September 17, 2012 - 10:57am
Because what teenager isn’t obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe? Catch the next installment in Kelly Creagh’s popular young-adult trilogy tomorrow, Tuesday, September 18th, at Carmichael’s Bookstore at 7pm.
I, like any other self-respecting sub-adult human, enjoyed a pronounced “Poe Phase” as I came of age. The dark and confusing subterranean world of adolescence finds a twisted and kindred soul in Edgar Allan Poe’s work – the Master of Symbolism. How can an awkward...
September 13, 2012 - 3:38pm
Thinking that attorneys-at-law are all ‘Law & Order?’ Think again. Louisvillian Beverly Detroy brings the remarkable relationship between two men to life with her new book ‘Fox & Dad.’ Join her tomorrow, September 14th, at Carmichael’s at 7pm.
I am here presented with a subject that feels somewhat like home base for me. A subject that I feel I have earned a certain amount of life expertise. I know know this. Therefore, it is impossible for me to write cohesively about my experiences. Not without a substantial...
August 31, 2012 - 11:53am
Local writer, Dianne Aprile, presents the new look book, ‘A Landscape and Its Legacy: The Parklands of Floyd’s Fork’ celebrating Louisville’s greenest and greatest natural city spaces. Catch her at Carmichael’s Bookstore tomorrow, Saturday, September 1st, at 4pm.
I am a city girl. Sort of. I am a city girl in the same way that the squirrels living my 100+ year-old Bradford Pear are city squirrels. I am a physical denizen of concrete and metal and brick and glass and asphalt. The whole shebang of sirens, disembodied human chatter and...
August 30, 2012 - 12:28pm
Hey, you know what I’ll be doing on Labor Day?? That’s right, no rest for the wear, folks. Whether you’ve bbq plans or not, stop by Carmichael’s Bookstore, tomorrow, August 31st, at 7pm as a merry band of essayists present the collection All the Livelong Day: Motif Anthologies, Volume 3.
I don’t really like talking about work. I am not my job. That which fills my purse (not) is so far from my passion, and the longer I labor for negligible pennies and wallow in high levels of cortisol, the more my mind wanders into quixotic gardens of outlandish fantasy. ...
August 29, 2012 - 11:54am
Signing her new book tonight, ‘Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life’, former reporter, Katya Cengel hits up Carmichael’s Bookstore for a sporting good time. See her tonight, Wednesday, August 29th, at 7pm.
There are some things that are just quintessentially American. Those quaint, collective stereotypes that we like to throw around for sentimentality’s sake. We all know they’re silly. Apple pie, front porch swings, those weird seasonal flavors of Lays potato chips,...
