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The Sixth Annual Locust Grove Used Book Sale This Weekend

10. March 2010

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I love books, you love books. Locust Grove wants to help us find great used books for great prices this weekend at their annual Used Book Sale.
This is the Big Sale! More than 15,000 used, antiquarian, and new books in all categories will be offered for sale. Categories include history, biography, mysteries, reference, science [...]

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Kentucky Playwrights at Carmichael’s March 7, 2010

3. March 2010

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The first exposure to professional theater that I remember came at Horse Cave Theatre. My dad got tickets from his work and it was so exciting to go see a real play! Later it was where I first saw Shakespeare, my seventh grade (I think it was seventh grade anyway) class went there to see [...]

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Louisville’s Butchertown Book Giveaway

2. February 2010

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There’s a new book out called Louisville’s Butchertown and Broken Sidewalk did a really brilliant write-up of it yesterday. Go ahead and read it, I’ll wait.
Done? OK great. So now you know how cool the book is and lucky for you I’ve got two copies to give away. To be entered to win just [...]

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Out in the Country Author at Carmichael’s

15. September 2009

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Mary Gray the author of Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America will be speaking at Carmichael’s on Friday September 18, 2009. Oh I am bummed at the timing of this event because I would love to attend.
From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the Country
offers an [...]

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InKY Celebrates Going Back to School September 11, 2009

8. September 2009

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Everyone’s favorite reading series is back from summer vacation just in time. InKY’s back (and with a nice new website to boot!) and ready to welcome in the fall.
The InKY Reading Series is excited to welcome Kentucky writer Jim Tomlinson, who will read from his new collection of stories, Nothing Like an Ocean, on [...]

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Kids Story Time at A Reader’s Corner Saturday June 20, 2009

15. June 2009

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This Saturday at 11AM it’s Children’s Story Time at A Reader’s Corner bookstore in St. Matthews. What I like about this particular story time is that it features reading, refershments and a free book! I’m a fan both of snacks and free books so I consider this a superior story time for your kids to [...]

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Important News You Need Re: David Sedaris Coming to Town

22. May 2009

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Ready?
Line numbers for the David Sedaris book signing are available starting Monday June 1st (the signing itself is on June 21st). So be sure to stop in either Carmichael’s and get yours starting in June!

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Father, Son and a Motorcycle? Yes, at Carmichael’s May 21, 2009

19. May 2009

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I don’t know anything at all about motorcycles* or books about motorcycles (or books about motorcycle journeys) so I’m just going to let the Carmichael’s folks tell you about this Thursday night’s event themselves:
It’s bike night at Carmichael’s! We welcome University of Louisville
professor Matthew Biberman and his legendary Vincati motorcycle for a
talk on his [...]

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InKY Fiction Night Friday May 8, 2009

1. May 2009

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Our favorite reading series, InKY, is celebrating fiction next Friday night with an appearance by an incredibly talented Louisville native.
Louisville
native Tania
James is the author of Atlas
of Unknowns, her debut novel recently published by Alfred
Knopf.  
A
graduate of the Kentucky
Governor’s School for the Arts, she studied filmmaking at Harvard
University and received her MFA in fiction from [...]

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Consuming Louisville Class Participation (Volunteering & Books)

22. April 2009

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1. As you know I’m incredibly excited that Jefferson Memorial Forest won $5,000 in the Nature Valley contest. JFM totally won because you are so great and voted. I’d really love to continue the goodness by having a Consuming Louisville volunteer day at Jefferson Memorial Forest. We’ve done good by helping them receive the $5,000 [...]

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