I’m looking forward to visiting Pearl Wine Co. again next week for a tag-team reading with author Kent Wascom, whose new novel Secessia has won rave reviews.
When: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 7:00 – 8:00
Where: Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., New Orleans
The event’s sponsored by the indefatigable Candice Huber of Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop. Free and open to the public. Wine and food available and encouraged.
New Orleans is fortunate to have several terrific independent bookstores: Faulkner House Books, Octavia Books, Garden District Book Shop, Maple Street Book Shop, and Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop. They’re all great folks and great supporters of readers and writers.
Tomorrow, Saturday, May 9, we’re celebrating Independent Bookstore Day in N.O. with events at most of those places. (Yes, it’s one week later than the rest of the country, but we had a little thing called Jazz Fest last weekend.)
You can find me at Tubby & Coo’s after lunch. Get out and buy some books.
I’m looking forward to attending the grand opening celebration this weekend of Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop here in New Orleans. I’ll be signing books Sunday, November 2, from 1:00-2:00.
While bookstores are shutting down all over the country, New Orleans still manages to support four (and now five!) thriving independent shops: Faulkner House Books, Garden District Book Shop, Maple Street Book Shop, and Octavia Books. Tubby & Coo’s, opened by book-lover Candice Huber, is the newest addition to this list.
Besides these shops, New Orleans also supports half a dozen damn good (and dusty) used book shops, among them Beckham’s Bookshop, Dauphine Street Books, Librairie Book Shop, Blue Cypress Books, and Crescent City Books.
Truly impressive for a city this size.
Congrats and thanks to Candice and all the other bookstore owners and lovers in New Orleans.
Can I have a Who Dat?