Greensboro Bound

Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward
2022-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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With KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers, but something else is found in the process of loss, in the process of writing, and in the process of thinking about loved ones. These are powerful looks at how vital an engagement with a difficult past becomes to a hopeful future. As a bonus, moderator CASEY CEP has a prominent role in one book’s reengagement with life.
You may also be interested in:
• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir
• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone
• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing
• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen
• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith
KATHYRN SCHULZ is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
ALEXIS ORGERA is a poet-writer, book editor, and publisher living in North Carolina. She’s the author of two poetry collections in addition to Head Case: My Father, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press, December 2021). Her work can be found in literary magazines like the Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Indianapolis Review, Interim, Massachusetts Review, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, and elsewhere.

CASEY CEP is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and is available in paperback, hardcover, as an e-book, and as an audiobook

Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice
2022-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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Sounding Bodies presents a powerful model of how the seemingly disparate disciplines of philosophy and voice/speech training can, in conversation with each other, generate illuminating insights about our vocal lives and identities. Utilising the framework of feminist philosophy, authors Ann J. Cahill and Christine Hamel approach the phenomenon of voice as a lived, sonorous and embodied experience marked by the social structures that surround it, including systemic forms of injustice such as ableism, sexism, racism, and classism. By developing novel theoretical constructs such as “intervocality” and “respiratory responsibility,” Cahill and Hamel cut through the static between theory and praxis and put forward exciting theories on how human vocal sound can perpetuate — and challenge — persistent inequalities. With ANN CAHILL, CHRISTINE HAMEL, and TONA BROWN. Hosted by AUDREY SMITH.
You may also be interested in:
• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen
• The Truth about Disability: What We Don’t Talk About
• A Musical Thriller: Brendan Slocumb and Tona Brown in Conversation

ANN CAHILL is Professor of Philosophy at Elon University, US, and the author of Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics (2010) and Rethinking Rape (2001). Her research interests lie in the intersection between feminist theory and philosophy of the body, and she has published on topics such as miscarriage, beautification and sexual assault.
CHRISTINE HAMEL currently serves as head of the BFA Acting Program at Boston University School of Theatre where she is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting. She is a professional actor, voice/dialect coach, and director whose credits include work on Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre. A Designated Linklater Voice Teacher certified in the Michael Chekhov acting technique, she founded Femina Shakes, an initiative committed to feminist interpretations of Shakespeare exploring a wide range of gender identities unconstrained by the limitations of conventional gender narratives.
TONA BROWN Vocalist, violinist, entrepreneur, and teacher Tona Brown has an international performance career throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe as a violinist and mezzo-soprano. Ms. Brown is also an advocate for transgender issues in the arts, often speaking and performing at colleges and universities. She is the first transgender woman of color to perform the National Anthem for a sitting President at the LGBT Leadership Gala Dinner for former President Barack Obama at the Sheraton in NYC. She is also the first transgender woman to headline at Carnegie Hall in a program of African-American composers with an all-inclusive LGBT cast of performers. Ms. Brown graduated from the Governor’s School for the Arts, a prestigious high school for gifted and talented students. She was formally educated at the Shenandoah University and Conservatory of Music, studying violin performance with minors in viola, piano, and voice. For Shenandoah University’s 2021 production of “Suor Angelica”, she recorded an opera movie, playing the role of La Zia Principessa. Ms. Brown will be performing in a lead transgender role as Hannah After in the opera “As One” by Laura Kaminsky with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Orlando Cela in the fall of 2021. Ms. Brown was also asked to do a masterclass on Transgender Voices by the Virginia National Association of Teachers. She teaches private lessons to students with her company Aida Studios.
AUDREY SMITH is a nonfiction writer and a producer for North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Oregon State University and a Master’s degree in Secondary English Language Arts Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Audrey is a producer of Embodied, WUNC’s radio show and podcast about sex, relationships, and health, and is a bookseller at Scuppernong Books.

Journalism and Activism
2022-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 | International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 134 SElm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
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Journalists and writers from different backgrounds discuss the importance of engaging equity, criminal justice, and community. The press, and citizen journalists, provide witness on systemic issues impacting local communities. A conversation with TESSIE CASTILLO, TARA T. GREEN, and LYNDEN HARRIS. Hosted by JOE KILLIAN. This panel is in partnership with the PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter. **The ICRCM requires all guests to wear face coverings. View policy under “Museum Protocols”.** 4/5/22
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• Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action
• An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Images of Justice and Power
• Truth Tellers documentary presentation

TESSIE CASTILLO is an author, journalist and public speaker who specializes in stories on prison reform, drug policy, restorative justice, and racial equity. She is the editor of Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row, an original anthology of writings about the death penalty that features entries by Castillo as well as several current residents of North Carolina’s Death Row. In 2021 Crimson Letters was a finalist for the 2021 Eric Hoffer award for excellence in small press publishing and Castillo received the Victor Hassine Memorial Scholarship at American University for using creative work to educate the public on criminal justice issues. Tessie Castillo lives in Durham, North Carolina with her daughter. To see more of her writings or to request a speaking engagement with her and her co-authors, visit www.tessiecastillo.com.
TARA T. GREEN is an award-winning scholar and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She is the author and editor of six books, including Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era. She is from the suburbs of New Orleans.
LYNDEN HARRIS is the founder of Hidden Voices, a radically inclusive, participatory, and co-creative collective committed to a more just and compassionate world. For twenty years, Lynden has collaborated with underrepresented communities to create award-winning works that combine narrative, performance, mapping, music, digital media, and interactive exhibits. During her decades facilitating community connections, Lynden developed a participatory workshop model to empower change through collective visioning and collaborative action. This process facilitates a dynamic exchange between documentary, art, and community that allows for a multiplicity of voices and a multiplexity of understandings. The former Artistic Director of ArtsCenter Stage, Lynden was a founding Cultural Agent for the US Department of Arts and Culture and member of the MAP Fund Class of 2017 for Serving Life: ReVisioning Justice. Lynden is a 2020-21 Fellow with A Blade of Grass, the 2020 recipient of the Ann Atwater Theater Award, and the 2020 North Carolina Playwriting Fellow. Her music theater work-in-development, A GOOD BOY, is currently a semifinalist for the National Music Theater Conference. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW: Life Stories from America’s Death Row was published by Duke University Press in 2021.
JOE KILLIAN is a senior investigative reporter at N.C. Policy Watch. His work takes a closer look at government, politics and policy in North Carolina and their impact on the lives of everyday people. Before joining Policy Watch, Joe worked in daily newspapers for more than a decade covering cops, courts, local and state government, congressional campaigns and national political conventions. He has worked at the Bristol Press in Bristol, Connecticut; The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and The News & Record in Greensboro, NC. His work has appeared in daily and weekly papers, magazines and digital-first publications across the state and country. He is currently working on a book about the politicization of the North Carolina’s public university system.

Sponsored by PEN America NC Piedmont Chapter

Eating & Drinking Together: How Food Shapes Culture
2022-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 | Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
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JULIA SKINNER and MARCIE COHEN FERRIS are both food historians and they bring deep understanding of the role of food and drink in our past and in our present. Each author examines how culinary excellence, entrepreneurship, and the struggle for racial justice converge in shaping food equity. Hosted by TAL BELVINS
DR. JULIA SKINNER is passionate about what we eat and the stories behind it. She uses her broad-ranging background, from libraries to kitchens to visual art and even city bus driving to help us understand our food. She is the author of Our Fermented Lives: A History of How Fermented Foods Have Shaped Cultures & Communities. She also owns Root, Atlanta’s fermentation and food history company offering classes, consulting, and other services worldwide. Julia’s writing has appeared in a number of national and regional outlets, as well as in scholarly journals, and she writes and illustrates a weekly newsletter on food issues. Julia is an avid fermenter, regularly brewing and pickling whatever she can get her hands on, as well as working with wild plants in her garden. You can follow her work at @rootkitchens or @bookishjulia.
MARCIE COHEN FERRIS, author of The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region and Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, is professor emerita of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
TAL BLEVINS is the owner of MACHETE, a James Beard-nominated restaurant in Greensboro, NC.

Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith
2022-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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Join us for a conversation about the pleasures and challenges of writing memoir. When mining material from their own lives, how do writers decide what to include and what to let go? How much (or little) are family members and friends included in the research and writing? We’ll also talk about the role of humor in memoir and how these writers approach memoir differently from (or similarly to) the fiction they write. With ANN HOOD and JULIA RIDLEY SMITH. Hosted by MOLLY SENTELL HAILE.

You may also be interested in:
• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir
• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone
• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing
• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen
ANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer and The Book That Matters Most. Her memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, was a NYT Editors Choice and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Rhode Island and NYC.
JULIA RIDLEY SMITH is the author of a memoir, The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press, 2021). She’s published fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Ecotone, the New England Review, and Southern Cultures, and was recognized as notable in The Best American Essays. She has taught creative writing and literature at UNC Greensboro and is the 2021–22 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill.
MOLLY SENTELL HAILE is a writer and educator whose short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American, The North Carolina Literary Review, Epiphany, O. Henry Magazine, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and is a Pushcart and O. Henry Award nominee. Her work received a Notable designation in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s MFA in Creative Writing, she currently teaches creative writing classes for people with cancer, survivors, and caregivers at Hirsch Wellness Network in Greensboro and is at work on her first novel.

Beth Macy
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:45 | Union Square Auditorium, 124 E Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC, 27406
Greensboro Bound presents BETH MACY, author of Raising Lazarus and Dopesick, in partnership with Cone Health and Scuppernong Books.

Due to limited seating rsvp is requested. Please note: **RSVPs over venue capacity will be placed on standby and you will be notified.**

Raising Lazarus is the crucial next installment in the story of the defining disaster of our era, one that touches every single one of us, whether directly or indirectly. A complex story of public health, big pharma, dark money, politics, race, and class that is by turns harrowing and heartening, infuriating and inspiring, Raising Lazarus is a must-read for all Americans.
Available for purchase from our independent bookseller partner, Scuppernong Books.
BETH MACY is a Virginia-based journalist, the author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, and an executive producer and cowriter on Hulu’s Peabody Award-winning “Dopesick” series.

Simon & Schuster AuthorFest - JOHN IRVING & JASON REYNOLDS
2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:00 | ZOOM
Join us on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 7:00 PM EST for a conversation with New York Times bestselling authors JOHN IRVING and JASON REYNOLDS, moderated by Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.

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Books can be purchased from our independent bookseller partner Scuppernong Books.

JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics… The Last Chairlift In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.

JASON REYNOLDS is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He’s also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; Stamped; As Brave as You; For Every One; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy, in the Meantime; Ain’t Burned All the Bright, and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both co-written with Jason Griffin); and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now…Ain’t Burned All the Bright Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW. And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you’ll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.

WHAT IS AUTHORFEST?
Each season Simon & Schuster partners with book festivals nationwide to present insightful panel discussions between celebrated authors.

WHO IS FEATURED?
The Fall 2022 AuthorFest Event will feature New York Times bestselling authors John Irving and Jason Reynolds. Both legendary authors are famous for crafting thought-provoking stories about the expression of self-identity through explorations of race, class, and sexuality.

Soman Chainani at Scuppernong Books
2022-11-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
In advance of his Authors Engaging Students program visits with Guilford County Schools Library Media Services, New York Times Bestselling middle grade author SOMAN CHAINANI will be stopping by Scuppernong Books!
Join Soman at Scup for a live in-person event and signing, Sunday, November 3 at 2:00PM! The movie adaptation of his The School for Good and Evil series releases on Netflix on October 19…don’t miss your chance to meet the author and read the bestselling series that started it all!

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SOMAN CHAINANI’s debut series, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL, has sold more than 3 million copies, been translated into 30 languages across six continents, and will be a major motion picture from Netflix in 2022, starring Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, and Michelle Yeoh.
His anthology of retold fairytales, BEASTS & BEAUTY, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, his seventh book in a row to do so, and is slated to be a limited television series from Sony 3000. Together, his books have been on the New York Times Bestseller List for 44 weeks.
A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s MFA Film Program, Soman has been nominated for the Waterstone Prize for Children’s Literature, been named to the Out100, and also received the $100,000 Shasha Grant and the Sun Valley Writer’s Fellowship, both for debut writers.
His latest novel, RISE OF THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL, kickstarts a new series under his EverNever World brand. Follow Soman on Instagram @somanc

Cooks with Books: André Darlington Book Launch
2022-11-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Machete, 600 C Battleground Avenue, Greensboro, NC, 27401
Join MACHETE restaurant and SCUPPERNONG BOOKS for the launch of award-winning food and beverage author ANDRÉ DARLNGTON’s latest book BarMenu:100+ Drinking Food Recipes for Cocktail Hours at Home.

This 1 1/2 hour event will feature a cocktail and snack pairing, as well as an opportunity to mingle with André Darlington, who will be signing books and answering questions.
This is a community table event with limited seating for 32 in the front lounge at MACHETE—so get your tickets early to reserve your spot! Be sure to add the number of books you wish to include when you purchase your ticket (one book purchase required per couple). You will also be able to order additional cocktails and snacks at the event if desired, as well as additional copies of Bar Menu for yourself or for gifting. You may also make a separate reservation after 7:15p if you wish to have a full dining experience after the book signing.
•Event ticket: $25/person
•Book: $28 (one book purchase required per couple)
•taxes & 22% gratuity will be added at check-out
Because alcoholic beverages will be served, this event is reserved for those 21 years of age and over.

ANDRÉ DARLNGTON is the bestselling author of Booze Cruise: A Tour of the World’s Essential Mixed Drinks and Gotham City Cocktails: Official Handcrafted Food & Drinks From the World of Batman, as well as The Official John Wayne Cocktail Book (Nov 1, ‘22) and Bar Menu (Oct 18, ‘22) . He is co-author of Booze & Vinyl, Booze & Vinyl Vol. 2, The New Cocktail Hour, and TCM’s Movie Night Menus. André has been a columnist for Organic Life magazine, a contributor to Mandarin Quarterly, as well as the alt-weekly, Isthmus, where he was an award-winning food critic and wine columnist. In 2016 he opened the lauded farm-to-table restaurant and natural wine bar, Field Table, designed by JBF award-winning architects, Heliotrope. André has been a Napa Valley Vintners’ Association Fellow and a judge for the international wine competition, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, as well as for the American Craft Distillers Association. He is a frequent guest speaker for companies, non-profits, and clubs such as Google, The Smithsonian, ThinkCompany, and Park House Dallas.
MACHETE is a 2022 James Beard semifinalist for Best New Restaurant. “Simple perfection and casual professionalism are our objectives, and we aim to delight and arouse the senses without being pretentious. We source the best ingredients locally and from around the world to fulfill our vision of creating distinctive, delicious, beautiful comfort food and cocktails. Our philosophy is that food should not only be delicious, it should also be creative, evoke memories, and be a communal experience to catch up with old friends and make new ones. We encourage you to have fun, laugh, and enjoy everyone around you.”

An Evening with Marlon James
2023-04-13 19:00 - 20:30
Greensboro Bound, in generous partnership with the UNCG University Libraries, is pleased to announce AN EVENING WITH MARLON JAMES. Join host Sara Graybeal as she talks with Marlon about his literary craft. Submit questions for the author at the registration link.
Marlon James is the author of five novels and his short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies and journals. His latest work, Moon Witch, Spider King is the second in his Dark Star Trilogy. The first was Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the final will be titled White Wing, Dark Star.
Born in Jamaica, James attended the University of the West Indies and later Wilkes University in Pennsylvania where he received a Master’s Degree in creative writing. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and teaches English and creative writing at Macalester College. In 2018 Marlon James received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In April 2019 he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019 in the Pioneers category. READ MORE ABOUT MARLON
This event is made possible by the UNCG University Libraries, Greensboro Bound, The Greensboro Review, the UNCG Department of African American & Diaspora Studies, and the UNCG Department of Library & Information Science.

Italy On a Plate, an afternoon with Susan Gravely
2023-05-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
Join Greensboro Bound and Well-Spring Retirement Community as we welcome author and founder of Vietri dinnerware SUSAN GRAVELY! This event will also feature a display of Vietri dinnerware, courtesy of The Extra Ingredient. Book signing will follow the conversation with Susan.
SUSAN GRAVELY is the Founder and the CEO of VIETRI, Inc., a lifestyle brand of Italian artisan-crafted dinnerware and home and garden accessories. VIETRI was founded in 1983 by Lee Gravely and her daughters, Susan and Frances, after a family trip to Italy where they fell in love with the colorful hand painted Italian dinnerware of the Amalfi Coast.
VIETRI is now America’s largest Italian ceramics importing company, partnering with numerous Italian manufacturers in various regions throughout Italy. VIETRI serves a customer base of over 2,000 specialty retailers and department stores in all 50 states and internationally. Susan has written several children’s Christmas books and her first cookbook, Italy on a Plate, shares lively stories and delectable recipes that are as warm and inviting as the many meals she’s hosted for friends and strangers alike. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband, Bill, and dog, Franco. READ MORE ABOUT SUSAN

This event is sponsored by: Well-Spring Retirement Community and Vietri

2023 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
2023-05-18 - 2023-05-20
VIEW EVENTS: https://events.greensborobound.com/

2nd Annual Downtown Greenway Community Picnic
2023-07-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Downtown Greenway, near the corner of MLK Jr Drive and Bragg Street
July is National Parks & Recreation Month, and the theme for 2023 is “Where Community Grows” – what better way to celebrate community than by gathering with friends and family for a good ol’ pig pickin’ outdoors!
Action Greensboro and Greensboro Parks and Recreation are excited to announce the 2nd Annual Downtown Greenway Community Picnic!
Join us for an afternoon pig pickin’ with the most famous pit master in North Carolina, Ed Mitchell, who recently published a new cookbook alongside his son, Ryan Mitchell.
Enjoy delicious whole-hog barbeque fresh off the smoker, along with classic southern sides and dessert provided by downtown Greensboro restaurant, ‘cille & ‘scoe. Greensboro songwriter, Colin Cutler, will provide live music, while local speaker, Ivey Ghee, serves as emcee and conversation partner with Ed and Ryan. Hardcover copies of Ed Mitchell’s Barbeque can be purchased online from Scuppernong Books, and they will be offering on-site book sales at the picnic.

This event has limited capacity – don’t delay, and purchase your tickets today!

$40 for adults
$20 for children 12 & under

This collaborative event is made possible thanks to Greensboro Parks & Recreation and Greensboro Bound. All proceeds will support free community programming offered year-round along the Downtown Greenway.
Questions? For more information, please contact Chelsea Phipps at chelsea.phipps(at)greensboro-nc.gov, or Dabney Sanders at dsanders(at)actiongreensboro.org

Jeanette Walls
2023-07-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Congregational Church of Christ, 400 W Radiance Drive, Greensboro
Scuppernong Books presents New York Times Bestselling author JEANNETTE WALLS.

HANG THE MOON
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out.
Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger.
You will fall in love with Sallie Kincaid, a feisty and fearless, terrified and damaged young woman who refuses to be corralled.

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
“A rip-roaring, action-packed novel set during prohibition filled with head-spinning plot twists and enough dead bodies, doomed romances, and sudden betrayals to make you wonder if George R.R. Martin had decided to ditch fantasy for Southern Gothic.” —The New York Times
“A propulsive read. Hang the Moon goes down easy… like the forbidden whisky that defines the life of Sallie Kincaid.” —Associated Press
“Jeannette Walls’s masterwork… a thrill ride through Prohibition and change in the American south… Glorious.” —The Washington Post

JEANNETTE WALLS graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.

A Booze & Vinyl Christmas, with André Darlington
2023-12-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Double Oaks Bed and Breakfast, 204 N Mendenhall Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
André Darlington is BACK with another not-to-be-missed event!
This time he’s in the holiday spirit as Greensboro Bound joins with the Greensboro Public Library to celebrate A Booze & Vinyl Christmas— Merry Music-and-Drink Pairings to Celebrate the Season!
André will once again be entertaining us with cocktail-making techniques, tips, and tricks as local musician Randy Condor Williams entertains us with holiday tunes perfectly paired with your spirituous libation of choice.
Ticket includes:

one holiday cocktail (additional drinks will be available for purchase)
light hors d’oeuvres
entertaining cocktail tips from André
all the merry-making you can handle!

Copies of A Booze & Vinyl Christmas will be available for purchase and André will even sign your copy!
This event is presented by Greensboro Bound as part of the Greensboro Public Library’s One City, One Book event offerings. Be sure to check out the full listing of events on the Library’s events calendar.
**This is event is 21 and up.**

Diane Flynt, Southern Apples Lost and Found: The People & Places Behind 300 Years of Apples in the South
2024-02-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
Join Greensboro Bound, Well-Spring Retirement Community, and the Greensboro Public Library as we welcome DIANE FLYNT. A multiple-time James Beard Award finalist for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional, Flynt founded Foggy Ridge Cider in 1997 after leaving her corporate career and produced cider until 2018. She now sells cider apples from the Foggy Ridge orchards in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. READ MORE ABOUT DIANE.
A light reception and book signing will follow the conversation with Diane.

This event is free and open to the public, however, a reservation is required.

This event is presented as part of the Greensboro Public Library’s One City, One Book event offerings. Every other year, the Greensboro Public Library, along with the Greensboro Public Library Foundation and a host of community partners, sponsors the One City, One Book community read. This year’s selection is The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food, a collection of essays exploring our heritage through food-related stories set in North Carolina, edited by the late Randall Kenan. The library is hosting a series of events and book discussions related to the One City, One Book read. Be sure to check out the full listing of events on their events calendar.

Joshua Bennett
2024-04-11 19:00 - 20:00 | McNair Hall Auditorium, 1601 E Market St, Greensboro
North Carolina A&T State University’s F.D. Bluford Library in partnership with Greensboro Bound is pleases to present author, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion JOSHUA BENNETT, Thursday, May 11 at 7:00PM in the McNair Hall Auditorium. This event is FREE and open to the public however, registration is required.
JOSHUA BENNETT is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. He is the author of five books: Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023; The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and is currently being adapted for television in collaboration with Warner Brothers Studios; Owed (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the New England Book Award; Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.
Dr. Bennett earned his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has recited his original works at the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. He has also performed and taught creative writing workshops at hundreds of middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States, as well as in the U.K. and South Africa.
For his creative writing and scholarship, Joshua has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Alongside his friend and colleague, Dr. Jesse McCarthy, he is the founding editor of Minor Notes, a Penguin Classics book series dedicated to minor poets within the black expressive tradition. Joshua is also the founding editor of Life Studies: an MIT Press imprint which celebrates the relationship between poetic practice and literary criticism. He lives in Massachusetts with his family. LEARN MORE
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion. In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House “Poetry Jam” where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett’s young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. In this book, he goes back to its roots, considering the Black Arts movement and the prominence of poetry and song in Black education; the origins of the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the Lower East Side living room of the visionary Miguel Algarín, who hosted verse gatherings with legendary figures like Ntozake Shange and Miguel Piñero; the rapid growth of the “slam” format that was pioneered at the Get Me High Lounge in Chicago; the perfect storm of spoken word’s rise during the explosion of social media; and Bennett’s own journey alongside his older sister, whose work to promote the form helped shape spaces online and elsewhere dedicated to literature and the pursuit of human freedom. A celebration of voices outside the dominant cultural narrative, who boldly embraced an array of styles and forms and redefined what—and whom—the mainstream would include, Bennett’s book illuminates the profound influence spoken word has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from Broadway to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, schools, and rooms full of strangers all across the world.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.”
“Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists traversed and inhabited…an instructive text for young poets, artists or creative entrepreneurs trying to find a way to carve out a space for themselves…Shines with a refreshing dynamism.” —The New York Times

A Conversation with Joseph Crespino, author of ATTICUS FINCH, THE BIOGRAPHY
2024-05-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
Join Greensboro Bound for a book talk with JOSEPH CRESPINO, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon.

Who was the real Atticus Finch? Prize-winning historian Joseph Crespino reveals the man behind the legend. In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her books.
This conversation will take place Tuesday, May 14 from 6:00-7:00PM at the Greensboro History Museum prior to the 7:30PM showing of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Tanger Center.

Receive 10% off your To Kill a Mockingbird tickets here.

JAMES McBRIDE
2024-05-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Elliot University Center Auditorium, UNCG, 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412
This event is FREE and open to the public; however, registration is required.

We are pleased to announce our 2024 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival keynote author, award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter JAMES McBRIDE, Thursday, May 16 at the Elliot University Center on UNCG’s campus. This event is made possible through our continuing partnership with the UNCG University Libraries.
James McBride is an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, published in 1996, has sold millions of copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Considered an American classic, it is read in schools and universities across the United States.
His debut novel, Miracle at St. Anna, was turned into a 2008 film by Oscar-winning writer and director Spike Lee, with a script written by McBride.
His 2013 novel, The Good Lord Bird, about American abolitionist John Brown, won the National Book Award for Fiction and will be a Showtime limited series in fall 2020 starring Ethan Hawke.
McBride has been a staff writer for The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and The Washington Post, and his work has appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. His 2007 National Geographic story “Hip Hop Planet” is considered an important examination of African American music and culture.
A noted musician and composer, McBride has toured as a saxophonist sideman with jazz legend Jimmy Scott, among other musicians. He has written songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., Pura Fé, Gary Burton, and even for the PBS television character “Barney.” (He did not write the “I Love You” song for Barney, but he wishes he did.) He received the Stephen Sondheim Award and the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award for his musical Bobos, co-written with playwright Ed Shockley. His 2003 Riffin’ and Pontificatin’ musical tour was filmed for a nationally televised Comcast documentary. He has been featured on national radio and television in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He often does his public readings accompanied by a band.
In addition to being an author and a musician, McBride has other attributes. He admits to being the worst dancer in the history of African Americana, bar none (he claims he should be legally barred from dancing at any event he attends). And when he takes off his hat, fleas fly out. Little things, little talents.
A native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools, McBride studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his master’s degree at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. In 2015, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama “for humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America.” He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

ATTENTION BOOK CLUBS!
If you’re interested in reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store in preparation for James McBride’s event, the Greensboro Public Library can provide you with books!
Email Amanda Sanson the following info and she’ll hook up your book club!

your name, email address, and phone number
active library card number
book title
how many books you would like borrow (up to 15)
date range you would like to borrow the books
at which branch you would like to pick up your books
if you would also like audio books (not available for every title)

An Afternoon with Anne Byrn
2024-10-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
Please join us as we welcome New York Times-bestselling author Anne Byrn, just as her latest book, Baking in the American South, hits shelves.
“My new cookbook is a love letter to Southern baking, a legacy built by grandmothers, modern chefs, and Black women and men who pioneered these flavors,” Byrn points out. “It’s more than recipes — it’s stories, traditions and the taste of home baked with love. Get ready to savor the South through the baking that made it famous.”
Think Thomasville Cheese Biscuits, Church Ladies’ Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Martha Nesbit’s Blueberry Muffins, Demopolis Turtleback Cookies and much, much more!
Byrn will speak in Well-Spring’s Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre from 4-5 p.m., followed by a simple reception featuring treats from Byrn’s new book, prepared by Well-Spring’s renowned culinary team. Admission is free and open the public – we hope to see you!
We want to thank Scuppernong Books and Well-Spring for their support of this event.
NOTE: Garden & Gun magazine has just highlighted Byrn’s new book in its spread featuring “the year’s standout offerings” in cookbooks. CLICK HERE to read.

An Evening with JEFF VANDERMEER
2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Carolina Theatre, 310 S Greene Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Join acclaimed author Jeff VanderMeer for an unforgettable evening as he discusses Absolution, the surprise fourth installment of his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy.
Taking place on Wednesday, April 9, at 7:00 PM at the Carolina Theatre, this exclusive Greensboro Bound Year-Round event offers readers the chance to delve into VanderMeer’s imaginative world and celebrate the release of his new novel. Following the presentation, stay for a special screening of Annihilation, the acclaimed film adaptation of his first Southern Reach novel.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of the most visionary voices in contemporary fiction.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Author Heath Lee Reveals ‘The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon’
2025-04-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
In partnership with the Historical Book Club of North Carolina and Well-Spring, A Life Plan Community, please join us as we welcome award-winning historian and biographer Heath Hardage Lee, just as her latest book, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: Washington’s Most Private First Lady, debuts.
Heath’s narrative nonfiction book entitled The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home from Vietnam was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2019. Heath’s museum exhibition entitled The League of Wives: Vietnam POW MIA Advocates & Allies about Vietnam POW MIA wives premiered at the Dole Institute of Politics in May of 2017 and travelled to venues all over the United States through 2023. The League of Wives is currently being developed as a television series. Heath also writes about women’s history and politics for publications such as Time, The Hill, The Atlantic and White House History Quarterly. She currently serves on the Boards of FLARE the First Ladies Association for Research and Education and BIO Biographers International Organization. Heath’s new book The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: Washington’s Most Private First Lady is the first commercial biography of First Lady Pat Nixon in almost 40 years.
She will speak from 4-5 p.m. at Well-Spring’s Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, followed by a reception and book signing.
Admission is free and open to the public… we do ask that you register so that we have enough food for everyone.

Percival Everett (FULL/SOLD OUT)
2025-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Elliott University Center Auditorium, 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Due to overwhelming response, registrations for this event are closed.
The Greensboro Bound Book Festival is thrilled to announce an exciting lead-up event featuring New York Times best-selling author Percival Everett on May 15 at 7 p.m. This highly anticipated evening, presented in partnership with UNCG University Libraries, will feature Everett discussing his acclaimed novel James and his distinguished literary career. This kickoff event sets the stage for the all-day Greensboro Bound Book Festival happening in downtown Greensboro on May 17.
Everett, a celebrated and award-winning author, has captivated audiences with his thought-provoking and genre-defying works. His latest novel, James, a reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, has garnered widespread critical acclaim and cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary literature. Everett’s 2020 novel Telephone was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and James won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2024.
The event will take place in the Elliott University Center Auditorium on the UNCG campus. This exciting evening offers attendees the opportunity to hear from Everett firsthand as he delves into the themes of James, his writing process and his other works. A book signing will follow the discussion.
Due to overwhelming response, registrations for this event are closed.
Complimentary parking for all event attendees will be available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck (506 Stirling Street).

Speed Friending: Book Lovers Edition
2025-05-16 17:30 - 19:30 | LoFi Park Downtown Greenway, 500 N Eugene St, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Friday, May 16
5:30-7:30 pm
Downtown Greenway | LoFi Park
JUST ONE DAY BEFORE OUR BOOK FESTIVAL!!! Make it a book-lovers WEEKEND!
Looking to make friends in town? Want a way to connect with fellow book lovers? Join the Downtown Greenway for Speed Friending: Book Lovers Edition to expand your social circle! Designed to spark creative conversations and reduce the anxiety of talking with strangers, come see how good conversations and possible friendships are just a simple “hey” – and a question away.
Participants will sign-up for a 30-minute time slot, and be given 5 minutes to chat with another person, with the help of fun and casual icebreaker questions provided to help get conversations flowing. After a few rounds of meeting people, you can then stay after to mingle some more, and enjoy live music and a food truck at Joymongers Brewing Co. next door.
Registration NOW OPEN! – Click Here.

2025 Greensboro Bound Book Festival
2025-05-17
OUR ALL DAY FESTIVAL IS SATURDAY, MAY 17.
We’ll be exploring themes of family, the many meanings of home, and the past as prologue. We’ll have some serious fun with Taylor Swift songs, flesh out the best obituary ever written, and take a look at how N.C. became a purple state.

What happens when a child of the Great Migration starts nosing around Alabama for his roots?
How can I get published as successfully as a certain local legend and sportswriter?
What does poetry have to tell us about today’s anxious existence?

Again, we’ll showcases our High School Poet Laureates, and welcome children’s authors who have supported our Authors Engaging Students program.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL SCHEDULE OF AUTHOR EVENTS!

Reshaping the Divide: An Evening with Cristina Henríquez
2025-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Join us for a compelling evening with New York Times best-selling author Cristina Henríquez as we close out this year’s Greensboro Bound Book Festival with a powerful, thought-provoking discussion. While the festival takes place May 17, this culminating event on May 28 offers one final opportunity to gather in celebration of literature and storytelling.
Henríquez will discuss her latest novel, The Great Divide, a moving exploration of the people who lived, loved, and labored during the construction of the Panama Canal. She will also share her personal experience of “the divide within,” reflecting on her identity as both American and Panamanian and how her sense of self has evolved over time.
In conversation with Jodie Stanley, City of Greensboro’s International Support and Language Access Coordinator, Henríquez will delve into themes of culture, identity, community, and belonging.
Van Dyke Performance SpaceMay 28 at 7 PMFree & Open to the Public
This program is sponsored by Greensboro Public Library and the Greensboro Public Library Foundation, with community partners including Greensboro Bound and Creative Greensboro.

Mac Barnett: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
2025-10-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Harrison Auditorium, NC A&T, 1009 Bluford Street, Greenbsoro, NC, 27401
Mac Barnett: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Saturday, October 25 | 10:00 a.m.
Harrison Auditorium, N.C. A&T State University (1009 Bluford St., Greensboro)
Free Admission; Registration required (see below)
Award-winning author Mac Barnett is excited to share his passion for picture books with children and adults. The tradition of the picture book is a tradition of experimentation, just like childhood itself. Every page turn contains infinite possibilities – a journey of discovery and connections. On his nationwide tour as national ambassador, Mac invites readers of all ages to join him in celebrating what’s vibrant, joyful and inspiring about this quintessential American art form.
“What excites me is the living, thinking, feeling kid who exists right now and needs a good story. Magic is what happens at that moment in childhood.”
— Mac Barnett, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Each child in attendance will receive a free Mac Barnett book. Additional books will be available to purchase on site, and a signing will follow the event.
Presented in partnership with N.C. A&T State University, Greensboro Public Library, Scuppernong Books, the Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, and Ready for School, Ready for Life.

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"The Eyes of Bach" a novel by musician and author Marc Moskovitz
2025-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 | GreenHill Center for NC Art, 200 N DAVIE STREET, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Greensboro Bound, in partnership with Music for a Great Space and GreenHill Center for NC Art, presents cellist and author Marc Moskovitz.
Join us for an afternoon exploring “The Eyes of Bach” a novel by musician and author Marc Moskovitz. In this gripping novel, Moskovitz transports the reader into the milieu of 18th-century Europe-its cobblestone streets and music-filled churches. Based on true events and rich in musical and historical detail, The Eyes of Bach is a sweeping tale of one man’s unrelenting search for truth.
This event will feature a live performance of Bach’s music and a Q&A with the author.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 3:00-5:00 pm
at GreenHill Center for NC Art (2nd floor, Greensboro Cultural Center in downtown Greensboro)

Jason Mott: People Like Us
2025-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
Jason Mott: People Like UsThursday, November 13 | 6 PMScuppernong Books
Join National Book Award–winning author Jason Mott for an evening celebrating his latest novel, People Like Us.
In this bold follow-up to Hell of a Book, Mott continues to blur the lines between reality and imagination, crafting a story that’s equal parts gripping, funny, and profoundly human. People Like Us follows two Black writers grappling with a world mired in gun violence, one on a global book tour and the other speaking at a school after a shooting. Their paths cross and “truths and antics abound in equal measure.”
Don’t miss this chance to hear one of North Carolina’s most celebrated writers.
Presented in partnership with Scuppernong Books.

Book Festival Kickoff: Casey McQuiston
2026-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Elliott University Center Auditorium, 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
DAY 1: Casey McQuiston
Thursday, April 9, 2026
7:00 PM
Elliott University Center
Free and open to all
Regisration is required. Please click here to register.
Casey McQuiston will appear at the 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival, April 9–11, as part of American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices and stories.
The main festival takes place April 11, and we are thrilled to kick it off with a special event featuring #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston, presented in partnership with UNCG University Libraries. McQuiston will appear at the Elliott University Center on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
McQuiston is the author of Red, White & Royal Blue, One Last Stop, I Kissed Shara Wheeler, and The Pairing. Their sharp, funny, and heartfelt stories explore love, identity, and contemporary life, an essential piece of our American mosaic.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please click here to register.
