Holly Goddard Jones (author appearance)
John Sledge (author appearance) Author and Journalist Celeste Headlee: WE NEED TO TALK (author appearance) Cliterati Open No Mic Featuring Andrea Jurjević (author appearance) Patty Friedmann: An Organized Panic: A Novel (author appearance)
Eileen Myles with AFTERGLOW (author appearance) Coffee with the Poet Featuring Kelly Lenox (author appearance) Local Author Event: Alessandra Macaluso - Real Deal Bridal Bible (author appearance) Emily Herring Wilson - The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own (author appearance) Michael Hardt, Assembly (author appearance) Author event with Jamie Ford author of Love and Other Consolation Prizes (author appearance) Book Reading and Signing with Brian L.Tucker (Swimming the Echo) (author appearance)
An After Hours Event with Jim Nesbitt (author appearance) Annalee Newitz, Founding Editor of iO9, Presents Autonomous (author appearance) |
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