Wednesday,
March 2 at 7 pm
ARIEL
LAWHON READING & SIGNING
Ariel
Lawhon’s new book, Flight of Dreams, is a historical novel set during
the doomed flight of the Hindenberg, which ended in a deadly crash after three
days. Ariel creates vibrant characters based on real passengers and weaves a
novel of mystery and “airborne intrigue,” according to Kirkus Reviews.
Filled with “clever banter, elaborate plot twists, and period detail” (Library
Journal), it’s a suspenseful read that brings history to life. Ariel is the
author of The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress and the cofounder of
SheReads.org.
Thursday,
March 3 at 7 pm
SOHO
PRESS CELEBRATION WITH LENE KAABERBØL AND AGNETE FRIIS
We will
be joined by two of the preeminent mystery writers published by imprint Soho
Press as they celebrate The Considerate Killer, the final installment in
their Nina Borg series that began with The Boy in the Suitcase.
This is the all-time bestselling series published by Soho, and it has been
praised for its “seamless weaving of psychological depth and rocket-paced
plotting” (Lisa Unger). NPR’s John Powers recognizes Nina Borg as belonging to
“the sisterhood of run-amok heroines like Homeland’s Carrie Mathison and
Lisbeth Salander.” The authors will be joined by the publisher, associate
publisher, and marketing and promotion director of Soho and we’ll be
celebrating with refreshments and other fun!
Friday,
March 4 at 7 pm
BRYAN
ROBINSON IN CONVERSATION WITH JOE D’AGNESE
Join us
to celebrate the paperback release of local mystery author Bryan Robinson’s Limestone
Gumption: A Brad Pope and Sisterfriends Mystery. In this fast-paced novel,
the idyllic town of Whitecross, FL, is shaken up after the murder of a cave
diver, and protagonist Brad Pope is the prime suspect. Filled with humor and
thrills, it’s “multigenerational with spunky oldsters…genial banter, and
colorful characters” (Library Journal). Joe D’Agnese, the local author
of Marshal of the Borgo, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, and
others, will be leading the lively discussion!
Saturday,
March 5 at 3 pm
V.E.
SCHWAB with guests JESSICA KHOURY, RYAN GRAUDIN, DELILAH DAWSON & BETH
REVIS
This
panel brings together some of the best voices in YA and adult fantasy and
speculative fiction as we celebrate the latest from V. E. Schwab. Schwab’s new
novel, A Darker Shade of Magic, is a fantasy set across universes that
follows the adventures of smuggler Kell and thief Lila as they search for a
mysterious “Black London.” It’s a “fast-paced adventure, with [a] complex magic
system, thoughtful hero and bold heroine” (Kirkus Reviews). Jessica
Khoury’s The Forbidden Wish is a YA reimagining of Aladdin, Ryan
Graudin’s Wolf by Wolf tells the story of shape-shifter Yael, and
Delilah Dawson’s recent books Servants of the Storm and Hit
feature Savannah teens dealing with demons and an indentured assassin.
Acclaimed YA author Beth Revis will moderate the discussion. Beth Revis, author
of Paper Hearts and the Across the Universe series, will moderate.
Saturday,
March 5 at 6 pm
THE GIRL
WHO RACED FAIRYLAND ALL THE WAY HOME LAUNCH PARTY
Our day
of fantasy continues as we welcome back one of our favorite authors to
host—Catherynne Valente! Catherynne is celebrating the release of The Girl
Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home, the fifth in her magical Fairyland
series. The book follows protagonist September, who has been crowned Queen
of Fairyland, as she strives to save a kingdom thrown into chaos. Neil Gaiman
raves that the series is “a glorious balancing act between Modernism and the
Victorian fairy tale,” and Kirkus Reviews notes that “readers may wish
the words were food, so they could eat them up.” Please join us for games,
treats, and fairy fun at 6 pm, followed by the reading and signing at 7 pm.
Prepare to enter Fairyland and feel free to come in costume!
Sunday,
March 6 at 11 am
CYNTHIA
SURRISI LAUNCH PARTY & SIGNING
Local
author Cynthia Surrisi will be here to celebrate her new middle grade book, The
Maypop Kidnapping. The novel introduces us to the clever, curious Quinnie
Boyd, who is convinced that her tutor in the small town of Maiden Rock, Maine,
has been kidnapped when she doesn’t show up on the first day of school. Quinnie
goes on a quest to find the missing Ms. Stillford with the help of a cast of
charming characters, including her crush Ben, the cosmopolitan Mariella, and a
host of other eccentric and amusing new friends. Kirkus Reviews praises
the book as “a delightful cozy mystery, snugly mixing intrigue and humor, with
an unpredictable and satisfying resolution.”
Sunday,
March 6 at 3 pm
POETRIO
Join us
for our monthly series of readings and signings by 3 poets at 3 pm! This month
will feature Adrian Rice (Hickory Station), Vievee Francis (Forest
Primeval), and Jonathan K. Rice (Killing Time).
Monday,
March 7 at 7 pm
TRAVIS
MULHAUSER READING & SIGNING
Travis
Mulhauser will share his novel Sweetgirl, a bitter, poignant, and
humorous coming-of-age novel that follows the spirited teenage narrator Percy
James as she searches for her missing mother in the drug-filled town of Shelton
Potter, Michigan. She finds, instead, a neglected baby girl that needs her
help. But to save the baby and herself, she has to enlist a cast of characters
who must face their own tragedies and find redemption. Booklist praises
the novel as “an acute study of lives lived at the margins,” and Ron Rash notes
that the book is “a gritty, compelling novel…Mulhauser depicts his people and
their landscape with uncompromising fidelity.”
Wednesday,
March 9 at 7 pm
TEGAN
WREN AND SAMANTHA BRYANT READING & SIGNING
March is
Women’s History Month! Join us for a night with two authors tackling women’s
issues. Tegan Wren will discuss her book Inconceivable!, which
follows the courtship and marriage of brassy journalist heroine Hatty and her
love, the royal Prince John. Ever Upward calls it a “romantic novel with
a heartbreakingly real infertility twist.” Samantha Bryant will share Going
Through the Change, a humorous look at menopause in the vein of a superhero
story. After four women encounter a mad scientist, their menopausal experiences
become very strange indeed as one acquires the ability to fly, another becomes
fire-proof, and a third becomes a man. Author Brian Rush praises the novel’s
“superior characterization and concept.”
Thursday,
March 10 at 6:30 pm
ZELDA
FITZGERALD DAY
In
conjunction with Aurora Studio & Gallery, Malaprop’s is celebrating our
first annual Zelda Fitzgerald Day! We are commemorating the iconic Zelda
Fitzgerald, her legendary life, and her connection to Asheville with readings
and more. Stay tuned for details of this exciting event!
Friday,
March 11 at 7 pm
JIM
GRIMSLEY READING & SIGNING
Atlanta
author Jim Grimsley joins us to discuss How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the
Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood. This deeply affecting memoir traces
Jim’s early realizations that the beliefs passed down to him about racial
difference were deeply wrong. It’s also an examination of how ideas of race
have evolved since de-segregation, and a searing look at just how far we have
to go. “Layer by layer, young Grimsley sheds his deepest beliefs, prime among
them that white skin bestows superiority . . . A must-read book” (The
Charlotte Observer ). Jim is the author of four previous novels, including Winter
Birds, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist.
Saturday,
March 12 at 7 pm
BRYCE
PALMYRA DISCUSSION & SIGNING
In Things
to Bring My Family When I Die: A Go-To Guide for the Southern Chef, teen
author Bryce Palmyra offers a hilarious, upbeat, and poignant cookbook for
making funeral food. The recipes are easy and delicious and the writing is
highly entertaining and Bryce is recognized as the best teen chef in his
hometown in Avery County. Bryce donates a portion of sales to the charity Hopes
Makes a Difference.
Sunday,
March 13 at 3 pm
MATT
CASHION READING & SIGNING
Matt
Cashion’s new book, Last Words of the Holy Ghost, a recipient of the
2015 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction, is a compilation of twelve
short stories that follow a cast of dynamic, genuine characters. “A sublime
collection that uses compassion and subtle humor to capture heavy moments in
lives lived on the margins” (Kirkus Reviews). Informed by the Southern
Gothic genre and by the kaleidoscope of human experience, it’s a moving book
that’s gathering praise from every corner. Matt grew up in North Carolina and
Georgia and now makes his home in Wisconsin.
Monday,
March 14 at 7 pm
ANNIE
NOVAK DISCUSSION & SIGNING
Annie
Novak joins us to discuss her book The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to
Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm. Annie, who is the
founder of the first commercial green roof row farm (Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
in Brooklyn) brings her practical, easy, and stylish advice to new urban
gardeners, walking readers through soil maintenance, watering, crop management,
and landscaping. Annie is also the manager of the Edible Academy at the New
York Botanical Garden, as well as the founder and director of Growing Chefs,
which, according to their website, offers “food education from field to fork”
that “connect[s] people
to food, from the soil to the kitchen.”
Wednesday, March 16
at 7 pm
MELISSA BURCH READING
& SIGNING
We are excited to
host an event with Melissa Burch, whose memoir, My Journey Through War and
Peace, tells the tremendous story of her experiences as a documentary
filmmaker in Afghanistan and the former Soviet Union during times of extreme
sociocultural shifts. The book details not only the story of these places, but
also of Melissa’s own growth and self-discovery (she was only 20 when she went
to Afghanistan to film the Mujahideen) as she began the path of a personal and
spiritual revolution. Kirkus Reviews raves that she writes “with
sensitivity and vivid clarity about her evolving self” in this “absorbing,
well-written memoir by a brave adventurer who discovered her own life.” Melissa
has worked as a filmmaker, writer, editor, producer, and journalist for the
BBC, CNN, and other news networks.
Thursday, March 17 at
7 pm
DANA CARPENTER AND
ERICA WRIGHT DISCUSSION & SIGNING
This double-author
event features Dana Carpenter, author of Bohemian Gospel, and Erica
Wright, author of The Granite Moth. Dana’s book is a gripping
fantasy-historical novel set in 13th-century Bohemia. Kirkus
Reviews says it “does a great job of interweaving history with mythology
and the supernatural” and “brings the Dark Ages to strange and bewitching life”
through its tale of the magically gifted young heroine, Mouse. Erica will
discuss her second novel, a mystery that follows private investigator Kathleen
Stone as she tries to unravel the sinister goings-on surrounding the deaths of
several of New York City’s drag queens. Jim Fusilli praises the book as “a gift
to devotees of classical private-eye novels as well as to contemporary crime
fiction.”
Friday, March 18 at 7
pm
NICOLE SARROCCO
READING & SIGNING
NC author
Nicole Sarrocco brings her newest book, Ill-Mannered Ghosts, to
Malaprop’s! The second in her series of “Occasionally True Novels,” the work
continues Nicole’s narrative exploration of “finding grace in chaos, creating
meaning from nonsense, and for heaven’s sake not making too much of a spectacle
of yourself” (Chatwin Press). All of the three books in this series were
written by Nicole during National Novel Writing Month! Nicole teaches
Humanities at NCSSM and she is the author of Lit by Lightning and the
poetry collection Karate Bride.
Saturday,
March 19 at 7 pm
BRIAN
FREEMAN READING & SIGNING
Suspense
novelist Brian Freeman brings us his thrilling Goodbye to the Dead, the
tale of Detective Jonathan Stride and his lover, Serena Dial, who must battle
the living and the dead to connect the dots between two seemingly unrelated
murder cases. Brian is a recipient of a Macavity Award, and his book Spilled
Blood won Best Hardcover Novel in the annual Thriller Awards. His work has
been praised for its “scorching suspense” (The Star Tribune).
Sunday,
March 20 at 3 pm
WRITERS
AT HOME READING SERIES
Join host
Tommy Hays for the monthly reading series featuring work from UNCA’s Great
Smokies
Writing Program and The Great Smokies Review.
Monday, March 21 at 7
pm
WRITER’S
COFFEEHOUSE WITH JAKE BIBLE
Join us
from 7-9 pm for the Asheville/WNC Writers Coffeehouse, a monthly meeting where
area writers come together to discuss the business of writing, gather shared
knowledge, and network. The meeting is open to writers of all experience
levels, whether you’re a New York Times-bestselling author or someone
just thinking about picking up a pen and putting it to paper. Come and spend
time with like-minded people that love the art and business of writing.
Tuesday,
March 22 at 7 pm
LIBBY
WARE READING & SIGNING
Libby
Ware celebrates her debut novel, Lum, which just won the ALA Stonewall
Book Award. Set against the historical events of the Great Depression and
the Blue Ridge Parkway’s construction, it’s the story of intersex Lum, whose
struggles to find a home with family and in the larger world are set down in
this “startlingly good debut novel” (Atlanta Magazine). Author Ann Hite
celebrates Libby’s “rich new southern voice [that] capture[s] the dying art of
storytelling.” Libby grew up in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains. She owns
Toadlily Books in Atlanta, which specializes in antiquarian texts.
Wednesday,
March 23 at 7 pm
ERIK LARSON
IN CONVERSATION WITH DENISE KIERNAN TICKETED EVENT
Known for
his compelling narrative nonfiction like Devil in the White City and In
the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson will discuss his seventh book, Dead
Wake. The book, which reconstructs the final voyage of the Lusitania,
is, according to Booklist, an engrossing “grade-A thriller.” Erik tells
the story of the ship and its passengers in “extraordinarly compelling prose”
that also gives an accurate picture of historical events (Shelf Awareness).
He will discuss the book, his research, and more with Asheville’s own Denise
Kiernan, author of The Girls of Atomic City. The $17 ticket includes a
paperback copy of Dead Wake. This event is co-sponsored by UNCA’s Great
Smokies Writing Program and will take place at UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall.
Thursday,
March 24 at 7 pm
WHO’S
AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? PRE-PERFORMANCE WARM-UP
In
preparation for The Immediate Theater Project and NC Stage’s production of Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee, Malaprop’s is excited to host a
night of lively banter, food, and festivities! We will be joined by Willie
Repoley and Hans Meyer of The Immediate Theater Project, and other guests TBD,
as they discuss the play and bringing the page to the stage.
Tuesday,
March 29 at 7 pm
MATTHEW
GRIFFIN READING & SIGNING
Hide is
Matthew Griffin’s powerful debut novel of gay identity in a North Carolina mill
town after the end of WWII. The story of Wendell Wilson and his partner, WWII
veteran Frank Clifton, it tracks their lives after Frank suffers a stroke and
Wendell must assume the role of caretaker in a society that forces them into
secrecy. According to Booklist, it’s a “bittersweet portrait of love in
the shadows.” Kirkus Reviews praises it as “deliberately paced,
thoughtful . . . assured . . . [and] genuine.” Matthew grew up in North
Carolina and teaches at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is also
the Director of Community Support and Evangelism at Adafruit Industries.
Wednesday,
March 30 at 7 pm
KEITH
MORRIS READING & SIGNING
In Keith Morris’s latest novel, Travelers Rest, a family
encounters the strange town of Good Night, Id., where they may be trapped
forever if they fail to navigate the uncanny setting. Kirkus Reviews calls
it “Alice in Wonderland meets The Shining . . . [a] weighty,
suspenseful, and even witful [novel].” Booklist praises the story as
“generat[ing] some genuine chills . . . [the] writing is what makes the story
really scary.” Keith is the author of The Greyhound God and The Dart
League King and was a recipient of the Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction. He
teaches creative writing at Clemson University.
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