The NewSouth Bookstore actively hosts bookstore and off-site literary programs — book talks and readings — along with a variety of other programs both entertaining and educational. These include presentations by historians, readings of plays, music events, and community service programs. We enjoy such gatherings quite a lot. Our bookstore events calendar is always evolving, so please regularly check back here for updates to our calendar (and/or follow us on social media, where all such activities are also posted). We welcome your event suggestions and thank you for your support.
We are pleased to host Foster Hirsch for a talk and signing on the subject of his newest book, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System,...
Contributors to a fabulous new anthology of Southern writers, titled The Best of the Shortest, will be our guests at a program celebrating the recent release of that book. Suzanne Hudson, co-editor of...
The best event of Montgomery’s 2023 holiday season may be our one-afternoon-only reading of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder, which John Martello kindly agreed to take on as a project for The...
Author Ed George closes out our 2023 bookstore events season with a reading and talk about his newest book, Starlight and Other Stories. We know George as a poet (and artist/musician). His new...
Come celebrate the 400th anniversary of the making of Shakespeare’s First Folio with Dr. Susan Willis, a Shakespeare scholar and former resident dramaturg for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF). The First Folio...
Burgin Mathews is our special guest on Sunday, January 21 at 3pm with his new book, Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America. Mathews is a multitalented...
Lee Farrow returns for the last talk in her series about the great nineteenth-century Russian writers — and, friends, hasn’t it been fabulous? The work of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky is...
We are thrilled to welcome Howell Raines to our store for a program about his newest book, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got...
February gives us the chance to welcome Kirk Curnutt to The NewSouth Bookstore for a program we’re calling “10 Things Alabamians Should Know About Zora Neale Hurston.” Join the chair of Troy...
The NewSouth Bookstore is delighted to host the next Nora’s Playhouse Salon South reading. Join us on Monday, February 12 at 7pm at the bookstore. Jacqueline Trimble directs They Must Be Women...
Our favorite biographer of Justice Hugo Black took a break from working on volume number two to write A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America. Steve...
Come by The NewSouth Bookstore on Friday, March 1, from 4pm to 7pm when we’ll gather with representatives from Read Freely Alabama for a community letter-writing campaign. We have a ninety-day window...
