On Friday, October 27, acclaimed poet and 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellow Claudia Rankine will read from her prize-winning book Citizen: An American Lyric in the Gertrude C. Ford Recital Hall at Millsaps. A part of the Friday Forum series, the reading will begin at 12:50 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Lemuria Books will have copies […] Read more »
A movie featuring a very different sort of Jane Austen heroine will be the final installment in the 2017 Austen Film Series in the Welty Garden on Friday, October 20. “Love and Friendship” stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny and is based on Austen’s story Lady Susan. The garden will open at 5 p.m., the […] Read more »
Jennifer Egan will read from her highly anticipated new novel, Manhattan Beach, on Tuesday, October 10, at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center in a program co-sponsored by Lemuria Books. Egan will sign at 5 p.m. and read at 5:30. A reception will follow. “This is a novel that deserves to join the canon of New York stories,” […] Read more »