For fans of Charleston culture
Woof Gang will host a book signing for author Tracy M. Graley. Her book Olive The Rescue Dachshund is a story about the power of kindness, resilience, and self-worth.
Woof Gang will also have a holiday backdrop available for pups and their people to use, with a QR code for donations to Charleston Animal Society.
See you there! 341 King Street
Blue Bicycle Books Courtyard
420 King Street
October 18, 5:30 pm
Blue Bicycle Books presents A Renkl in Two Weeks' Time
Wed., Oct. 18, 5:30 pm, New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl will be in the courtyard for her new devotional The Comfort of Crows (Spiegel & Grau, 288 pp.,$32).
In 52 chapters, each with original color illustrations, Renkl follows the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief.
This event is presented by the Charleston Natural History Society (formerly the Charleston Audubon Society).
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The Boutique Charleston at 302 King Street presents three local authors/artists this Sunday. Jack Alterman is a Charleston native and local photographer with two books, My City and and My Lazy Eye. Both books capture his unique perspective of people and places, with local and global focuses respectively.
Virginia Beach’s book, Rice and Ducks, weaves the beautiful history of the Carolina rice lands. All proceeds go toward the protection of the northern breeding grounds and protection of migratory bird habitats in the Carolina Lowcountry.
Richard Hagerty’s, American Surrealist, it’s chock-full of his stunning dream-based watercolors produced over a series of decades. His most notable pieces are featured on silk scarves, also available for sale that day.
Speaking of Charleston’s own Evening Post Books, The'll give away free copies of 62 Famous Houses with every book purchased at their Society and King “store”. Popular gift titles will be on hand, such as Gullah Cuisine, Seven Days on the Santee Delta, Rice & Ducks, New Charleston Cuisine and more!
Sign up! Ok so it’s not lunch at Halls Signature Events to meet the author, but it’s a supremely topical book from a renowned author and you can join the discussion.
Remember the lessons of the pandemic. Watch for the silver linings. Be thoughtful in your holiday gifting. Build back better.
1. Give books for the holidays!
2. Buy them from your local bookstore or Bookshop.org
3. Return to Step 1 until your list is complete!
Free Shipping today! Okay, that’s not “every” day, but it’s a great deal. All orders can be gift wrapped with a custom message on the card! The bookstore you select will receive the full profit margin from your purchase.
Now on to your favorite downtown holiday thing:
2-Hours Free Parking Downtown
Even homebound you have to clean up every once in a while. Here’s the place for all good smelling things and gifts and made-in-Charleston!
Old Whaling Co., now with three retail locations in downtown Charleston and a hefty online catalog as well. We love every single thing!
We love whimsy, happy go lucky, playful designs. This guy…
Davis Foster Designs
Your child/grandchild happens to be an artist. Just ask Daniel Buchmeier, who’s Shmooka turns each child-crafted creation into forever art.
Shmooka
How cool is this… playing cards! Charleston’s queen of lowcountry sky, winding waterways, and colorful marshland, Blakely Little has added fun to her portfolio. Lowcountry Five Card Stud anyone?
Literally PACKED with Charleston!
Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon.
Austin Kleon is a master at creativity, offers a great weekly newsletter on all kinds of topics, and wrote the provocatively-titled Steal Like an Artist. It’s classic and you can read about it here.
As we said in a recent post, Bookshop.org is a really great way to get your books (sweet discount included), benefit a local bookstore and keep reading at home where you’re safer from Covid.
Namely, Buxton Books on King Street
We’re pretty darn sure he's the one that told us about Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. So it’s win-win. The book, the bookstore, sleeping well and plotting your creative moves.
We love win/win. Reading is like that; so is supporting local independent bookstores of which we have two in Charleston and more in the region. While COVID 2020 is trying to wreck the economy, here comes Bookshop.org. With that brilliant site, you can order pretty much any book and designate your bookseller. The book is sent to you via USPS (we love them too) Media Mail, usually with a sweet discount, and your bookseller gets a nice “bump”.
Example, a trusted book buddy recommended The Witch Elm, recently out in paperback, by Tana French, available for $14.29 from Amazon. I went to the Bookshop.org page, entered Witch Elm in the search box, picked a King Street bookstore, (both Blue Bicycle Books and Buxton Books have Bookshop.org pages), and by the end of the week was reading this highly praised can’t-put-it-down novel. Blue Bicycle Books made $5.10 on my purchase, not a huge impact on their operating cost but a much larger margin than if they had offered an Amazon link. I paid just $1.35 more for the book but feel really good about my local independent bookstore purchase. Imagine if we all bought our books that way.
Now about Audible. I have 277 titles in my Audible Library and have loved listening in the car, in line at the DMV, in the middle of the night when I don't want to light up a blue screen. When Amazon bought Audible in 2008 it gave them the capital to do some really great promotions and productions. It's online but it's not free. Here's where Charleston County Public Library comes to the rescue with a huge inventory of audiobooks. All you need is a library card and their Libby App. Done!
Lori Gottlieb, NY Times Bestselling author of
"Maybe You Should Talk
to Someone," at Charleston Author Series Friday, March 27th
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, nationally recognized journalist, and weekly Dear Therapist columnist for The Atlantic. She blends her clinical experience with the latest research and cultural developments to help people live better lives.
On March 27th at Halls Signature Events at 5 Faber Street in downtown Charleston, you'll enjoy three courses by Hall's Executive Chef Robyn Guisto, a full service cash bar, excellent company and a discussion of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
Gottlieb will be in conversation with Claire Bidwell Smith, Charleston resident and author of The Rules of Inheritance. Smith is an author and a grief therapist, whose mission is to broaden the conversation about grief and loss and help our culture reach a healthier understanding of death.
Luncheon Tickets are $64 and include a signed copy of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Books provided by Charleston's own Blue Bicycle Books. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with the author.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria.
In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic's weekly Dear Therapist advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times and many other publications. She is also a TED speaker, a member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change to Mind and advisor to the Aspen Institute.
A contributing writer for The Atlantic, she has written hundreds of articles related to psychology and culture, many of which have become viral sensations. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, CNN, and NPR's Fresh Air.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist's couch and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable new book, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training, her most significant credential is that she's a card-carrying member of the human race. I know what it is like to be a person, she writes, as a crisis causes her world to come crashing down.
Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients lives, a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys (even one from the waiting room)she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb reveals our blind spots, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
REVIEWS
"An addictive book that's part Oliver Sacks and part Nora Ephron. Prepare to be riveted."
--- People Magazine, Book of the Week
"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." --- Kirkus, starred review
"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book." --- Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Huffington Post
"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing." --- Katie Couric
"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. If you have even an ounce of interest in the conundrum of being human, you must read this book." --- Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet.
"Gottlieb is an utterly compelling narrator: funny, probing, surprising, savvy, vulnerable. She pays attention to the small stuff, the box of tissues and the Legos in the carpet, as she honors the more expansive mysteries of our wild, aching hearts." Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering.
