Several author events of note coming up in the next couple of weeks at Square Books in Oxford. On Wednesday May 14th, they’ve got Ellen Gilchrist, and the next day they have Rick Bragg. On Monday May 19th, they have Nicholas Dawidoff.
Gilchrist is a Mississippian (she lives part of the year in Ocean Springs) fiction writer most known for The Land of Dreamy Dreams and Victory Over Japan. She’ll be here with her latest, A Dangerous Age. Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning former New York Times reporter. Bragg is here with The Prince of Frogtown, the last of three books of memoirs that began with All Over But the Shoutin’.
Dawidoff is here with The Crowd Sounds Happy. Regular readers of the New Yorker may have noticed his memoirs of growing up with a mentally unstable father. Based on those pieces and his earlier work (The Cather was a Spy for one), I’m probably most looking forward to that reading and really recommend it.
If you can’t make it to the readings, Square Books will get you a signed copy and even ship it to you.
Thanks for the heads-up on the signings at Square Books, NMC. I’m a big fan of Ellen Gilchrist’s writing, and am happy to hear she’s still producing.
I love her first book of poetry, The Land Surveyor’s Daughter. Great stuff.