First Tuesday Book Club, Uptown

February 7th, 2012

Join the First Tuesday Book Club!

*Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 6:00 P.M.: The club will discuss The Emperor of All Maladies. Siddhartha Mukherjee*s book is described as a “biography of cancer.”

*Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 6:00 P.M.: Gather with the club to discuss Tea Obrecht*s book, The Tiger’s Wife. ‘Stunning . . . a richly textured and searing novel.’ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

*Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 6:00 P.M.: Delve into the mystery of Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. ‘Long after the other 75 novels of suspense you*ve read this year merge in your memory, you*ll vividly recall this novel. Franklin has written not just a thriller of the first order, but a very fine novel, indeed.’ Richard Russo

Michael Jeffrey Lee, Uptown-Something in My Eye

February 8th, 2012

On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:00 P.M., Michael Jeffrey Lee will read from, discuss, and sign his short story collection, Something in My Eye.

John Barry at BSJ-Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

February 10th, 2012

John Barry, author of Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul, joins Maple Street Book Shop at Bayou St. John in the top floor of Fair Grinds (3122 Ponce de Leon) on Friday, February 10, 2012, 6:00 P.M.

“For 400 years, two fault lines have both defined and divided America: the proper relationship between church and state and the freedom of the individual versus the power of the state. Both these fault lines first opened with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by ‘reason of state,’ i.e., national security, and its perceived ‘will of God’ and the ‘ancient rights and liberties’ of individuals. In ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty award-winning and New York Times best-selling writer John M. Barry examines the opening of these fault lines and what he finds is as relevant today as it was in the 17th century. The Washington Post said Barry*s earlier book Rising Tide could ‘change the way we think.’ So can this one.”

February Story Times with Miss Maureen

February 11th, 2012

Miss Maureen appears at 10:00 A.M. at our Healing Center location and at 11:00 A.M. at our flagship store on Maple Street!

Feb 11th: The Valentine Bears by Eve Bunting, A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik, and possibly, if there’s time, I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg

Feb 18th: The Red Feather by Sherry ‘Leddy’ Milam and Gaston Goes to Mardi Gras by James Rice

Feb 25th: Grandpa Green by Lane Smith, Blackout by John Rocco, and Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell

Robert Jeanfreau, Uptown-The Story Behind Stone

March 3rd, 2012

Mr. Robert Jeanfreau, author of The Story Behind Stone, will be with us uptown on Saturday, March 3, 2012, 1:00-3:00 P.M. In The Story Behind Stone Jeanfreau gives us a tour of forty New Orleans monuments. Get a signed copy for your New Orleans history/culture buff!

Constance Adler, BSJ-My Bayou, New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover

March 8th, 2012

Maple Street Book Shop at Bayou St. John teams up with Swirl on March 8, 2012, 6:00 P.M. to host Constance Adler, author of My Bayou, New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover.

John Klingman, Uptown--New in New Orleans Architecture

March 8th, 2012

Professor John Klingman, the Richard Koch chair at the Tulane School of Architecture, is stopping by on Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6:00-8:00 P.M., to discuss and sign his book, New in New Orleans Architecture.

Kit Whol, Uptown--New Orleans Classic Brunches

March 10th, 2012

Isn’t your mouth watering already? Kit Whol will be with us at the flagship uptown on Saturday, March 10, 2012, 1:00-3:00 P.M., to sign New Orleans Classic Brunches. Some of us will be ticking off people on this year’s Christmas list already!

Ann Benoit, Uptown-Broussard's Restaurant and Courtyard Cookbook

March 24th, 2012

Ann Benoit will sign her book, Broussard’s Restaurant and Courtyard Cookbook, at our flagship store on Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1:00 to 3:00 P.M.

Broussard’s, a staple of the French Quarter, will be open on Mardi Gras with classic New Orleans fare. Miss Ann worked in concert with the Preuss family, owners of Broussard’s.

Reading My Father with Alexandra Styron, Uptown

April 10th, 2012

Alexandra Styron joins us at the flagship store, Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 6:00-8:00 P.M., to discuss her book, Reading My Father.

Reading My Father is the memoir of a childhood in an intellectually glittering, artistically engaged and emotionally precarious household. In this portrait, by turns tender and unsparing, we meet William Styron, the charming bon vivant undone by depression, the gifted and prolific writer whose long struggle to finish his final novel may have imperiled his sanity. Fluid and fascinating, dark and funny, Alexandra Styron*s book brings her father before us in all of his complexity, a literary lion, roaring his way through America’s post-war landscape.—Geraldine Brooks, author of March and People of the Book

Susan Haltom, Uptown-One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place

April 12th, 2012

Susan Haltom, author of One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place, joins MSBS Uptown, on Thursday, April 12, 6:00 P.M. She will discuss and sign her book.

‘This story of an iconic American writer and her relationship with her garden begins during the first boom in American home gardening and unfolds against the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with never-published archival images and stunning new color photographs of the restored Welty garden.’