Friendly City Books is happy to announce our participation in the 11th Anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day!

Fant Memorial Library, on the Mississippi University for Women campus, will hose a series of Book Talks during the Spring 2024 Semester. The I.D.E.A. committee has selected Jesmyn Ward’s Let us Descend as the focus of the spring series. The group meets the last Wednesday of the month in the Gunter Multipurpose Room of Fant Library. The Book Talks are free and Open to the Public.

Our monthly sale for Frequent Flyers. 20% off books in-store, plus other great goodies!

Join us in Downtown Columbus for an afternoon of spirited fun at the Stella Shouting Contest, held in honor of the great Tennessee Williams, who was born right here in Columbus. This event celebrates the iconic scene from A Streetcar Named Desire and invites participants to channel their best Stanley or Stella.

Join photojournalist and author Kate Medley as she shares stories and images from her book Thank Your Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South on Thursday, April 4th at 4:00 p.m. in the Omnova Theater of the Columbus Arts Council.

Friendly City Books celebrates the publication of COLD WAR COUNTRY, an exciting history of country music by Mississippi State University assistant professor of history Joseph Thompson. Join us April 2nd at 6:00 p.m. for a reading and country music trivia at Munson & Brothers Trading Post in Columbus.

Fant Memorial Library, on the Mississippi University for Women campus, will hose a series of Book Talks during the Spring 2024 Semester. The I.D.E.A. committee has selected Jesmyn Ward’s Let us Descend as the focus of the spring series. The group meets the last Wednesday of the month in the Gunter Multipurpose Room of Fant Library. The Book Talks are free and Open to the Public.

Join Rooted Magazine editor Lauren Rhodes for a live discussion of the Book Club selection for March: The Weeds, by Katy Simpson Smith. The Rooted Book Club meets on Zoom at the each month to discuss a book from a Mississippi author.

Our monthly sale for Frequent Flyers. 20% off books in-store, plus other great goodies!

In an exciting event for literature lovers, Gerry Wilson, a distinguished voice in Mississippi’s literary scene, will delve into her captivating first novel, That Pinson Girl, in a special appearance at the Columbus Lowndes Public Library. Wilson will be in conversation with fellow Mississippi author Ellen Ann Fentress on March 11 at Noon, at the Downtown branch of the Columbus Lowndes Public Library.

Writer-in-Residence Kwame Dawes will give a public reading, answer questions, and sign books in this free event open to everyone.

Mississippi State University Institute for the Humanities hosts Writer-in-Residence Kwame Dawes for a virtual writing workshop.

Fant Memorial Library, on the Mississippi University for Women campus, will hose a series of Book Talks during the Spring 2024 Semester. The I.D.E.A. committee has selected Jesmyn Ward’s Let us Descend as the focus of the spring series. The group meets the last Wednesday of the month in the Gunter Multipurpose Room of Fant Library. The Book Talks are free and Open to the Public.

Our next book club pick is Tyriek White’s We Are a Haunting, a stunning, lyrical debut novel, and the winner of The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. We will be talking with Tyriek on Tuesday February 27 at 7 p.m. CST.

The City of Columbus welcomes author Berkley Hudson to discuss the history of Black Columbus residents as photographed by O.N. Pruitt. This event will be held February 26, at 4:00 p.m. in the Columbus City Hall Reception Room. Berkley Hudson, an emeritus associate professor of media history and the author of “O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town,” which highlights images capturing the essence of life in Columbus, Mississippi, throughout the mid-20th Century.

Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of In The Pines, joins Ralph Eubanks for a discussion on her award winning book. The event is sponsored by the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation, the Columbus Arts Council, and the Mississippi State University Department of History.

Historian and author Steven Cox will present “John T. Wilder: Union General, Southern Industrialist” on Thursday, February 22 at 12 noon in the Meeting Room of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System (CLPLS).

Our monthly sale for Frequent Flyers. 20% off books in-store, plus other great goodies!

Mississippi Poet Hannah V Warren is hosting a virtual reading from her debut collection Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales.

Fant Memorial Library, on the Mississippi University for Women campus, will hose a series of Book Talks during the Spring 2024 Semester. The I.D.E.A. committee has selected Jesmyn Ward’s Let us Descend as the focus of the spring series. The group meets the last Wednesday of the month in the Gunter Multipurpose Room of Fant Library. The Book Talks are free and Open to the Public.

The Rooted Book Club will be a celebration of Southern writers and readers. A partnership between Rooted, the Mississippi Book Festival, Lemuria Books, and Friendly City Books, we’ll be reading works of fiction and nonfiction about the South and/or by an author with a deep connection to the South.

Join us on January 15th at Columbus City Hall for a historic and reflective public reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." This event, organized by Mayor Keith Gaskin, The City of Columbus, and the Friendly City Books Community Connection, promises to be a moving tribute to the legacy of Dr. King and his enduring impact on civil rights and social justice.