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.

 

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...

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 States

Dr. 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 States

Join 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 States

Join 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 States

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,...

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...