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The Odyssey Bookshop was established in 1963, and serves both the general local community and the Mount Holyoke College community. With a goal of bringing readers and writers together, the bookstore’s literary event schedule includes more than one hundred events a year for adults and children—including author signings, book launch parties, book groups, workshops, and readings—which are attended by thousands of people annually.
Each semester the University of Idaho’s Creative Writing Program invites Distinguished Visiting Writers to teach a week-long intensive class and to give a public reading. Recent visitors include Maggie Nelson, Roger Reeves, Brian Evenson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Dorianne Laux, and Kate Zambreno.
The Studios of Key West was founded with the vision of bringing artists to the island, connecting them with local audiences and artists, and offering space for both to explore their creativity. Events include lectures, performances, and literary happy hours. Author readings take place at their attached bookstore, Books & Books at The Studios, which was founded by author Judy Blume.The Studios also grants up to 40 month-long residencies to artists and writers every year.
Photo by Nick Doll.
Read 2 Succeed @ Norco College is a college-wide reading program sponsored by the Wilfred J. Airey Library in partnership with various campus constituency groups and programs. Each fall and spring semester, a book is selected to be the focus of a college-wide read that involves our students, faculty, classified professionals, administrators, and local community members. Read 2 Succeed events include a book discussion, student panel, and speaking engagement with a book signing by the author of the book. Refreshments and book-related giveaways are provided at all events.
Magers & Quinn is an independently owned new and used bookseller located in the heart of the popular Uptown neighborhood in Minneapolis, near the lakes for which the city is famous. Its main location in Uptown has been in operation since 1994, when Denny Magers moved his smaller bookstore, All Books, from its location near the University of Minnesota to Hennepin Avenue and gave the store its current name. It is now one of the largest independent bookstores in the midwest and hosts several literary events throughout the year.
The 1,100-seat Cullen Theater hosts smaller opera and ballet productions and serves as the venue for the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, a nationally-renowned series that has featured more than 300 of the world’s most accomplished literary writers. Its intimate size is ideal for solo artists, chamber music, and small touring shows and recitals.
Located in the heart of downtown Evanston, Illinois, Bookends & Beginnings opened in June 2014 in the space formerly occupied by legendary antiquarian store Bookman’s Alley. They offer new, used, and bargain books, unique gift items, and literary events.
The Moonstone Arts Center promotes creative exchange through diverse cultural programs. Each year Moonstone produces over 200 public events including poetry, author appearances, music, theater, and film at our location in Center City, Philadelphia. They also organize collaborative programs such as Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father and John Brown: 150 Years Later. One of their most successful annual programs is Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Read, seven hours of poetry, food, and conversation with poetry lovers from around the area during Poetry Month in April.
SubText is a general interest bookstore with special focus on fiction, poetry, history, and literary non-fiction. Events include author talks, readings, and book signings.
City Lights Bookstore is in Sylva, North Carolina, on a Main Street town tucked in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Their goal is to share the literature of the region with the world, and the world of books with their community.
Selling new and used books, cards, gifts, journals, maps, and more since 1985.
