Curbside Serenade
The Sound at NewSouth: We’ll be curbside for an afternoon of melody-making featuring the diverse talents of local vocal artists/musicians and friends Toni Wood, Katie Kalahar, Larry Gobrecht, Mike Keeling, Tony Castaldo, Don...
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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.
Fergus Bordewich Book Talk: Klan War
The NewSouth Bookstore is offsite at the Civil Rights Memorial Center on October 18 at 5:30pm, partnering on a talk with Fergus Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle...
Halloween Movie Night!
It wouldn’t be Halloween without kids and a little Hocus Pocus. Yes, we have that great book for sale, but we also have a fun event planned which includes screening of the...
Part II of Great 19th-Century Russian Writers Talk w/ Dr. Lee Farrow
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesDr. Lee Farrow returns to The NewSouth Bookstore for a second talk in a series about the great 19th-century Russian writers. She will continue discussing the theme of the “superfluous man” in...
Julie Williams with Wings of Opportunity
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesJoin us for a fun National Aviation Month presentation with award-winning historian Julie Hedgepeth Williams. Her book Wings of Opportunity describes a lesser-known chapter of the Wright brothers’ history, which began in 1910 when...
Kent Quaney and Company Reading from New Works
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesJoin us for an evening of readings from works in progress with Kent Quaney and friends. We celebrated the release of Quaney’s One Breath from Drowning last year. Come listen to a reading from...
Foster Hirsch with Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesWe 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,...
The Best of the Shortest group talk and signing
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesContributors 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...
Reading of Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThe 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...
Ed George with Starlight and Other Stories
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesAuthor 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...
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio with Dr. Susan Willis
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesCome 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 with Magic City
The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United StatesBurgin 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...