A DEEPER SOUTH: The Book Tour / 12-Stop Program
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with a little free shipping!
If you haven’t heard already, the official launch of A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road takes place on May 22 in Atlanta, Georgia. But it doesn’t end there—which I guess is why it’s called a “launch,” because it sets in motion an epic, 12-stop road trip across the southeast, with stops at some of the greatest independent bookstores in the land. And it all begins in the mecca of them all, Square Books, in Oxford, Mississippi, on 23 May.
The details about each stop are listed below. Please pre-order a copy of the book today through bookshop.org and get FREE SHIPPING all weekend!
Come out and join the tour!
THE BOOK TOUR
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 2024
LAUNCH
Atlanta History Center Midtown
Margaret Mitchell House
Intro by Tom Johnson, former President, CNN
Moderator: Adam Koplan, Director of Fine Arts, The Westminster Schools
7:00 PM
[N.B. This is at the Margaret Mitchell House in Midtown, not at the main AHC location in Buckhead.]
THURSDAY 23 MAY 2024
OXFORD, MS
Square Books
John T Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers and host of TrueSouth
5:30 PM
TUESDAY 28 MAY 2024
RALEIGH, NC
Quail Ridge Books
Tom Rankin, Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University
7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2024
ASHEVILLE, NC
Malaprops
Melanie Bianchi, author of The Ballad of Cherrystoke & Other Stories
6:00 PM
THURSDAY 30 MAY 2024
DURHAM, NC
Letters Bookshop
Bill Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
6:30 PM
TUESDAY 4 JUNE 2024
KNOXVILLE, TN
Church of the Good Shepherd, with Union Ave Books
The Right Rev. Brian Cole, Episcopal Bishop of East Tennessee
7:00 PM
THURSDAY 6 JUNE 2024
AUGUSTA, GA
The Book Tavern
Ehren Foley, Acquisitions Editor, USC Press
7:00 PM
FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024
SAVANNAH
E. Shaver
6:30 PM
WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE 2024
BIRMINGHAM
Thank You Bookshop
Chip Brantley, host of NPR’s White Lies podcast
7:00 PM
THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2024
NEW ORLEANS
Baldwin & Co.
6:00 PM
FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2024
WASHINGTON, DC
Politics and Prose
W. Ralph Eubanks, author of A Place Like Mississippi
7:00 PM
TUESDAY 18 JUNE 2024
RICHMOND, VA
Book People
7:00 PM
