Jump to navigation Skip to content
In this Books Are Magic event, Greg Marshall reads from his debut memoir, Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It (Abrams Press, 2023), and discusses what inspires his writing with author Chloé Cooper Jones. Marshall is featured in Literary MagNet in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In the foreword to Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology, published by Sarabande Books this week, editor Joy Priest recounts driving from Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Houston at the height of the pandemic in the summer of 2020. At one point she stops in Richmond, Virginia, and drives down Monument Avenue with “its parade of Confederate statues lining the street’s median,” and later, in Louisville, Kentucky, notes how “the streets were filled with smoke, flash-bangs, and tear gas, not just over the murder of George Floyd but also over the murder of one of our own by Louisville police: Breonna Taylor.” Write an essay structured around a road trip in which the places you visit are central to the essay’s subject. Consider the history of the places you have visited as well as the encounters you have had there.
For nineteen years, McNally Jackson's flagship store, which opened in 2004, was located at 52 Prince Street and is now a few blocks west at 134 Prince Street. The larger space opened in early 2023 and features a wide selection of books and a bustling café. The bookstore is open daily from 10:00AM to 8:00PM. McNally Jackson Books has five locations, three in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn.
This bookstore is the second location of More Than Words, an independent nonprofit youth-run bookstore supporting and empowering young adults who are in the foster care system, court-involved, houseless, or out of school. Donations of books and clothing are accepted, and the bookstore also hosts author events and can be rented out for events. Visitors can browse and purchase books, gifts, and music. Their flagship location is in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, More Than Words is an independent nonprofit youth-run bookstore supporting and empowering young adults who are in the foster care system, court-involved, houseless, or out of school. Donations of books and clothing are accepted, and the bookstore also hosts author events. Visitors can browse and purchase books, gifts, and music. There is a second location in the South End neighborhood of Boston.
Buxton Books, an independent bookstore in Charleston, South Carolina, offers a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction books, and works by South Carolina Lowcountry authors, including signed copies. Additionally, they carry books about Charleston’s history and culture, including The Ghosts of Charleston by owner Julian Buxton, which inspired walking ghost tours in the city based on its stories. Buxton Books hosts readings with authors from local to legendary and is open daily from 10:00 AM to 9:30 PM.
“I had to learn through writing the book how to discipline my creativity so that I could write whenever and wherever I needed to.” —Stacy Jane Grover, author of Tar Hollow Trans
In her installment of our Ten Questions series, Emma Cline talks about the imagery that first inspired her latest novel, The Guest (Random House, 2023). “The first time I saw an East Coast beach, I was so struck by the mildness of the landscape, a long stretch of dunes and the warm water and mint grasses. It looked surreal to my California eye, and I knew I wanted to write about that landscape,” says Cline. Can you recall visiting a landscape that felt entirely new to you? Write an essay that offers details of this place and your experience with it. Try to identify the feelings it conjured in you and what made it feel new.
