NewSouth Bookstore

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.

 

The Best of the Shortest group talk and signing

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Reading of Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Ed George with Starlight and Other Stories

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Burgin Mathews with Magic City

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Dr. Lee Farrow’s Third Talk on Great 19th-Century Russian Writers

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Dr. Kirk Curnutt presents on the works of Zora Neale Hurston

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Read Freely Alabama community letter-writing campaign!

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

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...

Ilyon Woo talk with Master Slave Husband Wife

The NewSouth Bookstore 105 S Court St, Montgomery, AL, United States

Ilyon Woo is our incredibly special guest on Tuesday, March 5 at 5:30pm for a talk about Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom. The program will be...