Blanchett is a fan of Hough’s writing, commenting: “Lauren’s perspective on the world at large is so startling that one can’t unsee, unhear or unread it. Her writing is a bugle call for the human spirit. Much like the woman herself. My conversations with Lauren over the last several years have been honest, raw and sidesplittingly funny, and I treasure her friendship and her penship beyond measure. It’s been a journey, indeed, from first reading her tweets and articles through to ingesting the galleys for Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing. But speaking her words aloud was perhaps the greatest revelation of all. I well understood Lauren’s hypnotic power as a storyteller, but in speaking her words, I truly understood the rhythmic heartbeat alive in every phrase. Aching to connect. Aching to be heard.”
The staff at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe pick their favorite books to read while social distancing
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. This is a book I wish I’d had as a kid. It’s a book I want all kids and…
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café Presents A Special Speakeasy Event With Karen Abbott, author The Ghosts of Eden Park
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café Presents A Special Speakeasy Event With Karen Abbott, author The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age…
Local Asheville Author Inspires Others to Connect with Nature by Hosting Impactful Workshop and Releasing Fifth Book
Award-winning author and business/life coach, Angie Mattson Stegall is presenting a 3-hour workshop, NOTES FROM NATURE, for business owners and professionals on Saturday, January 12, 2019, to teach and convey…
Singer Turns Song into Children’s Book ‘Fly Possum Fly’ Grant Maloy Smith to Appear in Asheville, 11/9
Do possums fly? They can, if you ask singer/songwriter Grant Maloy Smith, whose new song “Fly Possum Fly” is also a children’s Christmas storybook. Smith will sign copies of the…
The Music of Words — October 2018 by Carol Bjorlie “The Poet behind the cello”
I don’t know which I love more: words or music. I have played the ‘cello since I was 10 years old. A LONG time. I write poetry about music. I…
BRIDGE OF CLAY By #1 New York Times bestselling author Markus Zusak
Alfred A. Knopf is pleased to publish BRIDGE OF CLAY (On sale October 9, 2018 / $26.00), a novel 13 years in the writing from beloved international bestselling author Markus…
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s upcoming ‘ACCESSORY TO WAR: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military’ (on sale 9/11/18)
ACCESSORY TO WAR: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military By Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang Narrated by Courtney B. Vance “Indispensable and mind-blowing. . . . This…
A dark beauty of a book, “Providence” (on sale 6/19)
A propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller—from the acclaimed author of You, whose work Stephen King describes as “hypnotic and totally original” Best…