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Book talk with Dan Carter, author of Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter
Book talk with Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life
Book talk with Lee Durkee, author of Stalking Shakespeare
Book talk with James R. Hansen, author of Completely Mad
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ArtTalk with Emily Thomas
Book Talk with Jefferson Cowie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom's Dominion
Reading the great 19th-Century Russian Writers: a talk by Dr. Lee Farrow
Book Talk with Victor Luckerson, author of Built From The Fire
Sickle Cell Anemia Talk With UAB Children's Hospital
Music and Stories with The Vikings
The NewSouth Bookstore first annual sidewalk sale
Book Talk with Mayor Steven Reed, author of First, Best
The NewSouth Bookstore 2023 holiday reading of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner
Book Talk with Burgin Mathews, author of Magic City
Author/journalist Howell Raines captivates a bookstore group with his talk about Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta – and Then Got Written Out of History
Dr. Kirk Curnutt gives a fascinating bookstore presentation on the complicated life and work of Alabama's own Zora Neale Hurston
Book talk with Steve Suitts, author of A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America
The NewSouth Bookstore and Read Freely Alabama co-host an evening of letter writing to protest Alabama code changes impacting book access in public libraries
Ilyon Woo, in conversation with Dr. Lee Farrow, captivates with her talk about Master Slave Husband Wife at The NewSouth Bookstore
Beto O'Rourke wows our large bookstore crowd with his inspiring talk about democracy and voting rights in connection with the paperback release of We've Got to Try: How the FIght for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible
Frye Gaillard celebrates the paperback release of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s with a talk at The NewSouth Bookstore
Trish O'Kane gives talk on her new book Birding to Change the World at The NewSouth Bookstore
The NewSouth Bookstore hosts our second annual poetry read-aloud for National Poetry Month
Patricia Foster joins us at The NewSouth Bookstore for a talk about and reading from Written in the Sky
British Historian Dominic Erdozain at The NewSouth bookstore with One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
Five presenters and a packed house for a program celebrating the release of Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging
The NewSouth Bookstore kicks off summer with Karren Pell and the Old Alabama Revue
The NewSouth Bookstore is offsite for a fun, successful day at Prattville Pride!
The Montgomery Dulcimer Players open an evening of talk by Michael Streissguth about Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music
Edda Fields-Black was a wonderful bookstore presenter on the subject of her important work, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Poets Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel delight an audience with talk about their creatively conceived poetry collection, Glass Cabin
Mike Coleman brings his fabulous talk about coming out as told in The Way From Me to Us to The NewSouth Bookstore
In an amazing program, New York Times journalist Elizabeth Dias was our featured speaker, presenting on the topic of her landmark new book coauthored with Lisa Lerer, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
A great program was had with Mary Annaïse Heglar, author of Troubled Waters: A Novel, in conversation with Kandeaux, founder of The Farm Plug, about the book's many themes
The NewSouth Bookstore's first Local Author Day!
Dr. Lee Farrow leads The NewSouth Bookstore's second group read with Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Grace Elizabeth Hale leads a fantastic talk on her book In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning at The NewSouth Bookstore
Stephen Puleo wows an audience with his talk about Charles Sumner, subject of his new biography The Great Abolitionist
The NewSouth Bookstore hosts its 2024 annual Sidewalk Sale – and it's simply fabulous
The story of John Turner's lifelong love affair with the Appalachian Trail – subject of his new book, Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail – captivates our bookstore audience
Madiba Dennie was a smart, wonderful bookstore guest in October for a program about her new book, The Originalism Trap. An engaged audience had questions aplenty!
In a fascinating talk related to his new book, The Presidents and the People, Professor Corey Brettschneider enlightened a NewSouth Bookstore audience about five Presidents who have threatened our democracy
It was a grand afternoon at The NewSouth Bookstore of sharing stories about the multitalented Eugene Walter — and his presence was felt by all! Special guests Carolyn Haines, Bert Hitchcock, and Don Noble along with the Walter estate helped make it happen
Kathleen DuVal was a bright light at The NewSouth Bookstore, presenting on Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, a signifcant new work that is a feat of both storytelling and scholarship
Karren Pell and the Old Alabama Revue rocked the house at The NewSouth Bookstore with their spooktacular Halloween-themed show, giving even ghouls a reason to rise from the dead!
Lesa Carnes Shaul, author of Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain, vividly evoked for an audience at The NewSouth Bookstore the story of a brutal killing and a different time in rural Alabama
We had a full house at The NewSouth Bookstore to welcome school librarian Amanda Jones, with us to talk about her bestseller, That Librarian. In conversation with Andrew Foster, Jones gave helpful perspective on the thorny issues of book banning which challenge our communities and nation. For her compassion, commitment, and common sense, we think Jones is a superstar!
It was an SRO crowd at The NewSouth Bookstore for our very special 2024 holiday program, organized by John Martello. There were readings and music, and laughter filled the air. Merry, merry to our great bookstore family!
